title: Apache JMeter link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/apache-jmeter/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 4779 created: 2013/05/11 01:34:51 created_gmt: 2013/05/11 05:34:51 comment_status: closed post_name: apache-jmeter status: publish post_type: post

The InfoSec Institute has a good 3 part series introducing the Apache JMeter web testing tool, see links below. JMeter is a Java application that allows you to simulate various web client behaviors in order to test the functioning and performance of web servers and web applications. Here are the links to the series: Apache JMeter: Part 1 Apache JMeter: Part 2 Apache JMeter: Part 3 What I really like about the above is that it's clear, concise and provides concrete examples. The JMeter User Manual provides further detail for those who have gone through the above tutorial. The JMeter wiki contains a wealth of information, including tutorials and links to additional resources. I've used JMeter to stress test web server before releasing them to SQA, as well as to debug problems with components like OpenAM's Web Agent. There are even options allowing for testing LDAP operations, very useful now that slamd is no longer being maintained (most modern LDAP servers are pretty hard to crash: slamd was the Great Equalizer when it came to pushing products past their limits). JMeter test plans are saved as XML files. Here's a simple one that I cooked up as an example: [code language="xml"] ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> false false continue false 1 200 1 1368247717000 1368247717000 false betasite.example.com 80 4 false / GET true false true false false

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