1. Cph.pm 2013-01-29
Apache JMeter Introduction
Søren Lund (slu)
slu@369.dk

2. About Apache JMeter
The Apache JMeter™ desktop application is open
source software, a 100% pure Java 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.
From http://jmeter.apache.org/

3. My Focus
 Web Testing (HTTP/HTTPS)
 Load Testing
 Performance Testing
 Using test data (CSV files)
 Randomization (scripting)
 Reporting

4. Web Testing
 Black Box Test
 Need to know
 HTTP(S)
 Request/Response
 POST/GET
 Cookies
 HTML
 Recording in JMeter
 ”Developer Tools” (F12)

5. Load Testing
 How much traffic can we handle? (users,
requests, bytes)
 Need to know
 How many users do we have?
 Peak hours?
 Define test
 Scale down
 Define/find threshhold

6. Performance Testing
 What are the response times?
 What are the repsonse times under heavy
load?
 Need to know
 Common operations (e.g. Logging in)
 Eager/Lazy Loading usage
 Ressource hungry operations (e.g. Submitting a
form)

7. The Test Plan

8. Demo Time
(cross you fingers)

9. The End
Questions?

10. The End
Questions?