How-to: Automating API load testing with mabl

Testing and understanding your application’s performance is essential to creating a seamless experience for your customers. In this lesson, we’ll introduce mabl’s API load testing, which you can use to regularly test your application’s performance and obtain data that provides actionable recommendations for your entire team.

In this introductory course, you will learn about:

• The necessity of adding API load testing to your browser, API, and accessibility testing suites
• Navigating the mabl App to create an API load test
• Reviewing mabl API load test output and performance

We recommend this lesson for anyone interested in learning more about API load testing, as well as teams interested in building automated API load tests in mabl. This lesson should take about 15 minutes to complete. 

Be sure to check out our documentation on API load testing in the mabl Help Docs:

• Performance testing overview
• Performance testing setup
• Running performance tests
• Reviewing performance tests
• Performance tests FAQs

This lesson is split into 3 videos. In the first video, you will learn how to:

• Outline performance testing as essential
• Define API load performance testing
• Prepare resources and API documentation

In the second video, you will learn how to:

• Create an API load test in mabl
• Test multiple API load test scenarios
• Outline common example use cases for API load testing

In the final video, you will learn how to:

• Navigate API load testing results in the mabl App
• Identify trends in your application’s performance
• Prioritize test results by impact to your application

Happy testing!