Apache JMeter Website Testing

Assembled by: Jim Connor under Approach and Web Development

I was looking for a simple web “stress” tool to test an issue with a current project. It needed to do more than just smack a single URL a billion times. I wanted to be able to log in and perform a couple typical user actions.

Apache JMeter was perfect for what I needed. It takes a little bit of research and time to set up a “Test Plan”, but it was worth it. And it’s free!

You can set it up to run any number of simultaneous users, and you can specify how many times to run the test (in loops), or to run in indefinitely until you stop it.

Pretty slick.

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