The document discusses performance testing and introduces the Gatling load testing tool. It provides an overview of why performance testing is difficult due to the need to simulate production environments. It then discusses Gatling's domain specific language (DSL) for defining load tests and scenarios, including features for HTTP requests, checks, looping, conditions, error handling, setup, feeders and reporting. Gatling allows defining and executing distributed load tests across multiple machines.

1. Performance tests with
Gatling
Andrzej Ludwikowski

2. About me
➔
➔ aludwikowski.blogspot.com
➔ github.com/aludwiko
➔ @aludwikowski

4. Performance tests - why so hard?
Simulate production as close as possible:
● hardware
○ CPU, RAM, storage, ...
● software
○ OS, Virtualization, DBs, …
● load
● isolation

5. Performance tests - why so hard?
Necessary to have:
● infrastructure
● monitoring
● logging

6. Performance tests - why so hard?
● Your performance intuition is wrong!
1. collect the data (monitoring, logging, profiling)
2. find the bottleneck (based on data)
3. fix the bottleneck
4. collect the data and check the assumptions
5. go to 1.

7. Performance tests - why so hard?
Lies, damned lies, and statistics:
● arithmetic mean = 2.9
● median = 1
● standard deviation = 6 (only for normal distribution)

8. Performance tests - why so hard?
● Anscombe's quartet
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/
Property Value
Mean of x 9
Sample variance of x 11
Mean of y 7.50
Sample variance of y 4.125
Correlation between x and y 0.816
Linear regression line y = 3 + 0.5x
Coefficient of determination of
the linear regression
0.67

9. Performance tests - why so hard?
Lies, damned lies, and statistics:
● arithmetic mean = 2.9
● median = 1
● standard deviation = 6 (only for normal distribution)
Use:
● percentiles
○ 50th = 1
○ 70th = 1
○ 90th = 2.9
○ 95th = 11.45
○ 99th = 18.29
Check percentiles implementation!

10. Performance tests - why so hard?
● Coordinated omission problem by Gil Tene
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/

11. Coordinated omission problem
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/
system.exit(0)

12. Coordinated omission problem
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/
system.exit(0)
samples 31
50 th 1
70 th 1
90 th 1
95 th 1
99 th 12.89
99,9 th 28.30
99,99 th 29.82
avg 1.93

13. Coordinated omission problem
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/
system.exit(0)
samples 10001
50 th 1
70 th 1
90 th 1
95 th 1
99 th 1
99,9 th 1.15
99,99 th 28.01
avg 1.03

14. Coordinated omission problem
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/
system.exit(0)

15. Coordinated omission problem
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/
system.exit(0)
samples 60
50 th 1
70 th 12.6
90 th 24.3
95 th 27.2
99 th 29.45
99,9 th 29.95
99,99 th 29.99
avg 8.25

16. Coordinated omission problem

17. Coordinated omission problem
total time 60 s
max 30 s
99th 1 s

18. Coordinated omission problem
total time 60 s
max 30 s
99th 1 s
time in % for max 50%

19. Coordinated omission problem
total time 60 s
max 30 s
99th 1 s
time in % for max 50%
expected time in % for 99th 50% - 1% = 49%

20. Coordinated omission problem
total time 60 s
max 30 s
99th 1 s
time in % for max 50%
expected time in % for 99th 50% - 1% = 49%
real time for 99th 60 s * 49% = 29.4 s

21. Coordinated omission problem
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/

22. Performance tests - why so hard?
● Coordinated omission vs Gatling
http://bravenewgeek.com/tag/coordinated-omission/

23. Performance tests - why so hard?
● Tests…

24. Performance tests - why so hard?
● Tests…

25. Gatling

26. Gatling

27. Why Gatling?
● non-blocking, asynchronous stack (scala, akka, netty)
● scala !!!111oneoneone (maven, sbt support)
● DSL
● recorder
● math is good
● reports
● integration & performance tests

