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Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are plenty of tools to test your web performance<\/strong>, each of them have their pros and cons and besides that you probably will end up choosing whichever you already know and you feel more comfortable with.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post we would like to write about a tool we have recently known. That is Taurus<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Taurus?<\/span><\/h2>\n

I guess that we can define Taurus<\/strong> as a performance testing framework that is here to help you to write your performance tests scripts in a more user-friendly manner than the usual JMeter<\/strong> or Selenium<\/strong> scripts. This is done by creating a yaml file, which can be as simple or as complex as you want or need. You can even execute existing JMeter<\/strong> or Selenium<\/strong> scripts, so you can imagine how powerful your test can be.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s open source and it has been developed by the creators of Blazemeter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Browser plugin<\/span><\/h2>\n

There is the Blazemeter<\/strong> plugin which is available for Chrome and you can use it to record your browsing session. Press the button to start, and just navigate through your website so you can simulate this session in your tests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"record<\/p>\n

You can download the session as a jmeter or selenium script. And even as a taurus script so you don\u2019t need to write a line of code.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"export<\/p>\n

Installation<\/span><\/h2>\n

First of all, depending on your resources and tests requirements you can install Taurus<\/a> on your computer or on a server. There are multiple methods but we will show you the two we consider better.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are in a hurry or you just don\u2019t have another machine at your disposal, you can just use the Taurus<\/strong> Docker<\/strong> image.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, if you need to perform resource demanding tests or if you will need to run tests on a regular basis, you probably should install Taurus<\/strong> on a server in your favorite cloud provider. In this case I would recommend to use the repository instead, since you will probably want to make the best use of your machine resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Docker install<\/span><\/h3>\n

As I said previously this would be my preferred method for my computer install. You probably have docker installed on your system so you just need to run:<\/span><\/p>\n

docker pull blazemeter\/taurus<\/span><\/pre>\n
Python packet manager<\/span><\/h3>\n
sudo apt-get update<\/span>\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install python3 default-jre-headless python3-tk python3-pip python3-dev <\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0libxml2-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev net-tools<\/span>\r\n\r\nsudo python3 -m pip install bzt<\/span><\/pre>\n
Performing the tests<\/span><\/h2>\n
Depending on the installation method you shall run either the command-line tool or docker to perform the tests.<\/span><\/p>\n