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[garybrowne]

Hello, What exactly is supposed to happen when I run this app? I coudn't find anything in the docs. I just get some output on the command line but that is it. Should a browser open or should I point a browser to a specific URL? I kind of expected some sort of report. I'm running it on Ubuntu 15.10. Thanks a lot, Gary

[kidk]

Hi Gary, thanks for your question. It's true I need to work on the documentation. The output you are getting are the statistics for each browser run. I'll try to add a report at the end, currently you can use other monitoring tools to check the impact of the load test run on your website/servers.

[garybrowne]

Thanks kidk, Ok, I can see from the verbose output like:

[{"action": "open_url", "value": "http://blah.com/"}, {"action": "set_value", "value": "medical", "selector": "input[name=q]"}, {"action": "submit", "selector": "#us-form"}]
000002  1455834796882:  {"action":"open_url","value":"http://blah.com/"}
000002  1455834801404:  {"action":"set_value","value":"medical","selector":"input[name=q]"}
000001  1455834801445:  {"action":"set_value","value":"medical","selector":"input[name=q]"}
000002  1455834801504:  {"action":"submit","selector":"#us-form"}
000001  1455834801549:  {"action":"submit","selector":"#us-form"}

These requests all seem to go through ok (AFAICT) - I'm just wondering if the numbers like 1455834796882 have any special significance?

Also, what monitoring tools would you recommend to check the impact of the load test?

Thanks a lot, Gary

[kidk]

The numbers (1455834796882) are unix timestamps. I'm going to change the output a bit this weekend, so this should become a little bit clearer.

Any monitoring tool that measures latencies of individual web requests should work fine. Considering this project is sponsored by CoScale.com (http://www.coscale.com) I would suggest them ;)