Running Your Test on the Command Line with Taurus

Taurus (https://gettaurus.org/) is a command-line tool for running load test scripts from various tools, including JMeter.

To perform a JMeter test, it's easy:

     bzt myscript.jmx

The advantage over the classic JMeter command line is that this provides more information while running:

Figure 11.4: Taurus

If you want to use more advanced features of Taurus, you need to create a YAML file – let's call it demo.yml. Be careful: the YAML syntax is very sensitive to indentation.

In the following example, we will do three things:

1. Define how the load will be injected (ramp-up, plateau, and so on) by this syntax:

   execution:

   - scenario: existing

    competition: 10

    hold-for: 10s

    ramp-up: 30s

   scenarios:

    existing:

        script: demo.jmx

   We tell Taurus to run the demo.jmx script with 10 threads by setting a ramp from 0 to 10 virtual users in 30 seconds, then a virtual...