Taurus

Installation and Upgrade

The installation process is fairly simple, it can be done using the pip - Python Package Management system. The pip comes with every up-to-date Python distribution so given you have python executable in system PATH you should have pip as well.

The command to install Taurus (or upgrade it to the most recent version) is:

pip install --upgrade bzt

(where “bzt” is BlazeMeter Taurus)

You may also have to install/upgrade the setuptools package via the following command:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

If you’re Windows user you may also have to install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

Make sure that you always use the most recent version of Taurus, as it contains the most recent fixes and new functionality.

You can validate the installation by typing

bzt -h

This command will print the Taurus version and all the possible command-line arguments.