You need to try JMeter! I have and I don't regret it.
November 09, 2015
You need to try JMeter! I have and I don't regret it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with JMeter
We use JMeter in our company to test load and performance of our web sites. Our scripts leverage the flexibility and ease of use of JMeter to test the different pages of our websites and generate dynamic content requests. We hired the services of BlazeMeter to leverage their infrastructure to run the test in different regions and different concurrent user configurations to our different regional pages.
- Easy to use and parameterize.
- Can be executed from command line, so it can be easily plugged in with continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
- The script is contained in an xml file, so it's portable.
- It's free.
- UI is not very robust.
- Poor graphics and reports.
- Not very intuitive grouping of the tools, steps and plugins. Some are difficult to find, especially the first time you use it.
- Positive: thanks to JMeter we were able to assess the performance of our website and understand its deficiencies, and this gave us a baseline to be able to measure performance improvements and get to the standards set by our company.
- After the scripts were automated with JMeter the speed to measure performance increased, which in turn, increased our speed to market.
- BlazeMeter and HP LoadRunner
We found BlazeMeter's service to fit great with our JMeter scripts, since they execute our JMeter scripts and provide excellent reporting tools and graphs, besides multi region and infrastructure to support different configurations of multiple concurrent users. I have used HP LoadRunner in the past, and even tough it's much more user friendly, the cost of it and its performance made me choose JMeter as a much more flexible, robust and cost effective tool.