Artillery vs Taurus

Artillery combines load testing, scalable Playwright end-to-end testing, and production monitoring in one toolkit. It supports load, stress, and soak tests, including distributed runs across AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Azure Container Instances. HTTP, WebSocket, and Socket.IO are built in, with other protocols available through plugins. Playwright scripts can run as load tests or synthetic checks; the homepage also describes a Turbo runner beta for splitting large Playwright suites into parallel work. Listed integrations include Datadog, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, AWS CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Azure DevOps. Artillery says its typical users include application developers, test and QA engineers, and operations or SRE teams responsible for production backend systems. Cloud reporting is opt-in per test run, while tests run in the user's own environment even when reports are sent to Artillery Cloud. The Free plan lists 30 reports per month; Team costs $199 a month and includes 1,000 reports per month. Continued overages may degrade service or lead to read-only mode.

Taurus is a free, open-source framework for automating continuous testing. It wraps performance and functional tests and relies on tools including JMeter, Gatling, Locust.io, and Selenium WebDriver. Documented executors also cover JUnit, K6, Postman/Newman, PyTest, TestNG, and Playwright. Test scripts can be written in YAML or JSON, with configurable pass/fail criteria. Taurus can show live statistics in a terminal and generate interactive reports, JUnit XML, and CSV outputs. The project documents integrations with Jenkins, Bamboo, and TeamCity, and provides a Docker image. Installation can use Python’s package manager with `pip install bzt`; official instructions cover Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. Requirements vary by system and test type: Linux installation requires Python 3.7+ and Java, and some test types need additional software. Cloud-provisioned execution uses BlazeMeter locations and requires an API key in the cloud module settings. Taurus is licensed under Apache 2.0 and directs users to GitHub Issues and a support forum.