JMeter performance test for webhooks - automation

I'm a Newbie in using JMeter tool and could not find a approach in JMeter to run End to end performance test of below use case:-
I have https webhook(Hosted on my node JS server) that is invoked on new device creation on Azure IotHub(Webhook subscription is done on Azure IotHub).
Once invoked, I parse the webhook(request) body and generate a unique token.
Once unique token generated, I set that token in the device configuration for which the webhook was called.(I get the deviceId in webhook body)
Once the device configuration set I return the response of webhook as 200.
Now, In JMeter how can I achieve step 1-4. My initial approach is to:-
Write python script to simulate new device creation on IoT hub.
After step 1 I'm not sure how will I capture the webhook invoked and response returned from webhook in JMeter.
Basically, Im not sure how I can successfully capture Step 2 and 4. Step 3 is basically the nodejs code for my webhook hosted on my server.
And I need to run step 2 and 4 200K times to measure the performance.
In summary, I have a script which registers device on cloud which triggers my webhook/api and I will calculate the response time in my script i.e. everything will be written in my script just that I want JMeter to show all the charts etc. based on the calculations I do in my script.And the script should be invoked n number of times as per the load required.
Any help in guiding me the approach would be very appreciated.

I have a solution for this now, in case anyone needs it.
Thread Group --> OS process sampler --> Response time graph
Above are the components I used in my JMeter tool. OS process sampler can run any script on your machine.

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Test async data processing flows with Karate Labs

I'm looking for best practices or the recommended approach to test async code execution with Karate.
Our use cases are all pretty similar but a basic one is:
Client makes HTTP request to API
API accepts request and creates a messages which is added to a queue
API replies with ACCEPTED / 202
Worker picks up message from queue processes it and updates database
Eventually after the work is finished another endpoint delivers updated data
How can I check with Karate that after processing has finished other endpoints return the correct result?
Concrete real life example:
Client requests a processing intensive data export to API e.g. via HTTP POST /api/export
API create message with information for creating the export and puts it on AWS SQS queue
API replies with 202
Worker receives message and creates export, uploads result as ZIP to S3 and finally creates and entry in the database symbolizing this export
Client can now query list exports endpoint e.g. via HTTP GET /api/exports
API returns 200 with the list of exports incl. the newly created entry
Generally I have two ideas on how to approach this:
Use karate retry until on the endpoint that returns the list of exports
In the API response (step #3) return the message ID and use the HTTP API of SQS to poll that endpoint until the message has been processed and then query the list endpoint to check the result
Is either of those approach recommended or should I choose an entirely different solution?
The moment queuing comes into the picture, I would not recommend retry until. It would work if you are in a hurry, but if you are ok to write a little bit of Java code, please read on. Note that this Java "glue code" needs to be written only once, and then the team responsible for writing the functional flows will be up and running.
I personally would prefer option (2) just because when a test fails, you will have a lot more diagnostic information and traces to look at.
Pretty sure you won't have a problem using AWS Java libs to do things such as polling SQS.
I think this example will answer all your questions: https://twitter.com/getkarate/status/1417023536082812935

REST API load testing with Jmeter

Im new to REST API testing, I want to do a load of an HTTP REST API, is there any possibility to do a 100 number of parallel HTTP request testing with Jmeter?
And also my request need a query params, can I provide a list of values to Jmeter and Jmeter can loop each request with one param form the list provided?
Appreciate your help.
JMeter executes requests as fast as it can, I don't fully understand your 100 number of parallel HTTP request stanza.
If you want 100 virtual users concurrently accessing your API endpoint: under Thread Group specify number of threads as 100 and set loop count to Forever or -1. In this case the actual number of requests per second will depend on your application response time
If you want to send 100 requests at exactly the same moment - use Synchronizing Timer
If you need to send 100 requests per second - use Precise Throughput Timer
For parameterizing your request with external data people normally use CSV Data Set Config

Cache data from external API in an orchestrated manner

I am building an application which uses the Amazon MWS API.
The API has limits for how frequently you can hit it.
I am looking for a tool that can act as a reverse-proxy, save the MWS API responses, and eventually masquerade as the MWS API without ever hitting it, returning only responses from the cache.
Some tools do this, but what I need is a bit more complicated.
Say I request a report from Amazon MWS:
I'll call RequestReport
I'll get a ReportRequestId back
I'll start server polling GetReportRequestList to find out what the current status of the report request is. The report request will go likely go through the statuses SUBMITTED then DONE, but it could also be set to ERROR or CANCELLED
When the report request status returned by GetReportRequestList is DONE, I can finally call GetReport and get the data.
The behavior from step 3 is what I'm trying to replicate.
This external API cache should be able to produce different results for the same request: the first response should yield SUBMITTED and then the second response should yield DONE.
I should be able to easily configure these flows as I wish, setting the responses I want for the 1st, 2nd, nth request.
I would like this tool to necessitate minimal configuration, I do not want to configure routes or anything, I want it to automatically cache everything and then return everything from the cache, never flushing it.
Also, I need this level of control over what's returned in a response, depending on the count of requests done up to that point.

How REST API handle continuous data update

I have REST backend api, and front end will call api to get data.
I was wondering how REST api handles continuous data update, for example,
in jenkins, we will see that if we execute build job, we can see the continous log output on page until job finishes. How REST accomplish that?
Jenkins will just continue to send data. That's it. It simply carries on sending (at least that's what I'd presume it does). Normally the response contains a header field indicating how much data the response contains (Content-Length). But this field is not necessary. The server can omit it. In such a case the response body ends when the server closes the connection. See RFC 7230:
Otherwise, this is a response message without a declared message body length, so the message body length is determined by the number of octets received prior to the server closing the connection.
Another possibility would be to use the chunked transfer encoding. Then the server sends a chunk of data having its own Content-Length header. The server terminates this by sending a zero-length last chunk.
Websocksts would be a third possibility.
I was searching for an answer myself and then the obvious solution struck me. In order to see what type of communication a service is using, you can simply view it from browser side using Developer Tools.
In Google Chrome it will be F12 -> Network.
In case of Jenkins, front-end is sending AJAX requests to backend for data:
every 5 seconds on Dashboards page
every second during Pipeline run (Console Output page), that you have mentioned.
I have also checked the approach in AWS. When checking the status of instances (example: Initializing... , Booting...), it queries the backend every second. It seems to be a standard interval for its services.
Additional note:
When running an AWS Remote Console though, it first sends requests for remote console instance status (backend answers with { status: "BOOTING" }, etc.). After backend returns status as "RUNNING", it starts a WebSocket session between your browser and AWS backend (you can notice it by applying WS filter in developer tools).
Then it is no longer REST API, but WebSockets, that is a different protocol (stateful).

Laravel Api response

I am new to Laravel and Api development, i am facing a problem, the workflow of my api is, a user sends post data to api, then api takes that data and processes the data to databases, now there is a process in which php waits for 30 min. while inserting data into two different tables.
The problem is as far as i know after that process is complete then only i can send json response back to user. but this way user has to wait for 30 minute.
Is there a way that process that takes 30 min do work in background and send the response json immediately when that process started ?
1) I studied about queues but the web server i will be hosting will not give me access to server as a whole to install something, it will only give me space for my files.
I am confused how to achieve this functionality, so that user do not have to wait much for Response.
I will really appreciate.
Thanks,
You can use the queue without any server installation. All your configuration goes in the config/queue.php file.
You can use
Amazon SQS: aws/aws-sdk-php ~3.0
Beanstalkd: pda/pheanstalk ~3.0
Redis: predis/predis ~1.0
Read more here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/queues#introduction