Is there tools for performance and load testing of REST service?

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Max picture Max · Jun 22, 2010 · Viewed 50.2k times · Source

We have web-application with REST interface. Is there some tools to test it?

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Avi Flax picture Avi Flax · Jun 22, 2010

A RESTful web app/API is just HTTP, so no specialized tools are needed to test performance (as opposed to functional testing, where specialized tools could be helpful). You basically just need to make a lot of HTTP requests and record the results.

I prefer ApacheBench to more complex tools such as JMeter. It's very simple and easily scriptable — just write a shell script. I also find it oriented on HTTP, while tools like JMeter are designed to support simulating human usage patterns.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html

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