Load Testing Websockets

Load testing websockets using BrowserUp can be done in a few ways.

Browser Automation

For a web application, the simplest way to test websockets is to automate a browser that visits the pages that cause the websocket traffic. Out of the box, we support Playwright, Selenium, and others.

This approach offers a number of advantages:

• It behaves as a real browser does
• When the websocket behavior is changed, the script won’t need to be updated if the page flow is the same
• You can re-use your Page Objects and your own source code that you already maintain to drive the test
• Typically, the functional automation is ready earlier in the development cycle, letting you release sooner

Other Supported Approaches

• Make websocket requests programmatically with a language in our standard image: Javascript, C#, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.
• Run PostMan requests, which now support websockets, using our standard image
• Create a custom docker image based on ours but with your language and libraries of choice driving the websocket requests and use that