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Performance Test Automation 101: Gatling, Lighthouse, & Jenkins

Write your First Gatling Test Script Programmatically

Explore how to programmatically create your first Gatling test script by defining scenarios for HTTP GET and POST requests. Understand key components like httpProtocol configurations, assertions, and scenario setup to simulate load and stress testing. Gain practical skills in using Gatling's DSL for writing simple yet effective performance test scripts.

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In the previous lesson, we learned how to create a basic project structure and the necessary dependencies. In this lesson, we will write our first Gatling test script.

Gatling test scripts need to be written in Scala and are quite simple. However, for writing any utility functions, it may require more knowledge of Scala. We highly recommend learning Scala in depth if this is required for your uses and projects.

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Sample Gatling test script

In the sample Gatling test script, we will create two scenarios for running HTTP requests: one containing GET and the other containing POST. In both scenarios, we will perform some assertions as well.

Scala
import io.gatling.core.Predef._

import io.gatling.http.Predef._

import scala.concurrent.duration._



class SampleSimulation extends Simulation {



  val httpProtocol = http

    .baseUrl("http://localhost:8080")

    .acceptHeader("*/*")

    .doNotTrackHeader("1")

    .userAgentHeader(

      "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0"

    )

    .disableWarmUp

    .disableCaching



  val getScenario = scenario("BasicSimulation - GET")

    .exec(

      http("GET request")

        .get("/")

        .check(status.is(200))

    )



  val postScenario = scenario("BasicSimulation - POST")

    .exec(

      http("POST request")

        .post("https://reqres.in/api/register")

        .body(StringBody("""{ "email": "eve.holt@reqres.in", "password": "pistol" }"""))

        .asJson

        .check(

          status.is(200),

          jsonPath("$.id").exists,

          jsonPath("$.id").find.is("4")

        )

    )



  setUp(

    getScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1)),

    postScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1))

  ).protocols(httpProtocol)

}

Understanding the code

  • All Gatling simulation classes need to extend io.gatling.core.scenario.Simulation

  • httpProtocol defines the global configuration for all the HTTP calls.

    • baseUrl – sets the default base URL for all the requests. It can be overridden for individual HTTP
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