Build executable JAR for Gatling load test

Question

I am new to Gatling (2.1.2) and want to do a small prototype project to show to my colleagues.

According to the quick start page, there are several ways I can run a

Answer 1

I've recently blogged about this Creating a versionable, self-contained (fat-/uber-) JAR for Gatling tests, the source of which can be found in jamietanna/fat-gatling-jar.

For a Maven project, the steps would be as follows.

The main things you need are to add the dependency on gatling-charts-highcharts:

    
    
        
            io.gatling.highcharts
            gatling-charts-highcharts
            ${gatling.version}
        
    

Next, you need to make sure your Gatling scenarios/simulations are in src/main instead of src/test.

Finally, you can use the maven-shade-plugin to build an executable JAR which uses Gatling's CLI runner as the mainClass:

    
    
        
            
              org.apache.maven.plugins
              maven-shade-plugin
              3.1.1
              
                
                  
                  
                    *:*
                    
                      META-INF/*.DSA
                      META-INF/*.SF
                      META-INF/*.RSA
                    
                  
                
              
              
                
                  package
                  
                    shade
                  
                  
                    
                      
                        io.gatling.app.Gatling