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September 2020

How to Load Test OAuth secured APIs with k6?

The outline of this article is as follows: Most systems are designed to treat users differently based on their identity. Therefore, users are authenticated via various mechanisms and it's often equally important to test the performance of anonymous and authenticated endpoints. One of the most widespread authentication standards used by today's applications is OAuth. In OAuth, we use a trusted third party to verify the identity of the user.