bbb-test v0.3:

- Chromium-based browsers support
- new tabs/windows switch
- better portatibility (bash may be not /bin/bash on BSD systems, 'which' command is not POSIX-compatible)
- detect local IP via hostname command
- allow passing arguements to script in any order
- allow connecting via HTTPS
- allow setting custom sleep time

labs/stress-testing/bbb-test

-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2008-2017 by BigBlueButton Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2008-2019 by BigBlueButton Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2017-2019 by Dumalogiya (https://dumalogiya.ru)
 #
 # Documentation: 
 #   http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/Testing
@@ -21,21 +22,35 @@
 #
 # Author(s):
 #       Fred Dixon <ffdixon@bigbluebutton.org>
+#       Mikhail Novosyolov <mikhailnov@dumalogiya.ru>
 #
 # Changelog:
 #   2011-01-22 FFD  Inital Version
-#   2017-03-08 Mikhail Novosyolov, Dumalogiya online school <mikhailnov@dumalogiya.ru>, changed Firefox command line call for its new API
+#   2017-03-08 Mikhail Novosyolov <mikhailnov@dumalogiya.ru>, v0.2:
+#    - changed Firefox command line call for its new API
+#   2019-03-31 Mikhail Novosyolov <mikhailnov@dumalogiya.ru>, v0.3:
+#    - Chromium-based browsers support
+#    - new tabs/windows switch
+#    - better portatibility (bash may be not /bin/bash on BSD systems, 'which' command is not POSIX-compatible)
+#    - detect local IP via hostname command
+#    - allow passing arguements to script in any order
+#    - allow connecting via HTTPS
+#    - allow setting custom sleep time
 
-VERSION=0.2
-IP=$(ifconfig | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | grep -E "[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*" | head -1 | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}')
+VERSION=0.3
+IP="$(hostname -I | cut -f1 -d' ')"
 
-
-while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+while [ -n "$1" ]; do
         case $1 in
-                --h|-h)		HOST=$2;		shift 2 ;;
-                --n|-n)		NUMBER=$2;		shift 2 ;;
-                *)		echo "$0: Unrecognized option: $1" >&2; exit 1;
+                --x|-x) set -x ;;
+                --h|-h) shift; HOST="$1" ;;
+                --n|-n) shift; NUMBER="$1" ;;
+                --b|-b) shift; BROWSER="$1" ;;
+                --m|-m) shift; NEWOBJ="$1" ;;
+                --s|-s) shift; SLEEP="$1" ;;
+                *)		echo "$0: Unrecognized option: $1" >&2; exit 1 ;;
         esac
+        shift
 done
 
 if [ -z "$HOST" ] || [ -z "$NUMBER" ]; then
@@ -44,45 +59,66 @@ if [ -z "$HOST" ] || [ -z "$NUMBER" ]; then
         echo "$0 [options]"
         echo
         echo "To launch BigBlueButton clients that connect to remote server:"
+        echo "   -x debug mode (optional, default off)"
         echo "   -h remote_bigbluebutton_host"
-	echo "   -n number_of_clients"
+        echo "   -n number_of_clients"
+        echo "   -b web_browser_command (optional, Firefox and Chromium/Chrome are supported, Firefox is default)"
+        echo "   -m tab|window (Open new tabs or new windows in the browser, default is tabs)"
+        echo "   -s Sleep time in seconds between opening new connections, default is 5"
         echo
-        echo "Example:"
+        echo "Examples:"
         echo "   $0 -h 192.168.0.104 -n 10"
+        echo "   $0 -h 192.168.0.104 -n 10 -b chromium-browser -m window"
+        echo "   $0 -h https://192.168.0.104 -n 10 -b firefox -s 5"
         exit 1
 fi
 
 #
 # We'll use a get request to demo1.jsp to create clients
+# bbb-demo must be installed on the server
 #
 # http://192.168.0.104/bigbluebutton/demo/demo1.jsp?username=Fred2&action=create
 
 # HOST="http://$HOST/bigbluebutton/demo/demo1.jsp?action=create&username=user"
-HOST="http://$HOST"
+if ! echo "$HOST" | grep -qE '^http://|^https://'; then
+	HOST="http://${HOST}"
+fi
+BROWSER="${BROWSER:-firefox}"
+NEWOBJ="${NEWOBJ:-tab}"
+SLEEP="${SLEEP:-5}"
 
+case "$BROWSER" in
+	firefox*|newmoon*|palemoon* )
+		BROWSER_ARGS="-new-${NEWOBJ} -url"
+		;;
+	*chrome*|chromium*|opera*|vivaldi*|yandex* )
+		BROWSER_ARGS="--new-${NEWOBJ}"
+		;;
+esac
 
-if ! wget $HOST/bigbluebutton/api -O - --quiet | grep -q SUCCESS; then
-	echo "Startup unsuccessful: could not connect to $HOST/api"
-        exit 1
-fi
+REQUIRED_CMD="wget ${BROWSER}"
+for cmd in ${REQUIRED_CMD}
+do
+	if ! command -v "$cmd" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+		echo "Unable to locate ${cmd}"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+done
 
-if ! which firefox >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-	echo "Unable to locate firefox"
+if ! wget "${HOST}/bigbluebutton/api" -O - --quiet | grep -q SUCCESS; then
+	echo "Startup unsuccessful: could not connect to $HOST/api"
         exit 1
 fi
 
-firefox &
-sleep 3
-
 i=0
 while [ $i != "$NUMBER" ]; do
 	echo "Connecting user $IP-$i"
-	firefox -new-tab -url "$HOST/demo/demo1.jsp?action=create&username=$IP-$i" &
+	"$BROWSER" ${BROWSER_ARGS} "$HOST/demo/demo1.jsp?action=create&username=${IP}-${i}" &
 	
 	# We'll give BigBlueButton a moment to process the incoming request from this IP.  
 	# If we try to open 10 clients at the same time, the session IDs for each client will
 	# likely not go to the specific tab (as thay all share the same IP address)
-	sleep 5
+	sleep "$SLEEP"
 
 	i=$[$i+1]
 done