Example artillery load testing file

load.yml

config:
  plugins:
    expect: {} # this plugin allows for assertions: https://artillery.io/docs/guides/plugins/plugin-expectations-assertions.html
  ensure:
    p95: 1000 # ensure latency is equal to or under 1000ms
    maxErrorRate: 0 # no percentage of error rate i.e. no errors or pipeline fails
  payload:
    path: "./data/data.csv" # pull in the employee data csv
    fields:
      - "id"
      - "firstName"
      - "surname"
      - "age"
    order: random # this can be random or sequence
    skipHeader: true # skip header as this has the column headers
    delimeter: ","
    cast: true
    skipEmptyLines: true
  environments:
    # smoke testing
    smoke-develop:
      target: "https://qyadeekob5.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/develop" # in reality these would be your domain name targets
      phases:
        - duration: 1 # duration of the load test scenario
          arrivalRate: 1 # one active user x seconds in duration
          maxVusers: 1 # max number of virtual users to be created
    # load testing below
    develop:
      target: "https://qyadeekob5.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/develop" # in reality these would be your domain name targets
      phases:
        - duration: 10
          arrivalRate: 1
          maxVusers: 1
    qa:
      target: "https://qa.something.co.uk/api" # in reality these would be your domain name targets
      phases:
        - duration: 60
          arrivalRate: 10
          maxVusers: 10
    staging:
      target: "https://stage.something.co.uk/api" # in reality these would be your domain name targets
      phases:
        - duration: 300
          arrivalRate: 10
          maxVusers: 50
    production:
      target: "https://something.co.uk/api" # in reality these would be your domain name targets
      phases:
        - duration: 300
          arrivalRate: 10
          maxVusers: 50
scenarios:
  - flow:
      - log: "New virtual user running" # you can log using the following example
      # create the employee and assert the response
      - post:
          url: "/employees"
          json:
            id: "{{ id }}"
            firstName: "{{ firstName }}"
            surname: "{{ surname }}"
            age: "{{ age }}"
          expect:
            - statusCode: 201 # ensure the correct status code is returned
            - contentType: application/json # ensure that the correct contentType is returned
            - matchesRegexp: Created # ensure the created response is on the returned body
            - hasHeader: "content-type" # ensure it has the correct headers returned
      # get the employee which has just been created and assert the response
      - get:
          url: "/employees/{{ id }}"
          capture:
            - json: "$.fullName"
              as: fullName
          expect:
            - statusCode: 200
            - contentType: application/json
            - hasHeader: "content-type"
            - hasProperty: surname # ensure that all of the properties are present on the response
            - hasProperty: firstName
            - hasProperty: age
            - hasProperty: id
            - hasProperty: created
            - hasProperty: fullName
            - equals:
                - "{{ fullName }}"
                - "{{ firstName }} {{surname}}" # test to ensure that the fullname concat is working