Why developers like Gatling

What is Gatling?

Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance. Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.

Gatling is a tool in the Load and Performance Testing category of a tech stack.

Gatling is an open source tool with 6.4K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Gatling's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Gatling?

Companies

48 companies reportedly use Gatling in their tech stacks, including Trendyol Group, Backbase, and Peloton.

Trendyol Group

Backbase

Peloton

Craftbase

Queue-it

TACTFUL.ai

Labs

immowelt Hamburg ...

Edgelab

Developers

193 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Gatling.

My Stack

Personal Stack

My Stack

personal

Gatling Integrations

RedLine13

Loadium

Pros of Gatling

Great detailed reports

Can run in cluster mode

Loadrunner

Scala based

Load test as code

Faster

Decisions about Gatling

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Gatling in their tech stack.

Rashmi Ranjan

Mar 17, 2021 | 6 upvotes · 89K views

Needs advice

Gatling

and

Locust

I am looking for a performance testing tool that I can use for testing the documents accessed by many users simultaneously. I also want to integrate Jenkins with the performance automation tool. I am not able to decide which shall I choose Gatling or Locust. But for me, Jenkins integration is important. I am looking for suggestions for this scenario.

Vrashab Jian

QA at Altair · Jun 23, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 133.5K views

Needs advice

Flood IO

Gatling

and

Locust

I have to run a multi-user load test and have test scripts developed in Gatling and Locust.

I am planning to run the tests with Flood IO, as it allows us to create a custom grid. They support Gatling. Did anyone try Locust tests? I would prefer not to use multiple infra providers for running these tests!

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Gatling's Features

Simulating heavy traffic
Load testing as code for CI/CD integration & automation
API Load testing
Automated deployment of load injectors
Response times reports

Gatling Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Gatling?

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

BlazeMeter

Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.<br>

Locust

Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.

It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.

Cucumber

Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.

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