Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Another post in this current theme of JMeter tips and tricks... You will hear LoadRunner consultants preaching to the converted about the requirement to correlate data accurately. What they're referring to, is making sure that dynamic data received by the client from the server (typically in a response body, header ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
This plugin has been around for a while and it's definitely worth including in your JMeter library if you want to go for a glossy finish! The StatAggVisualizer will transform your graphs
from this to this
If you roll-up your transactions into separate transaction controllers as I demonstrated in a previous ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
When performance testing I often need to spy on TCP (http) traffic between the client and server on a frequent basis. This is pretty much a staple of any performance test script development effort.
In the past I've relied heavily on trace options within LoadRunner and the like, but often find ...
Posted in OSX, Ruby, Tools, Productivity, Windows | 4 Comments »
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I've been working on a light weight performance monitoring solution which can be hosted on a LAMP (or WAMP, or OSX =) installation and uses the Google chart API to present data. Data is populated by custom Ruby scripts that either use ssh or perfmon (typeperf) to collect performance metrics ...
Posted in Statistics, Analysis, Tuning, SiteScope | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I've recently started following a blog which sets weekly programming challenges. I'm getting sick of Nintendo DS brain training and thought I'd try something more relevant to my line of work. Also, this gives me a good opportunity to learn more about my favoured scripting language at present, which is ...
Posted in Ruby, Programming | No Comments »
Monday, July 7th, 2008
I've been working with JMeter of late and after speaking with some people at conferences and the like, I thought it would be good to share what I've learned along the way in building, structuring and executing JMeter test plans.
One of the first things I like to do when performance ...
Posted in Testing, JMeter | 17 Comments »
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Recently I attended Railscamp 08 in Sydney Australia for a weekend of code, beer and bzflag. For my 'project' I decided on brushing up my my Ruby skills and constructing a simple framework from which I could structure watir test cases.
Specifically I wanted to achieve the following:
Create some form of ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
If you are a rails fan you will probably recommend using active record instead, but if you just want to hack away at your mysql db from within your Ruby code, you may find this handy...
I'm currently using a wamp box to serve up content for performance metrics. What I ...
Posted in Ruby, Windows | 2 Comments »
