Wrk vs gatling

[James L.]

Techempower released an extensive benchmarks on various frameworks at www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r3

Wrk is the modern HTTP benchmarking tool, what are the pros and cons for using wrk and gatling?

Would Gatling work for stress testing on PHP framework as well?

[Nicolas Rémond]

Hi,

Gatling is framework and programming language agnostic as it works on the HTTP level. So, yes, it will work with all PHP frameworks.

Here is a list of things that would make you choose Gatling : 

- Great HTML5 reports

- Support of complex scenarios

- Easy to write checks for asserting the correct execution of your scenarios (Regex, CSS selector, JsonPath etc.)

- Easy to integrate with Graphite, Jenkins etc.

Wrk is more of tool in the category of "Apache Benchmark (ab)" - it will only test one single query. 

So, if you look for the raw throughput of a web server / framework, wrk is probably a tool to look at. But, if you are interested in testing a website or anything that is more complex that one single query, then, Gatling is definitively a tool you should consider. 

cheers

Nicolas

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[James L.]

Thank, great!