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+++ b/benchmarks/test_benchmark.py	Wed Oct 15 08:11:14 2014 -0700
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+import re
+import urllib
+import random
+import unittest
+from funkload.FunkLoadTestCase import FunkLoadTestCase
+
+
+class Benchmark(FunkLoadTestCase):
+    """This test uses a configuration file Benchmark.conf."""
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.server_url = self.conf_get('main', 'url')
+
+    def test_simple(self):
+        server_url = self.server_url
+        if not re.match('https?://', server_url):
+            raise Exception("The `server_url` setting doesn't have a scheme.")
+
+        username = self.conf_get('test_benchmark', 'username', None)
+        password = self.conf_get('test_benchmark', 'password', None)
+        if username and password:
+            self.post(self.server_url + "/api/user/login",
+                  params=[['username', username],
+                          ['password', password]],
+                  description="Login as %s" % username)
+
+        nb_times = self.conf_getInt('test_benchmark', 'nb_times')
+        names = self.conf_get('test_benchmark', 'page_names').split(';')
+        for i in range(nb_times):
+            r = random.randint(0, len(names) - 1)
+            url = server_url + '/api/read/' + urllib.quote(names[r])
+            self.get(url, description='Getting %s' % names[r])
+
+
+if __name__ in ('main', '__main__'):
+    unittest.main()
+