volt-test/laravel-performance-testing

Laravel Performance Testing

A Laravel package for performance testing with the VoltTest PHP SDK. Easily create and run load tests for your Laravel applications with built-in route discovery, per-virtual-user session handling, one-call CSRF token extraction, and comprehensive reporting.

Features

• Artisan Commands — Create and run tests from the CLI
• Route Discovery — Auto-generate test scaffolds from your Laravel routes
• Target Configuration — Set the target URL explicitly or auto-detect from config
• Stages — Define ramped load profiles (ramp-up, hold, spike, ramp-down)
• Cloud Execution — Run tests on VoltTest Cloud with multi-region support
• CSV Data Sources — Drive tests with dynamic data from CSV files
• PHPUnit Integration — Run performance tests in your test suite with assertions
• Sessions & CSRF — Cookies and sessions handled automatically per virtual user; CSRF is one call, extractCsrfToken()

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 11, 12, or 13
• VoltTest PHP SDK ^1.2

Installation

composer require volt-test/laravel-performance-testing --dev

Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=volttest-config

Quick Start

1. Create a test

php artisan volttest:make LoginTest

2. Define your scenario

class LoginTest implements VoltTestCase
{
    public function define(VoltTestManager $manager): void
    {
        $manager->target('http://localhost:8000');

        $scenario = $manager->scenario('Login Flow');

        $scenario->step('Get Login Page')
            ->get('/login')
            ->expectStatus(200)
            ->extractCsrfToken();

        $scenario->step('Submit Login')
            ->post('/login', [
                '_token' => '${csrf_token}',
                'email' => 'user@example.com',
                'password' => 'password',
            ])
            ->expectStatus(302);
    }
}

3. Run the test

php artisan volttest:run LoginTest --users=10 --duration=30s

4. Direct URL testing

php artisan volttest:run https://api.example.com/health --url --users=50 --duration=1m

Documentation

For full documentation, visit docs.volt-test.com:

For core VoltTest PHP SDK documentation, visit docs.volt-test.com.

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.