JMeter SEGFAULT Arjun Bhasin Chakori Macherla Gunjan Raghav Jaideep Singh Vicky Sehrawat
What does it do? Its an open source load testing software designed to measure performance and behavior of web applications Test performance on both static and dynamic resources – E.g. files, Perl Scripts, FTP servers, Java Objects, Queries Simulate heavy load on a server or network Has a GUI interface
History Stefano Mazzocchi of the Apache Software Foundation was the original developer of JMeter. Was developed in 2001 and maintained by Apache Software Foundation Java based desktop application
Features Can load and performance test different server types: – Web : HTTP, HTTPS – Database connections : JDBC – Mail : POP3 and IMAP Caching and offline analysis/replaying of test results Highly extendable via plugins
Limitations Can’t run and test embedded JavaScript or Flash Limited by your computer’s network connection Not useful for large trafficked websites (reports are not too detailed)
Installation and Demo Installing and running JMeter – Download from – Unzip and go to “bin” directory – Run: Windows : Double-click jmeter.bat Mac: Double-click ApacheJMeter.jar Unix/Mac: Run./jmeter from command line