Friday 3 May 2013

JMeter: the new standard for load testing

Apache JMeter is open source software Java desktop application, designed to load test and measure performance of web sites. It was originally designed for load testing web applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.

A important ecosystem has been developped around JMeter. Many companies are offering load  testing services based on JMeter, like Amazon or Blazemeter. There are also many JMeter plugins that have been created to extend its functionalities and better exploit the data provided by this open source load testing tools.

You can get more informatoin and download JMeter from http://jmeter.apache.org/index.html

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