Gatling Fundamentals for Stress Testing APIs - Scala

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you will gain the essential skills needed to effectively use Gatling for API stress testing. You will learn to install and configure Gatling, create scripts, run performance tests, and monitor the results. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to design load simulations and use Gatling’s powerful tools to perform comprehensive stress tests on your API services. The course will guide you through the installation of Gatling, setting up your development environment, and writing your first Gatling script from scratch. You’ll get hands-on experience with key features like the Gatling recorder, session variables, and debugging tools. Throughout the lessons, you’ll build up your skills by using real-world scenarios, such as simulating users on an API, managing response data, and testing under varied loads. As you progress, you’ll learn to handle different types of performance tests like ramping up users, using feeders to inject test data, and authenticating requests. The course concludes with a deep dive into integrating Gatling with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins and Travis, which will enhance your automated testing capabilities. This course is perfect for software developers, QA engineers, and DevOps professionals who are looking to enhance their API testing and load testing skills. A basic understanding of software development and APIs is recommended. No prior experience with Gatling is necessary.