Load Testing MVC

Problem to solve

We want to add Load Testing to our ~"performance testing" category as part of ~"Product Vision 2019". This issue will define the MVC for that.

Target audience

• Delaney, Development Team Lead, https://design.gitlab.com/research/personas#persona-delaney

• Devon, DevOps Engineer, https://design.gitlab.com/research/personas#persona-devon

Further details

This will contribute to our vision by helping to advance ~"performance testing" from minimal to viable.

Proposal

Using an open source library, enable load testing against a given URL or set of URLs just as we did with sitespeed.io for speed testing.

Possible Libraries

Golang

Library	⭐ s	Notes
https://k6.io/	4,719	uses APGLv3 . should be okay in CI
https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta	10,608
https://github.com/rakyll/hey	4,911	formerly known as rakyll/boom

Other

Library	⭐ s	Language
Apache JMeter	A lot	Java
https://github.com/gatling/gatling	4,072	scala
https://github.com/locustio/locust	9,247	python

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

(Which leads to: in which enterprise tier should this feature go see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/pricing/#four-tiers )

Links / references