Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New Test Series Start -- Automation Tool JMeter

Apache JMeter is open source software, a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.


What can I do with it?

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.


In this following Automation Tool series I will share the basic steps and execution QA cycles.


Step1: 
Download the JMeter Tool from the following location:  Go for *.Zip (binary) not source code (src)
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi