How to do load test in gatling with timers?

Question

I am newbie to the Gatling load test tool. I want to use the Timers(ex. Gaussian random timer, Uniform random timer) in the scenario like JMeter Timers. Is any way to use it?. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use the pause method. Out of the box it offers fixed and uniform random pauses. But you can also assign your own expressions to get the effect you're looking for.

See this example from the docs:

scenario("Standard User")
  .exec(http("Access Github").get("https://github.com"))
  .pause(2, 3) //uniform random pause
  .exec(http("Search for 'gatling'").get("https://github.com/search?q=gatling"))
  .pause(2) //fixed pause

Answer 2

Take a look at the quick cheat sheet: http://gatling.io/docs/current/cheat-sheet/. The stuff you're looking for is in the Base Structures section.

pause is the most basic option. It just pauses the simulation for the time period. However there are more advanced ones like pace and rendezvous which are a bit more sophisticated.