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Multi-Mechanize Script With HTTP Profiling Timers

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May. 21, 12 · Web Dev Zone · Interview
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Multi-Mechanize is an open source framework for web performance and load testing. It allows you to run simultaneous python scripts to generate load (synthetic transactions) against a web site or web service.

The default response timer wraps the entire Transaction(), so it will time everything included. For more granular timing, you need to instrument your script code with custom timers.

Multi-Mechanize is pure Python and you have access to all of Python's standard library in your scripts. For example, you can use httplib to write a virtual user agent script and get detailed HTTP profiling times (TTFB, TTLB, etc). http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html

 
import httplib
import time


class Transaction(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.custom_timers = {}
    
    def run(self):
        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.example.com')
        start = time.time()
        conn.request('GET', '/')
        request_time = time.time()
        resp = conn.getresponse()
        response_time = time.time()
        conn.close()     
        transfer_time = time.time()
        
        self.custom_timers['request sent'] = request_time - start
        self.custom_timers['response received'] = response_time - start
        self.custom_timers['content transferred'] = transfer_time - start
        
        assert (resp.status == 200), 'Bad HTTP Response' 

To test it out, you can add this to the bottom of the script and run it from the command line:

 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    trans = Transaction()
    trans.run()
    
    for timer in ('request sent', 'response received', 'content transferred'):
        print '%s: %.5f secs' % (timer, trans.custom_timers[timer])

Output:

request sent: 0.14429 secs
response received: 0.25995 secs
content transferred: 0.26007 secs

* if you are running MS Windows, replace the time.time() calls with time.clock() for better timer accuracy. On all other operating systems, use time.time()

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