QALIPSIS User guide

Welcome to QALIPSIS, your powerful ally in performance testing and system validation! This comprehensive guide will help you harness the full potential of QALIPSIS to ensure your applications perform reliably under real-world conditions.

What’s Inside This Guide

This documentation is structured to take you from your first steps with QALIPSIS to advanced usage scenarios:

  • Get Started - Jump right in with our quickstart guide and learn how to bootstrap your first QALIPSIS project

  • Core Concepts - Understand the fundamental building blocks like minions, scenarios, and assertions

  • Up and Running - Master different deployment modes, from simple setups to advanced distributed configurations

  • Develop Scenarios - Learn to create sophisticated test scenarios that truly reflect your users' behavior

  • Plugins - Extend QALIPSIS’s capabilities with our rich ecosystem of plugins for Cassandra, Kafka, MongoDB, and more

  • Automation & CI/CD - Integrate QALIPSIS into your development pipeline for continuous performance validation

Ready to Start?

If you’re eager to see QALIPSIS in action, you can:

  • Follow our quickstart tutorial to test a REST API

  • Explore our examples in the Github repository

  • Learn about the core concepts to build a solid foundation

Whether you’re performing load tests, validating system behavior, or ensuring data consistency, QALIPSIS provides the tools and flexibility you need to confidently assess your system’s performance.

New to QALIPSIS? We recommend starting with the REST API testing tutorial to get hands-on experience quickly.