Dynamic Requests from Code

One of the challenges that often presents itself when testing modern web applications is the ubiquitous reliance on asynchronous requests embedded in the user experience. It is possible to replicate most of these actions purely using request samplers in JMeter. However, there are many cases where it is desirable to get the response for a simple task – especially where it helps us attain our main test objectives. There may also be a need to requestRead More →

Continuously Increase Load with the JMeter Arrivals Thread Group

When you want to determine the ultimate load of a system, the JMeter Arrivals Thread Group allows the test designer to set a rate by which the load test will continuously increase requests.  By extension, this component is also useful in certain cases where it is desirable to increase request rates exponentially. In a previous post we outlined the various plugins in the Custom Thread Groups package for JMeter. In addition to the most commonly usedRead More →

LoadTestWorld 2021 Recordings

LoadTestWorld was begun as an opportunity for members of the load testing community to meet and share! And we held the first conference. Now the LoadTestWorld 2021 recordings are available. We are happy with the reaction to starting and hosting LoadTestWorld. We are already working on the next LoadTestWorld for 2022. Follow LoadTestWorld on Twitter for the latest info. LoadTestWorld 2021 Recordings All speaker presentations from LoadTestWorld are now available on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. The talks covered a rangeRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Apache JMeter is one of the most popular tools for load testing.  With RedLine13, scaling out your JMeter test plan on the cloud in is easy.  In this video and subsequent guide, we will walk you through running you first JMeter load test on RedLine13. Getting Started When running a JMeter test on RedLine13, we begin by logging into our account, hitting “Start Test“, and then navigating to the “JMeter” tab. Obviously we will need aRead More →

JMeter 5.4

When it comes to web products, load testing plays an instrumental role in analyzing and measuring the performance of the offered features (or services) under different load conditions. Consider a scenario where the application performs well under sub-optimal (and optimal) workload but its performance deteriorates when the workload is too high! Well, it could have a major impact on the user-experience since the requests might take much longer to process than expected. This is where ApacheRead More →

JMeter Tips for optimizing test plan RedLine13

While Apache Jmeter is packed with features and is extremely powerful, this popular testing tool can be a little daunting at times for first-time user that want to optimize their test plans. In this article we are going to take a look at 8 useful tips for optimizing JMeter tests plans which in turn help you become a more efficient tester. Don’t run Production Load Tests in GUI Mode While it’s okay to run small testsRead More →

RedLine13 was built for JMeter Cloud Load Testing. That gives you several advantages. This allows you to scale your JMeter tests to any size. It works with Apache JMeter and other open source platforms and plugins. And you can easily make testing part of your CI/CD environment with Jenkins and other platforms. Background Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running and maintaining the hardware needed for performance tests wereRead More →

Currently, the most popular approach for API testing is to send a JSON payload file instead of using data with parameters. This post will show how to do JMeter Load Testing with a JSON payload. To perform sending the JSON payload we need a different configuration. First, we need to add HTTP Header Manager into our HTTP Request in order to set Content-Type as application/json. We then put the JSON payload into the Body Data sectionRead More →

This is one of our most popular posts – JMeter Capturing Full Output. We’ve updated the post with new and updated content with the help of contributor Mustafa Mahir Kaplancı. See the updates at the end of the post. While running a distributed Apache JMeter test how can you capture the full output instead of just performance results? The following steps will show how to do what we call JMeter Capturing Full Output.. One is because ofRead More →

This is our most popular blog post and we’ve added more extractors. This post explains how to use the regular expression extractor to extract the key from the response of your first request and use the extracted key for subsequent requests. We call this JMeter Extract and re-use. Now you can use additional extractors, the JSON extractor and Xpath extractor. We’ve added that to the end of this blog post. You can use the regular expressionRead More →