Locust Documentation

Everything you need to know about Locust

About locust

Locust is a scalable load testing framework written in Python

• Website: http://locust.io
• Source code: http://github.com/locustio/locust
• Twitter: @locustio

• What is Locust?
  • Features
  • Background
  • Authors
  • License
• Installation
  • Installing ZeroMQ
  • Installing Locust on Windows
  • Installing Locust on OS X
• Quick start
  • Example locustfile.py
  • Start Locust
  • Open up Locust’s web interface
• Writing a locustfile
  • The Locust class
  • TaskSet class
  • Making HTTP requests
  • Using the HTTP client
• Testing other systems using custom clients
  • Sample XML-RPC Locust client
• API
  • Locust class
  • HttpLocust class
  • TaskSet class
  • task decorator
  • HttpSession class
  • Response class
  • ResponseContextManager class
  • InterruptTaskSet Exception
  • Event hooks
• Extending Locust
  • Adding Web Routes
• Changelog
  • 0.7.1
  • 0.7
  • 0.6.2
  • 0.6.1
  • 0.6
  • 0.5.1
  • 0.5
  • 0.4