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Details

Package ID

k6

Version

0.26.2

Downloads

2131

Website

https://k6.io/

Summary

A modern load testing tool for developers and testers in the DevOps era

Description

k6 is a developer centric open source load and performance regression testing tool for testing the performance of your cloud native backend infrastructure: APIs, microservices, serverless, containers and websites. It’s built to integrate well into your development workflow and CI/CD automation pipelines.

Features

• Scripting in Javascript ES2015/ES6 - with support for local and remote modules
• Checks and Thresholds - for goal-oriented, automation-friendly load testing
• Configuration options as code
• Appropriate metric statistics - including 90th, 95th and 99th percentiles on response times
• Custom metrics - for flexibility in what metrics gets collected during a test
• Protocol support - with support for HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and WebSockets out of the box
• TLS features: client certificates, configurable versions and ciphers
• Cookies - simple key-value session cookies and more advanced persistent cookies
• Crypto library - for implementing authentication/authorization protocols
• Session recording / HAR support - for converting a recorded user session (HAR file) to a load test.
• Convert JMeter tests - to make the switch from JMeter to k6 quicker and easier.
• Convert Postman collections - as a starting point for your test cases.

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