Load Test With Java

There are several ways to run a Java-based load test with BrowserUp.

1 - Running your plain Java code directly.

If you have a code library that makes HTTP/Websocket requests, you can call your library directly to make requests on your behalf. For example, if you have an internal client library for a REST api, you can use your own library to generate load with BrowserUp while capturing your traffic.

The key advantages to doing this with BrowserUp are:

  • Full traffic capture
  • Full Reporting
  • Automatic, global distribution of load, as desired
  • Rampup, rampdown, and scaling

There are two approaches to creating this type of test:

  • Use our standard image with a FAT Jar. A Fat JAR is compiled with all dependencies built into the Jar. For this approach, your app will be run with our built-in Java (OpenJDK 17)

  • Use a custom image based on our browserup/custom-base. With a custom image, you are free to install whatever dependencies you like into the image, as well as to change the Java version or tweak the image in other ways.

2 - Running a browser-based test in Selenium or other Java-driven tool.

  • For Selenium, our standard image features a built-in chromium install, so you can run browser-based load without worrying about containers.

  • For other tools, you can install what you like in our custom image.

browserup generate java

Our browserup/standard image ships with JavaScript, Java, Ruby and Python pre-installed.

One advantage of using our pre-built image is that it can run other types of tests as well.


Note that we generated a scaffold with example code of only one kind, but the test config is generic, and can run any or all of the supported profile types: JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Python, PostMan, PlayWright, Custom and more.

2 - Create a Custom Image based on browserup/custom-base, with your own dependencies installed. With this approach, you won’t necessarily need to create a FAT jar (although that’s fine as well).

At present, the base for the custom image must be our browserup/custom-base image, which is built on Debian Bullseye Slim.

So simply start your Dockerfile with: