node-stress v0.1.0

node-stress

Light weight Node.js module to apply specified load on a REST API and retrieve the response statistics. I gives the counts of good,bad and errored responses along with the time taken to process them all.

Installation

npm install node-stress

Usage

var stress = require("./node-stress");

stress({
			
		host: 'rest.api.url',
		port: 80,
		path: '/getData.php?command=1'
		
		
	},RequestCount,function(data){
		
		console.log("Requests Sent : "+data.ReqStarted);
		
		if(data.response.GoodResponse)
			console.log("Good Response (200 OK) : ", data.response.GoodResponse);
			
		if(data.response.BadResponse)
			console.log("Bad Response : ", data.response.BadResponse);
			
		if(data.response.ErrorResponse) {
			console.log("Error Response : ", data.response.ErrorResponse);
			console.log(JSON.stringify(data.response.ErrorList,undefined,4));
		}
		console.log("Test Stats : "+data.fact);

});

Parameters

host - the url of the REST API after stripping down the starting http://. For more info check the input parameter for the node sample http request. port - port at which the REST API runs path - path to the page we are sending request

RequestCount - the load to be applied in number (eg:1000)