2 minutes readKey takeaways Adding JMeter to PATH means you can run it from any directory rather than its install folder. Put the export in your shell profile so it survives a new terminal session. Confirm with which jmeter rather than assuming the edit took effect. In case you want to easily start Apache JMeter load testing… Read more »
7 minutes readKey takeaways Start with a thread group, an HTTP request and a results file: everything else is refinement. Ramp gradually so you can see where behaviour changes rather than only that it broke. Run from a machine that is not the server under test. Overview We are going to present how to use Apache JMeter… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways A mean with a large standard deviation describes almost none of your users. Percentiles show the tail, which is where the complaints come from. Report p95 or p99 alongside the median rather than the average alone. Standard deviation and percentiles are very helpful when comes to calculating the response times in a load… Read more »
< 1 minute readWe’ve released our load testing plugin for Jenkins CI. Use the Post build actions and define your load test limits in order to mark the build UNSTABlE or FAILED Easy multiple accounts access via the credential Jenkins plugin. More details here: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/LoadFocus+Load+Testing+Plugin Installation Steps: 1. Create your load testing account on https://loadfocus.com 2. Copy your… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways Header presets stop you re-entering auth and content-type headers on every test. Keep a preset per environment so a test cannot accidentally target the wrong one. Update the preset rather than individual tests when an API changes. We’ve implemented the Header Presets functionality in order to save time and reused same set of… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Decide what you are measuring and why before configuring anything. Choose the metrics up front, or you will report whatever looks best afterwards. Change one variable at a time if you want the comparison to mean anything. Below we listed what we consider 10 tips and tricks related to load and performance testing:… Read more »
< 1 minute readKey takeaways Basic Auth sends base64-encoded credentials in a header, so the load test just needs that header set. Use test credentials, never production ones, since headers end up in logs and reports. Confirm the endpoint returns 200 rather than 401 before starting the real run. In order to create load tests for URLs that… Read more »
