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Performance Test Automation 101: Gatling, Lighthouse, & Jenkins

Gain insights into Gatling fundamentals, delve into advanced scripting, simulate network conditions with puppeteer and lighthouse, and set up Jenkins CI for scalable performance testing automation.

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52 Lessons

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Gain insights into Gatling fundamentals, delve into advanced scripting, simulate network conditions with puppeteer and lighthouse, and set up Jenkins CI for scalable performance testing automation.

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Course Overview

Almost every company in the world needs to test its scalability and performance of their products or applications. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of Gatling, an open-source performance testing tool that is in great demand in the software industry. You will start by learning the basics of performance testing including scalability testing and stress testing. You will then move on to more advanced concepts such as writing Gatling scripts, understanding web page performance and simulating net...Show More

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Course Content

Introduction

3 Lessons

Get familiar with performance test automation fundamentals using Gatling, Lighthouse, and Jenkins.

About the Course

What is Performance Testing?

Quiz Yourself on Basics of Performance Testing

Basics of Performance Testing

6 Lessons

Get started with various performance testing methods, metrics, and essential testing tools.

Types of Performance Testing

Scalability Testing

Load and Stress Testing

Key Performance Metrics

Performance Testing Tools

Quiz: Performance Testing Fundamentals

Gatling: Load and Stress Testing Tool

12 Lessons

Work your way through Gatling’s capabilities for load testing, script creation, and detailed reporting.

Introduction to Gatling

Gatling Features

Quiz: Gatling Fundamentals

About Gatling Recorder

Example - Recorder

Running the Gatling Test Script

Quiz: Gatling Recorder

Gatling Project Configuration and Setup

Create Gatling Test Project

Write your First Gatling Test Script Programmatically

Running the Gatling Test Script

Understanding the Gatling Report

Gatling: Script Features

12 Lessons

Break down complex Gatling script features for effective performance testing and simulations.

About Gatling's Script Features

User Injection Profiles

Assertions

Web Sockets

Quiz: Gatling Script Features

Examples: Simulations Using Gatling

3 Lessons

Dig into simulations of stress, integration load, and distributed load testing using Gatling.

Example 1 - Stress Test Simulation

Example 2 - Integration Load Test Simulation

Example 3 - Distributed Load Test Simulation

Web Page Performance

4 Lessons

Investigate web page performance impacts, assess key metrics, and automate with Lighthouse.

Web Page Performance (WPP)

Example - Web Page Performance

Automate WPP using Lighthouse

Quiz: Web Page Performance

Network Throttling

3 Lessons

Simulate network throttling to optimize website performance for various network conditions.

What is Network Throttling?

Simulating Network Throttling - Desktop Web and Mobile Web

Quiz: Network Throttling

Download Custom Gatling Test Framework

2 Lessons

Try out the custom Gatling framework for effective performance test automation.

Download and Understand the Framework

Building and Running Tests

Gatling with Jenkins

6 Lessons

Get started with integrating Gatling for load testing in Jenkins CI workflows.

Introduction: Continuous Integration (CI)

Setup Jenkins

Installing Gatling Jenkins Plugin

Create Jenkins Job for Load Testing

Gatling Global Assertions

Quiz: Gatling with Jenkins

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Conclusion

1 Lessons

Explore the importance of performance testing for a positive user experience.

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