Open Source Load Testing: JMeter, Gatling and Taurus + Application Monitoring

When choosing an open source testing tool, you'll find that each option has its own advantages, so the challenge is finding the best tool for your specific testing needs.

In this upcoming meetup, we'll look at Gatling, a Scala-based tool used to load test web applications. We will examine Gatling’s many capabilities and primary features, and compare them to Apache JMeter. We also look at some challenges, as well as how to use Taurus, an open source automation tool, to overcome them.

Guy Salton, Domain Expert for BlazeMeter at CA Technologies, and an expert on open source testing, will look at:

• The advantages of Gatling and its value for users
• How Gatling compares to JMeter
• A demonstration of how Taurus brings added value to Gatling users, including simple scripting, real-time reporting, and cloud scaling

What happens though when a load test fails, and we have to locate the performance bottlenecks?

Monitoring….we all know about it but it’s not exciting! However, you also can’t improve where you can’t measure. And measuring is often left too late in the lifecycle of an app. As we compress the lifecycle through containerization and microservices, this gets worse. We need a way that you can monitor earlier in the lifecycle but which doesn’t add friction to the main work you’re doing.

Monitoring, thus, must be as invisible as possible, but should INFORM and STRENGTHEN the toolchain. Integrated Application Performance Monitoring can help you shift left in the development cycle, fail fast, fix fast and ultimately produce more stable code.

Gary Jones, Senior Principal Consultant - Agile Operations at CA Technologies, will discuss the benefits of integrating these solutions to help you focus on quality and performance.

AGENDA

18:00 – Welcome, Pizza & drinks
18:30 – Open Source Testing: JMeter, Gatling and Taurus - Guy Salton, Domain Expert for BlazeMeter at CA Technologies
19:10 – Integrated Application Performance Monitoring to Shift Left - Gary Jones, Senior Principal Consultant - Agile Operations at CA Technologies
19:50 – Q&A, connect & meet
20:30 – End