A quick guide for getting started with JMeter Recording 1 – Start your JMeter Recording with the Recorder Template Open JMeter and Select Templates from File menu Select the Recording Template and press ‘Create.’ You now have a test plan with some basics already configured Why use the template? The recording template will put in place a few items that are staples in JMeter tests. User Defined Variables are created empty, however, in many tests you are going toRead More →

Starting Point We used the provided tutorial and demo as our starting point. http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/load-testing-gwt-rpc-applications-with-ubik-load-pack-plugin-for-jmeter/ Highlights of UBIKLoadPack GWT With all the good features below I would like to add a very important note – without this plugin it is near impossible to test GWT applications.  The plugin reduces the complexity by many orders of magnitudes. Recording made easy Converts the gwt request format to XML Provides readable view in the Body Data Results viewable Results tree convertRead More →

Starting Point We used the provided tutorial and demo as our starting point. http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/easy-and-realistic-load-testing-of-http-live-streaming-hls-with-apache-jmeter/ We are playing back this video stream (http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/javafx/JavaRap/prog_index.m3u8)  for our Java friends. Highlights of UBIKLoadPack HTTP Live Stream Simplified Testing provide link to stream quick see the playlist control bandwidth Play all or selection More than standard metrics Buffer fill time Lag Time Play time Lag Ratio Download Time Use standard assertions can be applied to custom metrics ensure full video downloads  Read More →

Starting Point We used the provided tutorial and demo as our starting point. http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/load-testing-flex-with-jmeter-made-easy/ Highlights of UBIKLoadPack Flex Dynamically Convert AMF request to XML while Recording While recording through proxy requests will automatically be converted into XML. ULP_AMF Sampler created Simple viewing of object Make the tests dynamic via string parameter substitution Update XML with ${parameter} Integrate with Configuration and CSV Config Convert response to XML Extracts XML into Variable as a PostProcessor Extracts XPATH assertions or extractor as weRead More →

Simply put, over the past few weeks getting to know Philippe Mouawad  from UBIKLoadPack has been an absolute pleasure.  When we decided it would be interesting to work together and support the UBIKLoadPack we did not have a way to simply drop in all the plugins.  As a customer of both, you had to do all the work yourself.  He was very patient with us updating our architecture to make this very simple for users. IRead More →

We have extended our JMeter Plugin support and built a framework to easily adapt new Plugins into our architecture.  We currently offer the common plugins and some new ones coming very soon. Standard Extras ExtrasWithLibs WebDriver Learn more about our WebDriver Support Hadoop Selecting the plugin will make sure the proper libraries are packaged with your test and if required ask for some extra property configuration.    Read More →

The BlazeMeter Chrome Extension is a very good Apache JMeter test plan recorder directly in the browser.  It is a great improvement over the default JMeter recorder, which is a bit old-school and acts as a proxy on your system. Though BlazeMeter has not open sourced or contributed this back to the community, they do allow you to export valid JMeter test plans. We appreciate this free-to-use recorder and can quickly demonstrate recording and playing back at scale on RedLine13.Read More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing Everything else was build up to the review of this slide. What is available in  open source load testing tools?  There are so many ways to slice and dice all the great open source projects and this slide is not a deep review or demo of each project.  I looked at the dimensions of the projects in terms of content covered in this presentation. Distributed.  Does it support scaling loadRead More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing True story, but leaving out a few company specific details.  One of my first entries into managing larger teams was a project which had 40-50 developers and the middleware needed to support thousands of transactions per second.  The system was built with the work of a great team and the expertise of one amazing project manager, but we needed to start load testing. Realize this was circa 2004, so pre-cloud.Read More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing   If you have been through the process of build and running load tests, I am sure you have gone through all the emotions that come with it. From the fun of taking down your site or API, to the agony of not knowing where the bottleneck is, and eventually the eureka moment when you resolve the issue and run your next load test.  Here are some of my emotions.Read More →