Selenium Load Testing / Performance Testing

[Dnyaneshwar Wagh]

Hello,

Can we use the same Selenium functional test scripts for load testing. if yes How ? Is there any other tool in which we can use the selenium scripts for load / performance testing ?

Thanks and Regards,

Dnyaneshwar Wagh

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[MWQA]

Try robotframework with the Selenium2 and JMeter libraries 

[Praveen P]

Hi,

Technically 'yes' we can use Selenium test in a Load test (at least in LoadTest from MS Visual Studio).

But if the test scripts have lot of wait (or sleep) statements to perform something on the page, then these will not give a picture of how a test case is performing. So, usually UI Tests wont be included in performance testing.

If the test code does not have any wait statements, you can try executing them in Non-UI mode, like using a PhantomJS or a HTMLUnitDriver (headless browsers). These would be a better fit for load testing.

Other options that I know of is to use "Web Performance testing" in load test. This is also another way of testing the UI responsiveness w.r.to load.

If you want to know how to include Selenium test in load test, below is one way (C# and Visual Studio)

1. Write tests using MS Test framework

2. Use Selenium libraries to automate

3. Use LoadTest wizard to create a load test. Include the test method created above.

Link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn250793.aspx

Regards,

Praveen

[Dmitri T]

1. If you use Java client libraries and TestNG framework - you can use parallel functionality
2. Selenium Grid allows parallel execution 
3. Use Taurus tool which has Selenium support