Gatling

In the previous post, we got a bare bones Gatling project running with a single request. That is enough to prove your setup works, but it is nowhere near what a real load test looks like. Today we build something closer to reality, a scenario with several requests chained together, and we talk properly about how the Java DSL fits together. How the DSL Reads Gatling’s Java DSL is built to be read almost like a script, top to bottom. Once you get used to the shape of it, most of what you write ends up looking like a sentence describing user behavior. The three static imports you will use constantly are these. ...

Performance testing has a reputation for being complicated to get into. Heavy tools, confusing scripting languages, a steep learning curve before you even run your first load test. Gatling is one of the tools that actually breaks that pattern, especially now that it has a proper Java DSL. If you already write Java for a living, you can be productive in Gatling within a day. This is the first post in a twelve part series on building a real performance testing framework with Gatling and Java. We start right at the beginning, with project setup, and build up from there. ...