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How to get started with load testing

Your first test doesn't have to take days. Learn the basics, build a strategy your whole company can follow, and pick the test creation method that fits your team.

Watch the first videoSee every way to create a test

Free videos and recorded live demos from the Gatling team.

YOUR LOAD TESTING PATH

From your first test to a company-wide practice

Learn the basics, scale your approach across teams, see how Intuit did it, then pick the test creation method that fits.

01 · First steps

Start with load testing

Two short videos with Heather Thacker, Developer Advocate at Gatling: what load testing is, then your first test from scratch.

02 · Company-wide strategy

Build a load testing strategy company-wide

Three talks with James Willett on making load tests you can trust, results leadership acts on, and a clear definition of done.

COMING SOON
Test realismWhy your load tests are lying to you
COMING SOON
ReportingWhy your load test reports don't land in the boardroom
COMING SOON
Definition of doneHow to know when you're done with load testing
03 · Customer story · Intuit

How best-in-class performance teams expand load testing coverage

Intuit rebuilt load testing as a platform capability every engineering team owns, instead of a specialist queue.

80,000+load tests run annually
97%performance test coverage across critical services
3,000+developers using Gatling, up from fewer than 100 in 2018
30 → 1fragmented tooling solutions consolidated

1,400+ services ship with embedded performance tests, and 100% of CI/CD pipelines include performance testing.Chaitanya Bhatt, Principal Engineer at Intuit, walks through the architecture and decisions.

Read the Intuit story
04 · Every way to create a test

All the ways to start a load test

Pick the path that fits each team and each test. Every option comes with a recorded live demo.

AINEW

Coding agent + Playwright

Browse your app in a real Playwright browser and your coding agent writes the Gatling test.

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Migrate

Convert an existing test

AI converts your JMeter test plans into Gatling tests you can version and review like any code.

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Low-code

Record a browser session

Capture a user journey with Gatling Studio and turn it into a Gatling test.

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Test-as-code

Write tests in JavaScript

Use the Gatling JavaScript SDK to write tests that live next to your application code.

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No-code

Build it in the UI

Set up requests and load directly in Gatling Enterprise with the no-code builder.

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Import

Convert from Postman

Start from an existing Postman collection and turn it into a Gatling test.

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Your first load test is closer than you think

Start free with Gatling Enterprise Edition, or talk to our team about rolling out load testing across your company.

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