Benchmarking/Performance testing of the API - REST/SOAP

Question

I'm trying to benchmark/ do performance testing of API's at my work. So the client facing is REST format while the backend data is retrieved by SOAP messages. So my question is can some of you share your thoughts on how you implement it (if you have done so in the past/doing it now), am basically interested in avg response time it takes for API to return results for the client

Please let me know if you need any additional information to answer the question

Answer 1

Could not say it any better than Mark, really: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules

Answer 2

Maybe you should give JMeter a try.

Answer 3

1. You can try using Apache Benchmark.This is simple and quick

2. Jmeter gives you additional flexibility like adding functional cases along with performance details. Results will be almost similar to Apache Benchmark tool.

3. The detailed one which gives Functional Test Result, performance counters settings, Call response time details, CPU and Memory changes along with Load/Stress results, with different bandwidth and browser settings - Visual Studio Team system

I used VSTS2010 for performance testing. Also GET and POST are straight forward. PUT and DELETE need coded version of webtest.

Thanks, Madhusudanan Tesco