Drill – HTTP load testing application

Drill is a HTTP load testing application written in Rust. The main goal for this project is to build a really lightweight tool as alternative to other that require JVM and other stuff.

You can write benchmark files, in YAML format, describing all the stuff you want to test.

It was inspired by Ansible syntax because it is really easy to use and extend.

Features include:

• Concurrency: run your benchmarks choosing the number of concurrent iterations.
• Multi iterations: specify the number of iterations you want to run the benchmark.
• Ramp-up: specify the amount of time, in seconds, that it will take drill to start all iterations.
• Delay: introduce controlled delay between requests. Example: delay.yml
• Dynamic urls: execute requests with dynamic interpolations in the url, like /api/users/{{ item }}
• Dynamic headers: execute requests with dynamic headers. Example: headers.yml
• Interpolate environment variables: set environment variables, like /api/users/{{ EDITOR }}
• Executions: execute remote commands with test plan data.
• Assertions: assert values during the test plan. Example: iterations.yml
• Request dependencies: create dependencies between requests with assign and url interpolations.
• Split files: organize your benchmarks in multiple files and include them.
• CSV support: read CSV files and build N requests fill dynamic interpolations with CSV data.
• HTTP methods: build request with different http methods like GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, HEAD or DELETE.
• Cookie support: create benchmarks with sessions because cookies are propagates between requests.
• Stats: get nice statistics about all the requests. Example: cookies.yml
• Thresholds: compare the current benchmark performance against a stored one session and fail if a threshold is exceeded.
• Tags: specify test plan items by tags.

Website: github.com/fcsonline/drill
Support:
Developer: Ferran Basora
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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