BMayhew / k6-demo

Demo for K6 with some helpful links in the readme

K6 Demo

Open API Spec 3 file - https://httpbin.test.k6.io/spec.json

https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-your-api-with-swagger-openapi-and-k6/#api-load-testing-with-swaggeropenapi-specification

# Pull the docker image to generate k5 scripts from the openapi spec
docker pull openapitools/openapi-generator-cli

# Generate the k6 scripts from the openapi spec
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/local openapitools/openapi-generator-cli generate \
    -i https://httpbin.test.k6.io/spec.json \
    -g k6 \
    -o /local/k6-test/ --skip-validate-spec

After running the above commands, you should see a k6-test I've committed it to the repo with no changes for reference.

API Docs: https://httpbin.test.k6.io/

Install

Follow the docs to complete the install for your system.

For macos brew install k6

Running Example Scripts

Runs with options passed in through CLI

k6 run --vus 10 --duration 30s script.js

Runs with no options in CLI

k6 run scriptWithOptions.js

Ability to run scripts locally, distributed, or in the cloud

https://k6.io/docs/get-started/running-k6/#execution-modes

K6 Resources

https://k6.io/docs/get-started/resources/

https://github.com/grafana/har-to-k6 https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-your-api-with-swagger-openapi-and-k6/ https://github.com/apideck-libraries/postman-to-k6

Browser testing with K6 - https://dev.to/yusuftayman/efficiently-tracking-frontend-performance-with-xk6-browser-and-slack-integration-37ab

K6 to Slack Reporter - https://medium.com/geekculture/k6-custom-slack-integration-metrics-are-the-magic-of-tests-527aaf613595