About a year ago I wrote my initial article about distributed load testing with Gatling using Docker and AWS. Since that time I have improved my initial setup by quite a bit. This article describes my improved guide. I’ll also point out which improvements I made. This article references the…

On my current project we use the widely known test pyramid. That means we have a small set of slow end-to-end tests that runs against a fully deployed application: frontend, backend and a database with meaningful data. One level below that we have our so called frontend integration tests. Also…

Setting up Contract Testing using Pact, Angular with Karma and Jest and Spring Boot with JUnit 5 — When setting up Contract testing for our project we had some issues getting Pact working nicely with Angular Testbed and Karma/Jest. The code examples that are available are either outdated or simply not working when having multiple providers. In this article I will go step by step showing how to…

Update: I have published a part 2 of this article, containing a lot of improvements over my initial setup. You can read it here: Distributed load testing with Gatling using Docker and AWS — Part 2 Part 2 of my improved guide to setting up a distributed Gatling load test.medium.com Before our release to production we needed to perform a load test with more than 170.000 concurrent users. Since we already had experience running performance tests with…