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A collection of resources by the community, on (testing with) .
Contents
- Articles (#articles)
- Videos (#videos)
- Examples/Templates (#examplestemplates)
- Tools (#tools)
- CI/CD (#cicd)
- Extensions (#extensions)
- Related (#related)
Articles
- k6 Learn (https://github.com/grafana/k6-learn) - Explanation of the principles of load testing and practical examples for how to do it with k6.
- k6 OSS workshop (https://github.com/grafana/k6-oss-workshop) - A 2-3 hour k6 workshop with practical k6 examples using the QuickPizza demo app.
- Beginner's guide to load testing with k6 (https://link.medium.com/npI9sjDyyjb) - Introductory guide in several parts, helping you get started with k6.
- Distributed load testing with k6 (https://feryn.eu/speaking/distributed-load-testing-k6-confoo23/) - Thijs Feryn presents in ConFoo Montreal 2023.
- Load Testing with k6 (https://medium.com/@dan.ryan.emmons/qa-load-testing-with-k6-io-c11c2afced04) - Brief overview of features and capabilities of k6.
- Integrating k6 with Apache Kafka (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-apache-kafka) - Sending output from k6 to Apache Kafka.
- Test and visualize with InfluxDB, Grafana and K6 (https://medium.com/@naoko.reeves/load-test-with-k6-and-visualize-with-influxdb-and-grafana-c6097a6f6d0a) - Setting up load tests and visualizing them using grafana dashboards.
- Open source load testing tool review 2020 (https://k6.io/blog/comparing-best-open-source-load-testing-tools) - Detailed comparison of the most popular open source load testing tools.
- Load Testing Your API with Swagger/OpenAPI and k6 (https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-your-api-with-swagger-openapi-and-k6) - Generate k6 load test scripts from OpenAPI specifications.
- Load Testing Your API with Postman (https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-with-postman-collections/) - How to use Postman collections to load test your API.
- Load Testing & Black Friday capacity planning (https://medium.com/back-market-engineering/how-back-market-sres-prepared-for-black-friday-5f017f343408) - How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.
- Load Testing SQL Databases with k6 (https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-sql-databases-with-k6/) - How to use the xk6-sql extension to test SQL databases directly.
- Introducing TestRail in your K6 tests (https://dev.to/kwidera/introducing-testrail-in-you-k6-tests-eck) - Reporting k6 output to TestRail.
- Beautiful Load Testing With K6 and Docker Compose (https://medium.com/swlh/beautiful-load-testing-with-k6-and-docker-compose-4454edb3a2e3) - How to run load tests using the awesome combination of Docker Compose, K6, InfluxDB and
Grafana.
- Load Testing with Azure DevOps and k6 (https://medium.com/microsoftazure/load-testing-with-azure-devops-and-k6-839be039b68a) - How to setup Azure DevOps to perform automated load tests using k6, handleCallback, and JUnit.
- K6 — Custom Slack Integration: Metrics are the Magic of Tests (https://medium.com/geekculture/k6-custom-slack-integration-metrics-are-the-magic-of-tests-527aaf613595) - How to send k6 output results to Slack using the handleSummary
callback.
- Load testing with k6 (https://levelup.gitconnected.com/load-testing-with-k6-48488c7946bb) - Using k6 for load, soak, stress, spike and smoke testing.
- How to write three times fewer lines of code when doing load testing (https://dev.to/tarantool/how-to-write-three-times-fewer-lines-of-code-when-doing-load-testing-9lb) - Building a k6 extension in Go to test Tarantool.
- Load Testing. k6 + TypeScript + Azure DevOps (https://alex-klaus.com/load-test-k6-typescript-azure/)
- Performance testing with k6 (https://blog.shanelee.name/2021/12/15/performance-testing-with-k6/) - On API performance testing, with Open API and TypeScript.
- k6 introduces browser automation and Prometheus support in k6 OSS (https://grafana.com/blog/2021/11/24/k6-introduces-browser-automation-and-prometheus-support-in-k6-oss/) - From the Grafana blog: feature announcements at
ObservabilityCON 2021.
- Testing shift left observability with the Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, and k6 (https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/06/testing-shift-left-observability-with-the-grafana-stack-opentelemetry-and-k6/) - From the Grafana blog: a summary of
Executive Director of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, Vinodh Ravi's talk at ObservabilityCON 2021.
- Umbraco 9 - What a Performance! (https://moriyama.co.uk/about-us/news/blog-umbraco-9-what-a-performance/) - Test the performance of Umbraco v9 on Azure against Umbraco v8 and comparing Windows vs Linux.
- On maintaining a k6 codebase, Part 1 (https://filfreire.com/posts/k6_tricks_ep1) - Personal tips to maintain a challenging k6 load testing codebase.
- Distributed Load Testing With K6 (https://engineering.empathy.co/distributed-load-testing-with-k6/) - Setting up distributed execution with k6-operator and Argo workflows.
- Load testing with k6 and k8s (https://www.toucantoco.com/en/tech-blog/tech-blog/load-testing-with-k6-and-k8s) - The Toucan DevOps team explains why they chose k6 as their load testing tool and how they deploy it on k8s.
- CloudPosse's Load Testing Stack (https://github.com/cloudposse/load-testing) - Load testing stack using k6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
- Real-time stress:
AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda (https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/real-time-stress-anycable-k6-websockets-and-yabeda) - Evil Martians adding "real-time stress" with k6 and WebSockets.
- Scaling Confidently with the Load and Fault Team (https://robinhood.engineering/scaling-confidently-with-the-load-and-fault-team-122978333d9) - Robinhood on load testing a Kubernetes system with k6.
- Streamlining Performance Testing with K6 and ChatGPT (https://medium.com/@monish.correia/streamlining-performance-testing-with-k6-and-chatgpt-206c6c7db82b) - Monish Correia writes k6 tests using GitHub co-pilot.
Videos
- k6 YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/k6test)
- How to use k6 Cloud for load testing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncxCIuo5tUU&list=PLJdv3RhAQXNGkRCp7Q0k77n5jif4qjz2o) - A series of quick videos for getting started with k6 Cloud.
- Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsIgbqXbxM)
- From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Intro to using k6 load testing with the Grafana observability stack (https://grafana.com/go/observabilitycon/2021/k6-load-testing/)
- From Grafana ObservabilityCON: Building performance tests into your CI pipeline with k6 and Grafana, w/ Matthew Churcher, QA Engineer at Vonage (https://grafana.com/go/observabilitycon/2021/performance-testing-vonage/)
- EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Load Performance Testing with k6 (https://youtu.be/_ty40gSaaw8)
- Playlist - What others says about k6 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJdv3RhAQXNExTjuYN9ukawFHB7ucuejp)
- What is K6 & How to get started with k6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAq87eZ1w2U) - Tutorial using k6 Extensions for Observability by "Is it Observable?"
- Website Performance + Load Testing with K6 (k6.io) in 5 MINUTES! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brasMBAezJY) - Introductory overview of k6, showing how to create a test from a HAR file, by the DevOps Directive.
- Performance Testing your web app with k6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu1K2ZGJ_K4) - A walkthrough of the open-source load and performance regression testing tool, k6, and how to load test your APIs and websites, by Chris James.
- Application Load Testing with k6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQmItkazLOk) - Daniel Knittl-Frank @TechTalk Days 2021, Intro to k6.
- Performance testing: from zero to hero with k6 & Azure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6zYLX9qvM) - Jose Luis Latorre Millas at Cloud Summit 2021.
- AI-Powered K6 Testing: No Code, No Hassle, Just ChatGPT! 🦾🚀 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYyPduBqGM4) - In this video, Karthik K.K. demonstrates how ChatGPT can create k6 tests without writing a single line of code.
Examples/Templates
- k6 examples (https://k6.io/docs/examples/) - A list of common examples on the k6 documentation.
- k6 QuickPizza examples (https://github.com/grafana/quickpizza) - Web application used for demos and workshops with multiple k6 examples.
- k6-template-es6 (https://github.com/grafana/k6-template-es6) - Starter template using Webpack and Babel to enable ES6 features in k6 tests.
- k6-typescript-template (https://github.com/grafana/k6-template-typescript) - Starter template using Webpack bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.
- k6-rollup-example (https://github.com/grafana/k6-rollup-example) - Example using Rollup to bundle k6 tests.
- Jahmilli/k6-example (https://github.com/Jahmilli/k6-example) - Starter template using Vite (Rollup) bundler to write k6 tests in TypeScript.
- tom-miseur/k6-templates (https://github.com/tom-miseur/k6-templates/) - Opinionated starter templates for k6 projects.
