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Gatling vs Locust: What are the differences?

Developers describe Gatling as "open-source load testing framework based on Scala, Akka and Netty". Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.. On the other hand, Locust is detailed as "Define user behaviour with Python code, and swarm your system with millions of simultaneous users". Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.

Gatling and Locust belong to "Load and Performance Testing" category of the tech stack.

Gatling and Locust are both open source tools. Locust with 10.3K GitHub stars and 1.48K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Gatling with 4.28K GitHub stars and 912 GitHub forks.

Streamdata.io, SpectoLabs Ltd, and StellaService are some of the popular companies that use Gatling, whereas Locust is used by confirm IT solutions, Mirumee Software, and Cherry. Gatling has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 13 developers stacks; compared to Locust, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Pros of Gatling

Pros of Locust

6
Great detailed reports
5
Loadrunner
5
Can run in cluster mode
3
Scala based
2
Load test as code

15
Hackable
11
Supports distributed
7
Open source
6
Easy to use
6
Easy to setup
4
Fast
2
Test Anything

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Cons of Gatling

Cons of Locust

2
Steep Learning Curve
1
Hard to test non-supported protocols
0
Not distributed

1
Bad design

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What is Gatling?

Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance. Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.

What is Locust?

Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.

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What are some alternatives to Gatling and Locust?

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

BlazeMeter

Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.<br>

It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.

Cucumber

Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.

Apache JMeter

It is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

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