Archive for the ‘JMeter’ Category

Performance Testing MQ with JMeter

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

This is a relatively new example of how to use JMeter with WebSphere MQ. This approach is a clever way of inserting messages into MQ using a JMS sampler (point to point) with a JNDI binding within MQ. I had not heard of this approach before and am sure it will ...

Performance Testing with Apdex

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Often when performance testing in a black box environment, you are left with the onerous responsibility to report against response time performance. A typical approach by performance testers is to rely on 95th percentiles, which is effectively a Service Level Agreement (SLA) saying that 95 percent of all my samples have ...

Why do I get an “Error 501/505 - Not implemented or not supported” in JMeter?

Friday, August 8th, 2008

This is most likely because the JMeter recording proxy does not support the https protocol. If it's a screen you can live without, you can just stop/start the proxy recorder around that page (I use the Firefox plugin called FoxyProxy to quickly switch between different proxy configurations). However, if it is ...

JMeter Tips and Tricks - Correlating with Regular Expressions

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 ...

JMeter Tips and Tricks - Better (More Pretty) Graphs

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 ...

JMeter Tips and Tricks - Application Simulation Models

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 ...

Performance Testing Flex Remoting (AMF) with JMeter

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

[UPDATE] this has since been resolved! JMeter support rocks :D URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=661141&view=rev Log: Bugs 44808 & 39641 - Proxy support for binary requests --- You may still find the ruby proxy idea interesting ... --- The Action Message Format (AMF) is a binary protocol that Flex applications use to remotely communicate with the server. I've tested ...