28. Gatling DSL
class BasicSimulation extends Simulation {
val httpConf = http
.baseURL("http://computer-database.gatling.io")
.acceptHeader("text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8")
.acceptEncodingHeader("gzip, deflate")
.acceptLanguageHeader("en-US,en;q=0.5")
.userAgentHeader("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0")
val firstScenario = scenario("First Scenario Name")
.exec(http("Request name").get("/"))
.pause(7)
setUp(firstScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1)).protocols(httpConf))
}

29. Gatling DSL
class FirstScenarioV2 extends MySimulation {
val firstScenario = scenario("First Scenario Name")
.exec(http("Go to root page").get("/"))
.pause(7 seconds)
setUp(firstScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1)).protocols(httpConf))
}

30. Gatling DSL
import io.gatling.core.Predef._
import io.gatling.http.Predef._
class FirstScenarioV2 extends MySimulation {
val firstScenario = scenario("First Scenario Name")
.exec(http("Go to root page").get("/"))
.pause(7 seconds)
setUp(firstScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1)).protocols(httpConf))
}

31. Gatling DSL
class ComplexScenario extends MySimulation {
val complexScenario = scenario("Complex demo scenario")
.exec(http("request_1").get("/")).pause(7)
.exec(http("request_2").get("/computers?f=macbook")).pause(2)
.exec(http("request_3").get("/computers/6")).pause(3)
.exec(http("request_4").get("/")).pause(2)
.exec(http("request_5").get("/computers?p=1")).pause(670 milliseconds)
.exec(http("request_6").get("/computers/new")).pause(1)
.exec(http("request_7")
.post("/computers")
.formParam("name", "MyComputer").formParam("introduced", "2012-05-30").formParam("company", "37"))
setUp(complexScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1)).protocols(httpConf))
}

32. Gatling DSL
class ComplexScenarioV2 extends MySimulation {
val complexScenario = scenario("Complex demo scenario")
.exec(goToRootPage).pause(7)
.exec(searchFor("macbook")).pause(2)
.exec(positionAt(6)).pause(3)
.exec(goToRootPage).pause(2)
.exec(goToPage(1)).pause(670 milliseconds)
.exec(openNewComputerForm).pause(1)
.exec(addNewComputer)
setUp(complexScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1)).protocols(httpConf))
}

33. Gatling DSL
class ComplexScenarioV3 extends MySimulation {
val search = exec(goToRootPage).pause(7)
.exec(searchFor("macbook")).pause(2)
.exec(positionAt(6)).pause(3)
val addComputer = exec(goToRootPage).pause(2)
.exec(goToPage(1)).pause(670 milliseconds)
.exec(openNewComputerForm).pause(1)
.exec(addNewComputer)
val complexScenario = scenario("Complex demo scenario").exec(search, addComputer)
setUp(complexScenario.inject(atOnceUsers(1)).protocols(httpConf))
}

34. Gatling DSL - checks
scenario("DSL demo")
.exec(http("go to page")
.get("/computers")
.check(status.is(200))
.check(status.in(200 to 210))

35. Gatling DSL - checks
scenario("DSL demo")
.exec(http("go to page")
.get("/computers")
.check(regex("computers")
.find(1)
.exists)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/491666484294006138/

36. Gatling DSL - checks
scenario("First Scenario Name")
.exec(http("Request name")
.get("/computers")
.check(jsonPath("$..foo.bar[2].baz").ofType[String].notExists)
.check(xpath("//input[@id='text1']/@value").is("test"))
.check(css("...").transform(_.split('|').toSeq).is(Seq("1", "2")))

37. Gatling DSL - checks
scenario("DSL demo")
.exec(http("Authorize")
.get("/auth")
.check(regex("token").find(1).exists
.saveAs("authorizationToken")))
.exec(http("Authorized resource")
.get("/authorized_resource?token=${authorizationToken}"))

38. Gatling DSL - looping
repeat(5, "i") {
exec(goToPage("${i}".toInt))
.pause(1)
}
● repeat
● foreach
● during
● asLongAs
● forever
https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/32019/Why-Every-Marketer-Needs-Closed-Loop-Reporting.aspx#sm.0005lrqj811waf3ntmn1cul3881gr

39. Gatling DSL - polling
exec(
polling
.every(10 seconds)
.exec(searchFor("thinkpad"))
)
http://www.firmus-solutions.com/terms-conditions.html

