locustfile.py

# This locust test script example will simulate a user
# browsing the Locust documentation on http://docs.locust.io

import random
from locust import HttpLocust, TaskSet, task
from pyquery import PyQuery


class BrowseLinks(TaskSet):
    def on_start(self):
        # assume all users arrive at the index page
        self.index_page()
        self.urls_on_current_page = self.toc_urls

    @task(10)
    def index_page(self):
        r = self.client.get("/browse/")
        pq = PyQuery(r.content)
        link_elements = pq("a")
        self.toc_urls = [l.attrib["href"] for l in link_elements if 'href' in l.attrib]

    @task(50)
    def load_page(self):
        url = random.choice(self.toc_urls)
        r = self.client.get(url)
        pq = PyQuery(r.content)
        link_elements = pq("a")
        self.urls_on_current_page = [l.attrib["href"] for l in link_elements if 'href' in l.attrib]


class AwesomeUser(HttpLocust):
    task_set = BrowseLinks
    host = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"

    # we assume someone who is browsing the Locust docs,
    # generally has a quite long waiting time (between
    # 20 and 600 seconds), since there's a bunch of text
    # on each page
    min_wait = 1 * 1000
    max_wait = 5 * 1000