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AWS Device Farm vs Gatling: What are the differences?

Developers describe AWS Device Farm as "Test your app on real devices in the AWS Cloud". Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors. On the other hand, Gatling is detailed as "open-source load testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty". 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..

AWS Device Farm and Gatling can be primarily classified as "Load and Performance Testing" tools.

Gatling is an open source tool with 4.3K GitHub stars and 918 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gatling's open source repository on GitHub.

Streamdata.io, SpectoLabs Ltd, and StellaService are some of the popular companies that use Gatling, whereas AWS Device Farm is used by Getaway GmbH, StaffConnect, and Unscriptd. Gatling has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to AWS Device Farm, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Pros of AWS Device Farm
Pros of Gatling
  • 3
    1000 free minutes
  • 2
    Pay as you go pricing
  • 6
    Great detailed reports
  • 5
    Can run in cluster mode
  • 5
    Loadrunner
  • 3
    Scala based
  • 2
    Load test as code
  • 0
    Faster

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Cons of AWS Device Farm
Cons of Gatling
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    Records all sessions, blocks on processing when done
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    You need to remember to turn airplane mode off
  • 2
    Steep Learning Curve
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    Hard to test non-supported protocols
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    Not distributed

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What is AWS Device Farm?

Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors.

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.

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What tools integrate with AWS Device Farm?
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What are some alternatives to AWS Device Farm and Gatling?
Xamarin Test Cloud
Run your app on our huge (and growing) collection of real devices from around the world. Select devices based on form factor, manufacturer, operating system, or even popularity in your target market. We’re adding over 100 devices every month, and if there’s a specific device you need, we’re taking requests.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
BrowserStack
BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.
Xamarin
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Sauce Labs
Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.
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