In my previous blog post, I presented you how to create a load testing scenario based on a recorder. While working on it, I faced small problems that required few fixes which were very repetitive (and you know I love to automate as much as possible 🙂 ). Amount the issues I faced, there were: In this blog post, we…
Creating load test scenario on a web application might look easy: In practice, it is much more complex than that when you want to manage variables elements like usernames, session IDs, and, in case of M-Files, a Vault ID. Also, JMeter does not manage client-side java script and, if application requires it, you must “emulate” it with some code. Luckily,…
A typical web application architecture with a load balancer, two application servers and a database looks like this: If you run a JMeter, or any load test tool, from one unique server or workstation, the load balancer will most likely route all traffic to only one of the application servers. Why is that? Mainly because the load balancer uses the…
Writing an Apache JMeter scenario is not an easy task. Debugging a scenario is even harder. One might think that JMeter is simply recording some browser actions and that’s it, and you are good to go for a load test. This could be valid if the scenario does not require any login. When it does require login, there will be…
Lately, I played a lot with the de facto standard for monitoring visualization (ie. Grafana). It can display your data with great dashboard capabilities. On the other side, JMeter, a highly customizable load test tool, has visualization possibilities, but with an old-school aspect and not so dynamic. So, I wondered, would there be an option to get both together to…
I want to improve the Virtual User (VU) I created in my previous blog by adding dynamic browsing of the shop web site. Indeed, as VU is based on a HAR file, it is statically browsing the website. Thus, if the website is evolving like a new species is added, the VU will never browse to it. For now, it…
OctoPerf is a SaaS tool based on Apache JMeter, the load test functional behavior and measure performance reference tool. Among others, it has several advantages compared to JMeter: To start creating a scenario with OctoPerf, the easiest is to record it with our browser. HAR File Format HAR file is a JSON-formatted file which contains all Web browser actions and…
