Run `beforeScenario` only once before a scenario

I thought that I can use the beforeScenario to call my auth service to get an access token and use that for each call to the service I’m load testing. However, my auth function is called before each endpoint call. That is suboptimal because I don’t want load test my auth service at the same time I load test all my other services.

Code example:

scenarios:
  - name: "Endpoint returns 200"
    beforeScenario: "auth"
    flow:
      - get:
          url: "/api/v1/endpoint"
          expect:
            - statusCode: 200
            - contentType: json

[hassy]

beforeScenario is indeed meant to be run before each scenario execution (by each virtual user).

There is a way to run a call just once via a before section at the top level of the test definition. The contents of the section can be an arbitrary scenario, but any variables captured by that scenario will be available to all virtual users.

Quick example:

config:
  target: https://artillery.io
  phases:
    - duration: 10
      arrivalRate: 1

before:
  flow:
    - log: "running a request before virtual users run"
    # Grab a random URL from the homepage:
    - get:
        url: "/"
        capture:
          - selector: "a"
            attr: "href"
            index: "random"
            as: "url"

scenarios:
  # All virtual users will make requests to the same URL
  - flow:
      - log: "URL is {{ url }}"
      - get:
          url: "{{ url }}"

[MarcoArredondo]

Do you know if is there an “after” instruction too? I need to delete a parent element that I created in the “before” section. I looked through the documentation but I see nothing

I added this at the root level but seems to do nothing:

after:
  flow:
    - log: "Deleting project {{projectID}}"
    - delete: 
        url: /rest/v1/projects/{{projectID}}