Automating Performance Testing Gates with Gatling and Jenkins

In modern software delivery, catching performance regressions before they hit production is critical. Manually analyzing load test reports is slow and prone to human error. This course teaches you how to automate performance validation by setting up global assertions in Gatling and integrating them directly into your Jenkins continuous integration pipelines. You will learn to establish automated quality gates that fail builds when response times or error rates exceed your defined thresholds. Through this written course, you will learn to: 1. Understand foundational performance testing concepts, service level indicators, and service level objectives. 2. Write Gatling global assertions to validate response time percentiles and success rates. 3. Configure Jenkins pipelines using declarative syntax to execute Gatling simulation scripts. 4. Analyze Gatling console outputs and pipeline logs to troubleshoot performance failures. 5. Apply modern pipeline-as-code practices to ensure reliable and repeatable performance gates. The course begins with the core terminology of performance testing and assertion syntax. You will then progress through step-by-step written explanations to write assertions, configure Jenkins files, and interpret pipeline execution results. This course is designed for software developers, QA engineers, and DevOps beginners who want to introduce automated performance gates into their delivery process, with no advanced prerequisites required. Start building automated performance guardrails for your applications today.