FunkLoad

FunkLoad project is a functional and load web tester, written in Python, whose main use cases are:

� Functional testing of web projects, and thus regression testing as well.
� Performance testing: by loading the web application and monitoring your servers it helps you to pinpoint bottlenecks, giving a detailed report of performance measurement.
� Load testing tool to expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, like volume testing or longevity testing.
� Stress testing tool to overwhelm the web application resources and test the application recoverability.
� Writing web agents by scripting any web repetitive task, like checking if a site is alive.

Features:

• Functional test are pure Python scripts using the pyUnit framework like normal unit test. Python enable complex scenarios to handle real world applications.
• Truly emulates a web browser (single-threaded) using Richard Jones' webunit:
• basic authentication support
• cookies support
• fetching css, javascript and images
• emulating a browser cache
• file upload and multipart/form-data submission
• https support
• Advanced test runner with many command-line options:
• set the target server url
• display the fetched page in real time in your browser
• debug mode
• green/red color mode
• Turn a functional test into a load test: just by invoking the bench runner you can identify scalability and performance problems.
• Detailed bench reports in ReST or HTML (and PDF via ps2pdf) containing:
• bench configuration
• tests, pages, requests stats and charts.
• 5 slowest requests
• servers cpu usage, load average, memory/swap usage and network traffic charts.
• http error summary list
• Easy test customization using a configuration file or command line options.
• Easy test creation using TestMaker / maxq recorder, so you can use your web browser and produce a FunkLoad test automatically.
• Provides web assertion helpers.
• Provides a funkload.CPSTestCase to ease Zope and Nuxeo CPS testing.
• Easy to install and use, see examples in the demo folder.

What is new in this release:

• The bench report charts has been enhanced using gnuplot 4.2, which makes FunkLoad easy to install on Red Hat or Mac OS.
• A new differential report is provided to be able to compare two bench reports.
• The proxy recorder and test runner now handle any kind of post content-type (like application/xml).
• A new demo for JBoss Seam Booking application provided.