GRPC Testing with K6

Provide confidence through repeatable automated tests

In this course we take a look at what K6 has to offer the world of automation for gRPC tests. This course has been written so that windows, mac and linux users can follow along. I also explore other technologies that we can use to enhance this product into a framework that we can use to add more functionality to our arsenal.

What do you want from a gRPC test framework?:

• A counter of successes and failures, with a no colour option.

• Negative and positive test pass as intended.

• Exit framework on first tests failure.

• Dependant gRPC requests shown as part of your system

• Data driven gRPC tests

• The ability to run your gRPC framework on Kubernetes or Jenkins.

• The ability to run our gRPC tests in parallel background tasks

• The ability pin point exact errors on gRPC status code.

• The ability to stage calls, so that interdependencies are maintained.

What do you want from your scaled up gRPC performance tests?:

• The ability to have reliable tests that will report all errors and in turn give a true representation of your gRPC reliability.

• The ability make these test simulate randomness of data input.

• The option to share connection on a per user basis or over all iterations.

• Self recovering tests that try to recover on failure

What do you want from your gRPC Micro Services?:

• The ability to have confidence that a change has not broken anything.

• The ability to say to managers in a matter of minutes that it works as it should.

• the ability to work efficiently and independently from the consuming/producing team.

• The ability to run tests as part of your CI/CD system

• The ability to run tests at a scheduled time of day.

If the answer is yes to any of the above then this is the course for you. Also look a the rarer proto types such as "any" and "typeOf".