aliesbelik/awesome-gatling

A collection of resources covering different aspects of Gatling load testing tool usage.

Awesome Gatling

A curated collection of resources covering all aspects of load testing using Gatling and related stuff: plugins, integrations, testing techniques, DevOps practices, etc.

Gatling is an open-source load and performance testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty.

Contents

• Official Resources
• Getting Started
• Tutorials
• Distributed Testing
• Tools
  • Plugins
  • Frameworks
  • Reporting
  • Sandbox
  • Miscellaneous
• CI
• Trainings & Courses
• Videos
  • Talks
  • Video Tutorials
• Community
• Related
  • Awesome Lists
  • Other

Official Resources

• Homepage
• Documentation
• Source code

Getting Started

• Load testing with Gatling.io
• A first look at Gatling, a DSL based load test tool
• Gatling: Take your performance tests to the next level
• Load Testing with Gatling. The Complete Guide

Tutorials

• Load testing gRPC services with Gatling
• Creating a custom Gatling protocol for AWS Lambda
• Load testing ZeroMQ with a custom DSL for Gatling

Distributed Testing

• Distributed load testing with Gatling and Kubernetes
• Gatling – Scaling Out Your Load Tests
• Distributed Gatling - Solution to run Gatling simulation tests in a distributed/cluster environment.
• gatling-operator - Automating distributed Gatling load testing using Kubernetes operator.

Tools

Plugins

• gatling-sbt-plugin - Gatling SBT plugin to integrate Gatling with SBT, allowing to use Gatling as a testing framework.
• gatling-build-plugin - An SBT plugin to share common settings across Gatling's projects' builds.
• gatling-maven-plugin - Gatling Maven Extensions.
• gatling-gradle-plugin - Gatling plugin for Gradle.
• gatling-remote-sbt - Remote execution plugin for Gatling load tests.
• gatling-junitrunner - JUnit wrapper around Gatling simulations.
• gatling-grpc - Gatling load test plugin for gRPC.
• gatling-aws - Gatling custom protocol for AWS Lambda.
• gatling-xmpp-protocol - XMPP protocol for stress test XMPP servers with Gatling.
• gatling-jwt - An extension to Gatling 2.0 to help make JWT-signed requests.
• gatling-mqtt - A Gatling plugin for stress testing MQTT.
• gatling-kafka - A Gatling plugin for stress testing Apache Kafka protocol.
• gatling-kafka-plugin - Plugin for support Kafka in Gatling.
• gatling-amqp-plugin - Plugin for support performance testing with AMQP in Gatling (3.2.x).
• gatling-jdbc-plugin - Simple Gatling plugin for JDBC support.
• gatling-picatinny - Library with a bunch of useful functions that extend Gatling DSL.
• gatling-sql - Gatling extension for JDBC or Spark Thrift Server stress testing.
• gatling-tcp-extensions - TCP extensions for Gatling.
• gatling-thrift - Gatling third party plugin for Apache Thrift.
• gatling-bolt - Support Neo4j Bolt protocol for Gatling.
• gatling-zeromq - A Gatling stress test plugin for ZeroMQ protocol.
• gatling-dubbo - A Gatling plugin for running load tests on Apache Dubbo.

Frameworks

• Kraken - Load testing IDE based on Gatling by OctoPerf.
• Karate Gatling - Re-use Karate API-tests as performance tests executed by Gatling.
• Taurus - Gatling Executor in Taurus framework.
• Carrier - Continuous test execution platform with ability to perform load testing using customized JMeter and Gatling containers.

Reporting

• gatling-report - Parse Gatling simulation.log files to output CSV stats or build HTML reports with Plotly charts.
• gatling2allure - Convert Gatling log to Allure report.

Sandbox

• gatling-scaffold - Base for load test project using Gatling, InfluxDB and Grafana.
• perfiz - A dockerised API performance test setup based on Gatling with Grafana dashboards and Prometheus monitoring.

Miscellaneous

• dakiya - Convert Postman collections to Gatling scripts.
• gatling.g8 - Giter8 template for Gatling.
• gatling-template.g8 - A Giter8 template for Gatling performance test project.

CI

• Gatling Jenkins Plugin - Jenkins plugin for Gatling.
• run-gatling - GitHub Action to easily integrate Gatling performance tests to GitHub workflows.

Trainings & Courses

• Gatling Academy
• Gatling Courses - By Udemy.
• Performance Test Automation 101: Gatling, Lighthouse, & Jenkins - By Educative.

Videos

Talks

• Load Testing Done Right with Gatling - Stéphane Landelle @ Voxxed Days Belgrade 2015.
• Load Testing Crash Course with Gatling - Stéphane Landelle @ Devoxx Belgium 2022.
• Load Testing Made Easy with Gatling - Rafał Piotrowski @ Scala Days 2023 Madrid.

Video Tutorials

• Performance Testing with Gatling - Tutorial series by Tomi Tiihonen.
• Gatling Tutorials for Beginners - Tutorial series by James Willett.

Community

• Gatling Community
• gatling on Stack Overflow
• @GatlingTool on Twitter

Related

Awesome Lists

• Awesome Software Quality - A list of free software testing and verification resources.
• Awesome Testing - A curated list of testing resources.
• Awesome JMeter - Open-source load testing and performance measurement tool, written in Java.
• Awesome Tsung - Open-source multi-protocol distributed load testing tool, developed in Erlang.
• Awesome k6 - Open-source, developer-centric performance monitoring and load testing solution.
• Awesome Locust - Open-source scalable load testing framework written in Python.

Other

• How They Load Test - A curated collection of publicly available resources on how companies around the world perform load testing.
• Load Testing Toolkit - Collection of open-source tools for debugging, benchmarking, load and stress testing your code or services.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
Please take a look at the CONTRIBUTING guidelines first.