The WordStress Story
A while back I was running load tests, or stress tests, on one of my clients websites. I was using ApacheBench for this and would manually enter the commands into the terminal. I had to do this manually each time with several environments and configurations, this annoyed me, so I made it a bit easier with a Google Sheet
The Google Sheet
The Google sheet contained ways to make it easier, it’d automatically add my cookie and I’d be able to easily change the amount of concurrent users and total tests. Then I’d simply copy and paste the command into my terminal.
A waiting game
But, it still required a lot of patience which I am not famous for.. So I converted it into a bash script. I’d run sh ./abtest.sh and it’d prompt me with some questions and it’d run several iterations, increasing the amount of requests for each iteration and write a report on the results. Pretty cool!
From a bash script to a platform!
That was the moment where I realised I cannot be the only struggling with these things! And this is where WordStress was born. A few weeks of enthuisastic development later – we’re here!