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Convert Your Integration Tests To Load Tests

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Convert Your Integration Tests To Load Tests

May 31, 2021 · 4 min read

In this article, I want to cover the topic of how you can effectively reuse your integration tests and convert them to load tests to speed up your load test adoption.

This article will be useful for developers who use .NET platform to write integration tests that cover HTTP API, microservices.

Load testing adoption#

Nowadays, it is difficult to find a project that does not use integration tests, especially in building microservices or distributed systems, etc. In addition to this, some companies start adopting load testing and applying it as a must-have quality attribute. Honestly, load tests are still kind of exotic practice for most web projects, and usually, folks consider them a bit late. One of the main reasons is that the load tests require additional development and maintenance. It would be awesome to reduce time by converting our integration tests to load tests.

Converting integration tests to load tests#

Let's take a look at a simple integration test where a user tries to log in and buy a product. This test example is already a bit prepared for conversion to load test.

[<Fact>]
let ``logged user should be able to by product`` () = async {
let productId = "productId"
let userName = "userName"
let password = "password"
use httpClient = new HttpClient()
// Async<HttpResponseMessage>
let! loginResponse = httpClient |> UserOperations.login userName password
// string
let jwtToken = loginResponse |> parseJwtToken |> Result.getOk
// Async<HttpResponseMessage>
let! paymentResponse = httpClient |> UserOperations.buyProduct productId jwtToken
// Result<Payment,AppError>
let paymentResult = paymentResponse |> parsePaymentResult
test <@ Result.isOk paymentResult @>

To convert integration tests to load tests, we need to separate all business operations from test assertions to a separate module. After this, we can use the same business operation for load test and integration test. The main idea can be described as the following expression.

Business operations module#

The business operations module represents such operations as login, buy products.

As you may have noticed, all these operations are contained in a single UserOperations module, and each of its functions returns a standard HttpResponseMessage.

NBomber response type#

HttpResponseMessage is a well-suported type in .NET and a key thing here is that NBomber.Http contains a helper function that converts HttpResponseMessage to NBomber's Response type, and you can reuse such operations in your load tests. For C#, it works via extension method.

Load test#

Now let's see the final example of converting an integration test to a load test.

[<Fact>]
let ``load test operation - buy a product`` () =
let productId = "productId"
let userName = "userName"
let password = "password"
use httpClient = new HttpClient()
let login = Step.create("login_step", fun context -> task {
let! loginResponse = httpClient |> UserOperations.login userName password
return Response.ofHttp(loginResponse)
let buyProduct = Step.create("buy_product", fun context -> task {
let loginResponse = context.GetPreviousStepResponse<HttpResponseMessage>()
let jwtToken = loginResponse |> parseJwtToken |> Result.getOk
let! paymentResponse = httpClient |> UserOperations.buyProduct productId jwtToken
return Response.ofHttp(paymentResponse)
Scenario.create "buy_product_scenario" [login; buyProduct]
|> Scenario.withLoadSimulations [InjectPerSec(rate = 100, during = minutes 5)]
|> NBomberRunner.registerScenario
|> NBomberRunner.run
|> ignore
// here you can apply your assertions based on received stats

For a more realistic load test, you can leverage the power of the DataFeed and the ClientFactory. With these abstractions, you will be able to inject test data, configure your HttpClient, and so on.

Conclusion#

The ability to convert integration tests to load tests can significantly reduce your time on developing load tests. Also, I don't want to seem like a salesperson to you, so I want to dispel myths right away: this technique cannot completely replace writing your own load tests since you definitely will have some particular cases that require writing more advanced scenarios.


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