{"id":10192,"date":"2022-11-30T06:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=10192"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:16:15","slug":"jmeter-alternatives-k6-and-gatling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/jmeter-alternatives-k6-and-gatling\/","title":{"rendered":"JMeter Alternatives: k6 and Gatling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Janesh Kodikara,&nbsp;is a Software Quality Assurance Architect, trainer and mentor with over 23 years of working experience.&nbsp; Janesh created this Pugh matrix to evaluate JMeter alternatives: k6 and Gatling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatissixsigma.net\/pugh-matrix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pugh matrix<\/a> is used to &#8220;<em>identify the most probable solution among all alternatives<\/em>&#8220;.  As you can see, JMeter is the baseline and alternatives are compared to the baseline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thought his matrix was detailed and comprehensive. So we asked him to create an additional alternative: JMeter + RedLine13.  Here is the result of that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"607\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/d13vhgz95ul9hy.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected-607x1024.png\" alt=\"Comparison of JMeter with candidate tools \" class=\"wp-image-10234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected-607x1024.png 607w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected-178x300.png 178w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected-768x1296.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected-910x1536.png 910w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected-1213x2048.png 1213w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected-326x550.png 326w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/JMeter-Candidate-Tool-Comparison-Corrected.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes on the data presented above:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Weightage and selection criteria need to be set after detailed understanding of current state and desired state.<\/li><li>You can use the<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkinsights.net\/consulting\/pugh-matrix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Pugh matrix<\/a> for comparing new tools against an existing tool.<\/li><li>You should not be biased to any tool to make the process effective.<\/li><li>Additional thinking is required during to make the selection practical and realistic.<\/li><li>Avoid<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/g\/groupthink.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> group thinking <\/a>during the evaluation process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can contact Janesh directly at <a href=\"mailto:janesh.kodikara@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">janesh.kodikara@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janesh Kodikara,&nbsp;is a Software Quality Assurance Architect, trainer and mentor with over 23 years of working experience.&nbsp; Janesh created this Pugh matrix to evaluate JMeter alternatives: k6 and Gatling.&nbsp; A Pugh matrix is used to &#8220;identify the most probable solution among all alternatives&#8220;. As you can see, JMeter is the baseline and alternatives are compared to the baseline. We thought his matrix was detailed and comprehensive. So we asked him to create an additional alternative: JMeter<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/jmeter-alternatives-k6-and-gatling\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[219,283,596,606],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-cbaeckstrom","4":"post-10192","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blog","9":"post_tag-gatling","10":"post_tag-jmeter","11":"post_tag-k6","12":"post_tag-pugh-matrix"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JMeter Alternatives: k6 and Gatling - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Pugh matrix was used to evaluate JMeter alternatives: k6 and Gatling.\u00a0We asked to add another alternative: JMeter + RedLine13.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/jmeter-alternatives-k6-and-gatling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JMeter Alternatives: k6 and Gatling - 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