Load-testing-Socket With Artillery !!

After Git Clone follow The Step's

cd Loadtesting-socket

npm install 

npm start (this will start the server for chat application your can listen the app on Localhost:8080)

Open New Terminal And move To Load-test Folder

cd load-test

There you Can Find Two Files in That Folder

custom.js (Contains Dummy Data Generator)

SocketTest.yaml (Contains Artillery code)

Options used in SocketTesting.yaml to configure test as per requirement !!

• target:- Used For Setting the Socket Address (ws/wss) Type !!

• Ensure:- Goes with to otpn max (fail if max response time exceeds 500ms) and maxErrorRate (fail if error rate exceeds 1%) !!

• transports:- Here We Set Protocol So Be Set ["websocket"] For testing Socket !!

• processor:- Here We Mention the File Name Where we Want tho load dynamic scenario !!

• phases:- in this Optn We Have duration (time test Run's in Milliseconds), arrivalRate (onStart the User we Have), rampTo (Will ramp Up User gradually), name (Name For That Phase) !!

• scenarios:- Here We Define The Flow For Test case !!

• engine:- we Set engine To 'socketio' !!

• flow:- Here we Set Whole Test Flow

• function (load function from custom.js Which get's Dummy Data)

• emit (Inside this we have Channel (Socket Channel) and Data (data to send in that event(channel)) otpn)

• think (do nothing for 5 seconds, then disconnect) !!

Command to Start Test

artillery run -o makeResult.json SocketTesting.yaml 

(-o option will write output for result into makeResult.json and save it to json Format)'

Once You Run test You Will Start Getting New User on localhost:8080 and The Load on socket will increase !!!

Refer this link to know more about artillery https://artillery.io/docs/guides/guides/ws-reference.html#Overview