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Introduction We recently had the opportunity to speak with the developers at Technocrat about integrating load testing into their workflow. Their specific challenge was writing JMeter tests and scaling them in the cloud. Our conversation with their team provided us with greater insight into how companies like Technocrat use and draw value from load testing, and we wanted to pass those insights onto the testing community. Technocrat: Australia’s Most Experienced Drupal Team Operating out of Australia,Read 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 →

Steps to JMeter Scaling

 We have been asked some questions on how JMeter scaling works. First a little background and then we’ll talk about how you can do it.  If you are running JMeter locally and you need to simulate a larger number of concurrent users, there are limitations on the number of concurrent users you can run. It depends on the CPU and memory of the machine. And running a large test on a single machine canRead More →