Course Category: Software Testing
Course Duration: 4 Days
Hours: 21 Contact Hours
Course Objectives
Gatling Open Source is a free and open-source cross-platform Web Server Load and Performance Testing solution. With an easy-to-use Java API, and enterprise-class features, Gatling Open Source allows to easily and rapidly create and execute automated functional, regression, and load & performance tests.
On completing the course, the participants shall:
- Learn Gatling Open Source and its use cases
- Use Gatling Open source to test static and dynamic web resources.
- learn how to use Gatling Open Source to test Web Api and Rest.
- Learn to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test their strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types and shapes.
Program includes introduction to Gatling Enterprise, demos and hands-on.
Audience
This workshop is for software testers and software developers who aspire to use Gatling Open Source to efficiently conduct web server load and performance testing.
Software Requirements
- Latest IntelliJ Idea Community Edition
- Or any other Java IDE
- Latest Maven
- OpenJDK 21 or later
Prerequisites
Participants should have reasonable experience with manual web testing and beginner level coding skills.
Course Coverage
1. Fundamentals
- History
- Installation
- Open Source vs Enterprise
- Capabilities
- IDE Fundamentals
- Java and Maven Fundamentals
- Hello, World!
- Project Structure
- Execute and Debug
- Gatling Open Source vs JMeter
- Testing Fundamentals
- Types of Tests
- How to find Test Cases
- Load & Performance
- Statistics
- Metrics
- Strategy and Guidelines
- Role of Gatling Open Source
- HTTP
- Request & Response
- Methods & Headers
- Cookies
- Mapping HTTP
- REST API
- Intro to OpenAPI
- HTML, CSS and JS
- RegEx
- Xpath
- JsonPath
2. Gatling Basics
- Configuration
- Simulation and Components
- Scenario
- Sessions
- Expression Language
- Functions
- Assertions
- Checks
- Protocols
- Headers
- Cookies
- SSL
- Profile Injection
- Gatling DSL
- Gatling Recorder
- Writing Realistic Tests
- Debugging
- Passing Parameters
- Feeder
- Data Driven Tests
- Data Faker
- Cloud vs Local Data
3. Use Cases
- Authentication
- gRPC
- WebSockets
- MQTT
- Kafka
- Docker App
- Server-sent Events
- Github CI/CD Integration
- Configuration as Code
- Reporting
- Shaping Loads
- Open Model
- Closed Model
- Various Load & Performance tests
- Hooks
- Distributed & Remote tests
- Recording and Mirroring
- Plugins
- Tips
- Best Practices
