6 minutes readKey takeaways JMeter is free, Java-based, and runs on any OS, which makes it the usual starting point. Build the test plan around a thread group, a sampler and a listener; everything else is refinement. Run real tests headless. The GUI is for building the plan, not for load generation. Apache JMeter is an open… Read more »
7 minutes readKey takeaways Throughput is completed requests per unit of time, and it plateaus before response time does. A rising response time with flat throughput means you have found capacity. Report it with response time; either number alone can be made to look good. Throughput is the metric that tells you how much work a system… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Response time covers the whole round trip, from request sent to the application reporting it done. An average hides the slow tail, so report the median with a percentile beside it. A response time only means something next to the load and environment that produced it. Response Time Response Time measures the performance… Read more »
