Baseline: Currently, within a Java environment and Maven integration, we use Cucumber for our API testing procedures inside Junit Test.
This is also well implemented and accordingly everything works.
However, we would now like to measure the respective speed of the APIs and thus the response times.
Also a further planning regarding load and performance testing for the simulation of load and performance is planned.
Example for the current state:
Feature: Test 1
Scenario Outline: Test 1
Given Retrieving Ingresses of Google Environment
Then response code should be <StatusCode>
Given <MS_NameAuth> MicroService<MS_RouteAuth> with path<MS_PathAuth>
When Template Request<RequestFileAuth>
When User send POST REST request for Creating User<UserName>
Then response code should be <StatusCode>
Then save response fields Using JsonUtility
| $.access_token | subjectToken |
Given <MicroService> MicroService <MS_Route> with path <MS_Path>
When User send GET request with additional Path<Path>
Then response code should be <StatusCode>
Then Validate response with expected JSON <JsonToCompare> with ignored values
Questions:
- Is there a direct way within a Junit test including Cucumber integration to do a direct measurement and simulation of load and performance?
- Is there any way to include Jmeter in Cucumber?
- Is there any other solution besides Jmeter that we could include as a step in Cucumber?
- Is it possible to measure individual APIs, e.g. response times?
- Would integration into a CI be possible?
What would be desirable:
A possibility of a solution that can be extended, at the beginning pure measurements of the response times of an API, but later also complex load and performance tests.
