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Advanced Gatling for Stress Testing Web Applications

Use Gatling to create an advanced stress, load, and performance test framework with a real project and add Jenkins for CI

James Willett

Created by James Willett

Dive into the world of performance testing by building a complete stress-testing framework using Gatling. You'll get hands-on experience applying Gatling to a real e-commerce project and learn how to integrate it with Jenkins for continuous integration. No prior performance testing background is needed, making it accessible for all skill levels.

Packt | Oct 2023 | 286 min

What You Will Learn

You'll work through a project-based journey, starting with setting up Gatling and scripting real user actions on an e-commerce site. As you progress, you'll refactor your code into a flexible testing framework, explore advanced Gatling features, and finish by connecting everything to Jenkins for automated testing. Each step builds practical skills you can use right away.

Key Features

  • Apply Gatling to real e-commerce scenarios for practical performance testing skills
  • Build a robust stress-testing framework from scratch to deepen your technical expertise
  • Integrate Gatling with Jenkins to automate and streamline continuous testing workflows

Target Audience

This course is ideal for QA engineers, developers, or anyone curious about performance testing, even if you have little or no experience with Gatling. If you're familiar with other tools like JMeter or LoadRunner and want to expand your toolkit, or if you're looking to automate testing in your workflow, you'll find clear explanations and practical examples to help you succeed.

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