40. Gatling DSL - conditions
doIf(session => session("user").as[String].startsWith("admin")) {
exec(goToAdminPage)
}
● doIf
● doIfEquals
● doIfOrElse
● doSwitch
● doSwitchOrElse
● randomSwitch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree

41. Gatling DSL - error management
exec(sendMoney)
.tryMax(10){
exec(checkIfMoneyReceived)
}
● tryMax
● exitBlockOnFail
● exitHereIfFailed
Alice Bob
Kafka

42. Gatling DSL - setup
setUp(myScenario
.inject(
nothingFor(4 seconds),
atOnceUsers(10),
rampUsers(10) over (5 seconds))
.protocols(httpConf))
.maxDuration(10 minutes)
● constantUsersPerSec
● rampUsersPerSec
● splitUsers
● heavisideUsers

43. Gatling DSL - setup
setUp(myScenario
.inject(atOnceUsers(10))
.protocols(httpConf))
.assertions(
global.responseTime.max.lt(50),
global.failedRequests.percent.is(0)
)
http://englishthroughlaxas.blogspot.com/2015/07/531-24-expression-of-assertion-emphasis.html

44. Gatling DSL - setup
setUp(myScenario
.inject(atOnceUsers(10))
.protocols(httpConf))
.throttle(
reachRps(100) in (30 second),
holdFor(1 minute),
jumpToRps(50),
holdFor(2 hours)
)

45. Gatling DSL - feeders
val companies = List("apple", "lenovo", "hp")
val feeder = Iterator.continually(
Map("company" -> companies(Random.nextInt(companies.size))))
val searching = scenario("Searching")
.feed(feeder)
.exec(searchFor("${company}"))
● RecordSeqFeederBuilder
● CSV
● JSON
● JDBC
● Sitemap
● Redis
● … http://favim.com/orig/201104/23/Favim.com-22725.jpg

46. Gatling DSL - resource inferring
val httpConf = http
.baseURL("http://computer-database.gatling.io")
.acceptHeader("...")
.acceptEncodingHeader("...")
.acceptLanguageHeader("...")
.inferHtmlResources()
.userAgentHeader("...")

47. Gatling - launching
● gatling:test
● gatling:testOnly x.y.z.GetUserSimulation

48. Gatling DSL - other goodies
● Custom validators
● HTTP
○ SSL
○ SSE (Server Sent Event)
○ basic cookies support
● WebSocket
● JMS
● Pluginable architecture:
○ cassandra plugin
○ kafka plugin
○ rabbitMQ
○ AMQP

49. Gatling DSL - logging/debugging
● logging ALL HTTP request and responses
<logger name="io.gatling.http.ahc" level="TRACE" />
<logger name="io.gatling.http.response" level="TRACE" />
● logging ONLY FAILED HTTP request and responses
<logger name="io.gatling.http.ahc" level="DEBUG" />
<logger name="io.gatling.http.response" level="DEBUG" />

50. Gatling DSL - reporting
================================================================================
---- Global Information --------------------------------------------------------
> request count 10 (OK=10 KO=0 )
> min response time 40 (OK=40 KO=- )
> max response time 177 (OK=177 KO=- )
> mean response time 55 (OK=55 KO=- )
> std deviation 41 (OK=41 KO=- )
> response time 50th percentile 42 (OK=42 KO=- )
> response time 75th percentile 43 (OK=43 KO=- )
> response time 95th percentile 117 (OK=117 KO=- )
> response time 99th percentile 165 (OK=165 KO=- )
> mean requests/sec 0.909 (OK=0.909 KO=- )
---- Response Time Distribution ------------------------------------------------
> t < 800 ms 10 (100%)
> 800 ms < t < 1200 ms 0 ( 0%)
> t > 1200 ms 0 ( 0%)
> failed 0 ( 0%)
================================================================================

51. Gatling DSL - distributed

52. Gatling DSL - distributed
IT system

53. Gatling DSL - distributed
● manually
● Gatling FrontLine
● Flood.io
IT system

55. About me
➔
➔ aludwikowski.blogspot.com
➔ github.com/aludwiko
➔ @aludwikowski