About Taurus

Taurus: A New Star in the Test Automation Tools Constellation

When it comes to performance testing, JMeter is fantastic…but not perfect. Automation and integration with other systems can be a pain, and the tool itself comes with a steep learning curve. In this post, we’ll take a look at Taurus, an open source test automation tool that extends and abstracts JMeter, and helps to overcome these challenges. Taurus provides a simple way to create, run and analyze performance tests.

Intro to Taurus – Making Test Automation Simple

Here is a bit of the obvious: the load testing process isn’t limited to developing and running a load test. Moreover, those don’t cover even close to 50% of associated activities which includes:

• load test scenario definition and design
• load test scenario parameterization and execution
• load test scenario results analysis
• integration of all above processes into the software development life cycle
• automation of all of the above

Benefits of  Taurus

• extremely simple setup and upgrading
• an easily-readable, version control friendly and unified DSL (Domain-specific language) to define load test scenarios
• the ability to execute existing JMeter (or Grinder or Gatling or Selenium) tests
• the ability to merge multiple existing test scripts  into a single scenario
• real-time reporting
• multiple test output formats, including but not limited to:
• integration with the blazemeter.com reporting service
• console stats and pseudo-graphic charts during the test execution (which can be combined with the BlazeMeter integration)
• a JUnit-compatible test results format
• an easy way to define flexible pass/fail criteria. In case the results exceed a threshold, it is possible to automatically mark test(s) as failed
• platform-independency – runs where Python and Java can run