Exposes a simple class based component to create a series of request based on a seed file

At the core we're using Python 3, and the libraries required for the script to work are:

• aiohttp - asynchronous http calls
• asyncio - event loop and async / await function support

If you have pip installed, you could install all dependencies by:

# install the dependencies

python3 -m pip install --user aiohttp
python3 -m pip install --user asyncio
python3 -m pip install --user matplotlib

If you just want to use it as a CLI, you have the following parameters available:

• inputfile - Indicates the file with all the URLs to hit
• lfrom - The start line number from the file (default to 0)
• lto - The the line number from the file (default to 9)
• wait - The time to wait in between the batches
• size - The requests to be sent per batch

Make sure you have a seed file that contains all the HTTP (get) requests to be made to stress the server

Then use the class HTTPLoadGenerator to configure the test, for example:

# configure the test
# set the requests per second (rps) to 10
# set the time to wait in between batches to 10 seconds
test = HTTPLoadGenerator(seed_file='/full/path/to/your/file',
  spare_time=10,
  rps=10
)

# start the test
test.start()

If you want to save the requests into a file, you can just:

test.save_results_to_file(filename='test-1.output')

This will save the file with a CSV style with the following information:

• request start - the time on which the request started (from the event loop)
• request id - the id of the request (in this case, followed sequentially)
• elapsed time - time that took for the request to finish
• response status - the HTTP response status retrieved for the given request