High Availability Performance Testing

Load testing is an important part of ensuring that the CAS server deployment is ready for prime time production use. This page outlines a number of strategies and tools you may use to run performance tests on your deployment and observe results.

Locust

Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. It is intended for load-testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle. See this guide for more info.

Setup

A fundamental feature of Locust is that you describe all your tests in Python code. No need for clunky UIs or bloated XML, just plain code. For this to work, you will need to download Python. Next download the Locust test suite from here and configure a virtual environment to install modules:

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv mylocustenv/

# Use `requirements.py3.txt` for Python 3.x
pip install -r requirements.txt

Install Locust via the following:

pip install locustio

Create a credentials.csv file that contains username,password entries used for load tests.

echo casuser,Mellon > cas5/credentials.csv

Run the script as such:

locust -f cas5/locustfile.py --host=https://cas.example.org
...
[2017-05-02 16:31:49,742] test/INFO/locust.main: Starting web monitor at *:8089
[2017-05-02 16:31:49,744] test/INFO/locust.main: Starting Locust 0.8a2

Navigate to http://localhost:8089 and proceed with starting the test swarm.