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Summary

Gatling is a framework used to perform load and performance non-functional testing against software components. It officially supports HTTP, WebSocket, Server-Sent-Events and JMS interfaces. It fits well in development pipelines and has rich reporting allowing for continuous monitoring of metrics. To ensure performance, tests are written in Scala and a custom DSL.

Opinion(s)

Gatling is already used extensively across our teams to perform load and performance non-functional tests as part of their CI/CD pipelines. For this reason, I believe it should go into the ADOPT ring.

However, I am not which quadrant it is best placed in.

• Language & Framework - It is a collection of libraries and a DSL for writing performance tests as code.
• Tool - Beyond the coding of the performance tests, it does also provide good report tooling using in CI.CD systems.

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DECISION: To fall under Tool quadrant and under Adopt ring. It is more than just a collection of libraries and provides a whole ecosystem of tooling.