Performance Testing Using Locust 1.0

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Latest – Locust 1.0- Locust Development Environment

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Install Python

Lecture 3: Install Locust on Windows | Install Pycharm

Lecture 4: Create Locust Project in Pycharm | Run Example Script

Lecture 5: Create Locust environment on Linux

Chapter 2: Latest – Locust 1.0- Working with Basic Locust Script

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Create basic Locust Script | User class | wait_time | @task

Lecture 3: Add host attribute | HTTPUser class

Lecture 4: Locust inbuilt wait_time methods

Lecture 5: Multiple user classes | weight attribute

Lecture 6: Run options for commandline

Lecture 7: Running test in headless mode -define users, hatch rate ,time of run ,logfile

Lecture 8: Add on_start | on_stop methods

Lecture 9: Add test_start | test_stop methods

Chapter 3: Latest – Locust 1.0- Working with Tasks

Lecture 1: Declaring tasks with decorator | Define task weight

Lecture 2: Declaring tasks with tasks attribute | Define task weight

Lecture 3: Declaring Tasks inside TaskSet Class

Lecture 4: Sequential Tasksets

Lecture 5: Nested TaskSets

Lecture 6: self.Interrupt

Chapter 4: Latest – Locust 1.0 – Working with HTTP Requests

Lecture 1: HTTP GET request | client attribute | name request

Lecture 2: HTTP POST request

Lecture 3: Extract Response Data

Lecture 4: Verify Response with catch_response

Lecture 5: Assignment – Create Script for Complete Booking Flow

Lecture 6: Session Management

Lecture 7: Manage session using cookies

Lecture 8: Assignment – Cookie Handling

Lecture 9: Extract Data from Response Body

Lecture 10: Assignment – Complete Autoquote Workflow

Lecture 11: Assignment – Complete Agent Lookup Workflow

Lecture 12: Nested Tasks with HTTP requests

Lecture 13: Testing API- Working with JSON data

Lecture 14: Assignment – REST API Script – Complete Flow

Chapter 5: Load Testing Environment – Upgraded 1.0

Lecture 1: Parametrize test using external module

Lecture 2: Parametrize test using csv

Lecture 3: Assignment – Parametrize Borland Nested Task Script Using CSV

Lecture 4: Linear Vs Step Load Model

Lecture 5: Distributed Work Load – Intro , Single Machine, expect-workers

Lecture 6: Reading options from configuration file

Lecture 7: Make script OS independent with os module

Lecture 8: Logging

Lecture 9: Exit User / Test on Failure

Lecture 10: Locust Distributed Environment – Multiple machines

Lecture 11: Run Locust Test using Docker

Lecture 12: Locust with docker-compose

Chapter 6: Locust Web Monitor & Report Statistics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Run Test -Number of Users, Hatch Rate & Host

Lecture 3: Understand Statistics & Charts – Min,Max, Avg.,Median,Percentile

Lecture 4: Understand Statistics & Charts – RPS, Number of Users,Average Size

Lecture 5: Retrieve test statistics in CSV format

Chapter 7: Enhancing Locust Scripts

Lecture 1: Understanding Event Hooks

Lecture 2: Assignment- Print individual request data using event

Lecture 3: Assignment Solution .Bonus-Send data to csv

Lecture 4: Send data to InfluxDB using locust event & python InfluxDB client

Chapter 8: Using Custom Clients -Testing systems other than HTTP

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Modularization along with time & event wrapper

Lecture 3: Assignment- Create locust script for ftp protocol

Lecture 4: Assignment-Solution-FTP Client Locust Script