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Glossary
- agent
agents
- A process, running on a distant machine, waiting to run the tests (send
the requests) to create some actual load on the system under test.
- broker
- The process which routes the jobs to the agents. It contains a broker
controller and a broker database.
- distributed run
distributed test
- When a test is run in distributed mode, meaning that all the commands goes
trought the broker and one or more agents.
- observers
- Some python code in charge of notifying people via various channels (irc,
email, etc.). Observers are running on the broker.
- outputs
- Some python code in charge of generating reports (in real time or not)
about a Loads run. Outputs are running on the client side.
- runner
- The code that will actually run the test suite for you.
- system under test
- The website or service you want to test with Loads.
- virtual users
- When running a test, you can chose the number of users you want to have in
parallel. This is called the number of virtual users.
- workers
- Each agent can spawn a number of workers, which does the actual queries.
The agent isn’t sending itself the queries, it creates a worker which does
it instead.