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JMeter Articles

• Developer Tutorial - By Mike Stover and Peter Lin

• Load Testing your Applications with Apache JMeter - By Keld H. Hansen 2003-02-05 (Java Boutique, JMeter 1.8)

• Using JMeter - By Budi Kurniawan 2003-01-15 (On Java, Jmeter 1.8)

• Regression Testing With JMeter (PHP Builder, JMeter 1.8)

• AN OVERVIEW OF LOAD TEST TOOLS - By J. BURET and N. DROZE 2003-02-27 (objectweb, 1723kB PDF file, JMeter 1.8?)

  • Covers OpenSTA, Diesel Test, Test Maker, Grinder, Load Sim, JMeter, Load Runner (Load Test) and Rubis.

  • Also includes a long list of applications from 123 Load Test to Zeus.

• Putting Your DB2 Database to the Test: Measuring Performance with JMeter - Kulvir Singh Bhogal, March 2003 (IBM Developerworks, JMeter 1.8)

• Load Testing with Apache JMeter - Javid Jamae and Kulvir Sign Bhogal, December 2003 (Devx, JMeter 1.9.1)

• So you want high performance - By Peter Lin 20-9-2003 (Tomcat Resource page, 311KB PDF)

• Follow up Performance testing article - By Peter Lin updated 2-29-2004 with corrections (Apache, 715kB Zip file, includes 1st article)

• Introduction to JMeter for beginners - blog entry on Tuesday April 20 - By Peter Lin 4-20-2004

• Using Apache Access Logs with JMeter Written by Geoff Mottram. Includes some JMeter tips and archive of scripts.

• Test your Web Application’s Performance Written by Martin Gajdos - April, 2007. A step by step tutorial on how to use jMeter as a web stress testing tool.

Third Party Resources

• http://www.badboy.com.au/ - A browser recording tool that can output JMeter test files

• http://www.programmerplanet.org/ant-jmeter/ - Using JMeter from Ant. (now included in JMeter in the extras directory)

• Quartz Software Plugins - A commercial plug-in for JMeter that provides features for parameterizing test scripts while you record them in your browser. Focuses on automatic regular expression generation, and it allows users to test their regular expressions at the time of script recording.

• JMeter Resources - Articles, Books, Tips, Tutorials, Wiki.

• Toggle IE proxy settings - adds a button to the IE toolbar which enables and disables the proxy

• Toggle Mozilla/Firefox proxy settings - proxy switching add-in

• Statistical Aggregate Report - New visualizer plugin featuring a much cleaner graph than the standard Graph Report. Source code available.

• Enhanced JDBC Sampler - New jdbc sampler plugin capable of doing prepared statements, etc. Source code available.

• Convert LoadRunner script to JMeter - A perl script to convert scripts created using popular commercial software to JMeter scripts

• Markov4JMeter - Open source (Apache License Version 2.0) JMeter plug-in allowing to extend a Test Plan by probabilistic user profiles based on Markov chains and elements known from state diagrams, e.g. guards and actions. Moreover, Markov4JMeter allows to vary the number of active concurrent threads during a test run based on user-definable mathematic formulae.