- Last Updated: [[2020-12-29]] - [[Load Testing Tool]] - Text-based load testing tools are inherently faster and more performant than GUI-driven ones because they are flat files that are easily read by every programming language and in every operating system. - Advantages of GUI-driven load testing tools generally consist in the user experience and ease of use, not performance. - The [[Low or No Code Movement]] actually does not contradict this, because supporters of that movement are against code, not text. Writing in human speech, for example, is still text and is still faster than GUI-driven programming or testing. [[Coding and writing are converging]] - In [[Load Testing Done Right using Gatling with Stephane Landelle]], [[Gatling]] founder [[Stéphane Landelle]] argues that functional testing tools have benefited from the speed of text-based tests for a while ([[JUnit]], [[Selenium WebDriver]], [[Cucumber]]), and it's time to bring the same benefits to nonfunctional testing. -