Using Cookies

Using Cookies

LoadFocus supports requests with custom cookies, enabling you to simulate user sessions and authenticated interactions with your website or API. This is particularly useful for load testing scenarios where user-specific data or sessions need to be maintained across multiple requests.

Adding Cookies to Your Requests

When configuring your load test, you can add cookies to your requests. These cookies will be sent along with each request, allowing you to maintain state and session data as needed. This feature is especially useful for testing authenticated endpoints, shopping carts, user-specific settings, and other scenarios where cookies are essential.

Here is how you can configure cookies for your load tests:

• Name: token
• Value: djs34567ajdlasjdklas765756kjdas (authentication token value)
• Domain: example.com (domain on which they will apply)
• Path: /or/my_folder/

Use Cases for Cookies in Load Testing

1. Authenticated User Testing:

• Simulate authenticated user interactions by setting session cookies or authentication tokens.
• Test how your application handles multiple concurrent authenticated users.

2. User-Specific Data:

• Maintain user-specific data across multiple requests.
• Test features that rely on user-specific cookies, such as personalized content or user preferences.

3. Shopping Cart Functionality:

• Simulate users adding items to a shopping cart.
• Ensure the cart contents are maintained across multiple requests and sessions.

4. Session Management:

• Test session timeouts and renewals.
• Validate that your application handles session cookies correctly under load.

5. Cross-Domain Testing:

• Set cookies for different subdomains to test cross-domain interactions.
• Ensure cookies are correctly applied and maintained across different parts of your application.

Best Practices for Using Cookies in Load Tests

• Secure Cookies: Ensure that secure cookies are handled correctly by setting the appropriate flags.
• HTTPOnly Cookies: Test how your application handles HTTPOnly cookies, which are not accessible via JavaScript.
• Cookie Expiration: Validate that cookies with expiration dates are managed correctly by your application.
• Cookie Size: Test the impact of large cookies on your application's performance and client load times.
• Cookie Scope: Ensure cookies are applied to the correct domain and path as specified.

Example Configuration

Here's an example configuration for setting cookies in LoadFocus:

{
  "cookies": [
    {
      "name": "token",
      "value": "djs34567ajdlasjdklas765756kjdas",
      "domain": "example.com",
      "path": "/or/my_folder/",
      "secure": true,
      "httpOnly": true
    }
  ]
}


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