api-performance-test-planner

name	api-performance-test-planner
description	Create a review-ready API performance plan and optional k6 or JMeter draft. Use when asked to plan load, stress, spike, soak, throughput, concurrency, or latency testing for APIs. Produce an evidence-based workload, thresholds, monitoring needs, and abort conditions without inventing an SLA or starting load automatically.
license	MIT
metadata	{"author":"TheTestingAcademy","category":"API Testing","version":"1.0.0"}

API Performance Test Planner

Translate documented traffic and service objectives into a controlled workload.

Inputs and evidence

Require the authorized target environment, endpoint mix, traffic evidence, service objectives, dependencies, test-data strategy, and current baseline if available. Record missing rates, latency objectives, error budgets, or capacity expectations as TBD.

Workflow

1. Select only the requested test type: baseline, load, stress, spike, or soak.
2. Derive virtual users or request rate, traffic mix, ramp, and duration from supplied evidence.
3. Define checks and thresholds from documented SLOs; keep absent thresholds TBD.
4. Specify synthetic data, correlation, server-side monitoring, network context, and cleanup.
5. Draft the requested k6 or JMeter artifact with configurable rates, durations, and safe defaults.
6. HUMAN REVIEW GATE (mandatory). Confirm target ownership, rates, duration, schedule, data, monitoring, dependencies, and abort conditions before any load is generated.