Awesome Tsung

A curated collection of resources covering all aspects of load testing using Tsung and related stuff: plugins, integrations, testing techniques, DevOps practices, etc.

Tsung is an open-source multi-protocol distributed load testing tool, developed in Erlang.

Contents

• Official Resources
• Getting Started
• Tutorials
• Distributed Testing
• Tools
  • Plugins
  • Configuration Management
  • Distributed
  • Wrappers
  • Miscellaneous
• Tips & Tricks
• Talks
• Reference Projects
• Community
• Related
  • Awesome Lists
  • Other

Official Resources

• Homepage
• Downloads
• Documentation
• Source code

Getting Started

• Load Testing using Tsung
• Test the Performance and Scalability of Your Web Applications with Tsung
• Tsung: Нагрузочное тестирование Web-приложений - Tsung: Load testing of web applications :ru:.
• Load Testing with Tsung: Pros & Cons
• Benchmarking Websites with ab and Tsung
• Installing and Initial setup of Tsung Load Testing CentOS

Tutorials

• Load Testing with Tsung Quick Start @ Canonical:
  • part 1
  • part 2
• Building a test setup for load testing with Tsung - Multiple IPs for using different sources and destinations for web requests.
• Building a Load Test with Tsung for a Login and Post Session with dynamic url-encoded variables - Blogpost covers a step-by-step instruction on how to build a load test for a Ruby on Rails app with a login and post session and dynamic variables with Tsung.
• Series about building a high-performance web cluster @ Stefanie Forrester:
  • part 1 - How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests.
  • part 2 - Tuning Nginx for Best Performance.
  • part 3 - Building a Load-Balancing Cluster with LVS.
• SAP Commerce Cloud Performance Testing Tools: Tsung - A practical walkthrough of using Tsung for high-volume SAP Commerce Cloud performance testing, including configuration, load phases, and result analysis.

Distributed Testing

• An introduction to distributed load testing with tsung
• Distributed load testing with Tsung
• Easy distributed load test with Tsung - Presentation @ Ngoc Dao.

Tools

Plugins

• Writing a Tsung plugin - A simple tutorial on writing a Tsung plugin from official documentation.
• Собственный плагин tsung - Creating custom Tsung plugin :ru:.
• tsung_ws - Tsung plugin for WebSockets.
• tsung-gis - Tsung module for load testing GIS systems.
• tsung_dns - DNS testing plugin for Tsung.

Configuration Management

• ansible-tsung - Ansible playbooks for Tsung deployment.
• puppet-tsung - Puppet module to install Tsung from source.
• tsung-helm-chart - Helm chart to deploy Tsung.
• tsung-pack - Tsung load testing toolkit.

Distributed

• tsung-in-swarm - Tsung distributed stress testing in Docker swarm.
• tsung-docker - Docker image to run Tsung distributed.
• tsung_rsh - Replace SSH tunnel for Tsung clusters.
• tsung-in-kubernetes - Running Tsung in Kubernetes.

Wrappers

• shang_tsung - A DSL and web wrapper for Tsung.

Miscellaneous

• curl2tsung - A simple utility to convert a curl request to Tsung's xml request.

Tips & Tricks

• tsung-tricks - Miscellanous tricks and modules to use with Tsung @ Rodolphe Quiédeville.

Talks

• Introduction to Load Testing with Tsung - Presentation for Erlang User Conference 2014 @ Radek Szymczyszyn.

Reference Projects

• Load Testing with Tsung - Slides for Scalable Internet Services (CS291A) course @ Bryce Boe.
• Load-testing a Rails app with Tsung on AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Materials for Scalable Internet Services (CS291A) course @ Justin Pearson.

Community

• tsung on Stack Overflow
• Tsung-users Archives 💀

Related

Awesome Lists

• Awesome Software Quality - A list of free software testing and verification resources.
• Awesome Testing - A curated list of testing resources.
• Awesome JMeter - Open-source load testing and performance measurement tool, written in Java.
• Awesome Gatling - Open-source load and performance testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty.
• Awesome k6 - Open-source, developer-centric performance monitoring and load testing solution.
• Awesome Locust - Open-source scalable load testing framework written in Python.

Other

• How They Load Test - A curated collection of publicly available resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.
• Load Testing Toolkit - Collection of open-source tools for debugging, benchmarking, load and stress testing your code or services.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
Please take a look at the CONTRIBUTING guidelines first.