- SwissLife-OSS/k6-multiscenario-template (https://github.com/SwissLife-OSS/K6-MultiScenario-template) - Use K6 to implement a Multi Scenario template.
- agilob/multiscenario-tests (https://b.agilob.net/programming/k6/multiscenario-tests/) - Running multiple scenarios at once.
- Im5tu/template-k6 (https://github.com/Im5tu/template-k6) - A K6 Performance Test Suite Template.
- mohsenny/k6-test-template (https://github.com/mohsenny/k6-test-template) - Load testing framework.
- kwidera/k6_framework (https://github.com/kwidera/k6_framework) - Another k6 framework example.
- Sahanipe/pet_store (https://github.com/Sahanipe/pet_store) - Modularized scripts for the Swagger PetStore APIs.
- lreimer/continuous-k6k8s (https://github.com/lreimer/continuous-k6k8s) - Continuously run k6 tests in Kubernetes using cronjobs.
- luketn/docker-k6-grafana-influxdb (https://github.com/luketn/docker-k6-grafana-influxdb) - Demonstrates how to run load tests with containerised instances of K6, Grafana and InfluxDB.
Tools
- k6-to-junit (https://github.com/Mattihew/k6-to-junit) - Tool for converting k6 output to JUnit XML for easy use with CIs.
- k6-reporter (https://github.com/benc-uk/k6-reporter) - Tool for converting k6 output to HTML reports.
- k6-html-reporter (https://github.com/szboynono/k6-html-reporter) - Tool for generating k6 HTML reports.
- har-to-k6 (https://github.com/grafana/har-to-k6) - Tool for converting HAR recordings to k6 test scripts.
- postman-to-k6 (https://github.com/grafana/postman-to-k6) - Tool for converting Postman collections to k6 test scripts.
- k6 generator (https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator) - Tool for converting Swagger/OpenAPI specifications to k6 test scripts.
- jmeter-to-k6 (https://github.com/grafana/jmeter-to-k6) - Tool for converting JMeter test cases to k6 test scripts.
- jslib.k6.io (https://jslib.k6.io/) - Useful utility libs for k6 scripts.
- k6 for visual studio code (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=k6.k6&ssr=false#overview) - Marketplace Extension for running k6 directly from your IDE.
- k6 for IntelliJ (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16141-k6) - IntelliJ-based Plugin to run k6 tests locally or in the k6 Cloud (https://app.k6.io/) from your IntelliJ IDE.
- k6 Testkube executor (https://kubeshop.github.io/testkube/executor-k6/)
- k6-junit (https://github.com/simbadltd/k6-junit) - k6 JUnit summary exporter libray.
- k6-expect (https://github.com/simbadltd/k6-expect) - k6 library that simplifies writing tests in a functional way by providing a jest-like syntax for expectations.
CI/CD
- k6 for AWS CodeBuild (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-aws-codebuild/)
- k6 for Azure Pipelines (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-azure-pipelines/)
- k6 for Bamboo (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-bamboo/)
- k6 for Buddy (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-buddy-devops/)
- k6 for CircleCI (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-circleci/)
- k6 for Flagger (https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/28/deployment-time-testing-with-grafana-k6-and-flagger/)
- k6 for GitHub Actions (https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-using-github-actions/)
- k6 for GitLab (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-gitlab/)
- k6 for Google Cloud Build (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-k6-with-google-cloud-build/)
- k6 for Jenkins (https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-jenkins/)
- k6 for Keptn (https://k6.io/blog/performance-testing-in-keptn-using-k6/)
- k6 for TeamCity (https://k6.io/blog/load-testing-using-teamcity-and-k6/)
Extensions
- k6 Extensions (https://k6.io/docs/extensions/)
- GitHub Topic: xk6 (https://github.com/topics/xk6) - Explore k6 extensions tagged with the xk6 label.
Related
- How They Load Test (https://github.com/aliesbelik/how-they-load) - A collection of resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.
- Load Testing Toolkit (https://github.com/aliesbelik/load-testing-toolkit) - A collection of open-source tools for debugging, benchmarking, load and stress testing your code or services.
- awesome-http-benchmark (https://github.com/denji/awesome-http-benchmark) - A collection of HTTP benchmark tools, testing/debugging, & restAPI (RESTful).
Contributing
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