Week of Testing Day 5: Ramping up load tests on the cloud with k6

Week of Testing Day 5: Ramping up load tests on the cloud with k6

k6
Dec 1, 2020

So you've got your load testing scripts. What next? How do you ramp it up and run it at scale on the cloud? In this video, Nicole shows how easy it is to kick off a load test using k6 Cloud. Timestamps below!

0:58 Simme's way: Using a custom function to handle load test scenario
1:43 Pepe's way: Using stages in k6
3:15 The importance of comparing like with like
4:28 Starting a load test on the cloud through the k6 CLI

Simme's custom function: https://gist.github.com/nicolek6/a250d5e69b03336133af422a53ebf34d
Pepe's suggestion to use stages is shown here: https://k6.io/docs/using-k6/options#stages

Installation instructions for k6: https://k6.io/docs/getting-started/installation
k6 on GitHub: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
Scale up your load tests on the k6 Cloud: https://k6.io
k6 on Twitter: @k6_io