Initial Gatling setup - what is the recommended / best way?!

Gatling (Open-Source)
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Hi folks,

I’m currently preparing a presentation and I’m a bit puzzled about the best way of a Gatling setup - I think of something moron-proof (aka suitable for me)

There are multiple ways of bootstrapping Gatling but none of them make me entirely happy :slight_smile:

My path to happiness

  • Simple setup for beginners (QA)
  • Gives you IDE integration for writing tests
  • Gives you command-line integration for your CI server (Maven, Gradle)
  • Can be easily put under version control (no libraries)

The different approaches I know of

1) Download the Gatling distribution

* This gives you ready-to-use samples and shell/batch files

  • AFAIK there is no way to wire that setup with your IDE (auto-complete, syntax errors, method navigation) so that would require writing Scala with a text editor?
  • Windows batch files suck suck since CTRL-C does not terminate the started JVM (to the best of my knowledge)
  • You should not take that under version control - 400 MB of libraries

2) Use The Gatling Maven Archetype

  • Gives you an IDE integration for recording/writing tests
  • Does not contain the “computer database” samples
  • Does not use the “gatling-maven-plugin” so little you can do on the the command line
  • Adding “gatling-maven-plugin” is of course possible but with little Maven/Gatling know-how this is a blocker

3) Craft Your Own Maven pom.xml

So the questions are

  • Is there something I don’t know?
  • How are other people doing that?

Thanks in advance,

Siegfried Goeschl

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https://github.com/gatling/gatling-maven-plugin-demo

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Hi Stephane, what do you think about making this link more prominent, e.g. “Getting Started”?

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Is there something similar for (aka ready-to-use) for Gradle?

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You can find documentation and links to the different demo project in Extensions.
note: search for “demo” in the page for each extension.

We are open to suggestions to improve our documentations. PR welcome

Cheers!

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First of all why you referring to Scala - Java implementation is easier and work perfectly.

Download the Gatling distribution - referring to JAVA version: you can import this Bundle to IDE (IntelliJ), and everything working as should - auto-complete, syntax errors, method navigation etc.

Use The Gatling Maven Archetype - as I known this option is not developed and maintained anymore.

You can use as @slandelle mentioned:
https://github.com/gatling/gatling-maven-plugin-demo

Or project from Gatling Academy - I think the best place to start.

Or you can use My project for that - in this project you have all official examples and my solutions for cases from this community:

https://github.com/gemiusz/gatling-examples-maven-java

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