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    JMeter

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AJMeter, from Apache, is a load and performance testing tool.

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    JMeter
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    JMeter
    Considered Both Products
    Apache
    Chose JMeter
    We only have compared it with LoadNinja and in many aspects Apache JMeter is a better option. The LoadNinja is the enterprise tool so it does not offer the same flexibility and integration with other systems. The community support is great with Jmeter compared to LoadNinja.
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    BlazeMeter is a cloud offering and can be useful if you don't have dedicated system resources for doing load testing. It also avoids cases where the testing system becomes the bottleneck.
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    Postman is really more about API testing, and was never aimed at performance/monitoring the way Apache JMeter does. If you find someone trying to use Postman this way... show them the way!
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    More threads supported, open-source, more reliable, and easy to work with. The User interface is very elegant and simple to use, as compared to other competitors.
    Incentivized
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    It is very costlier than Jmeter to manager for a multi-seat license. All company does not procure the license for costlier tools. Maintaining Load Runner scripts is difficult than JMeter scripts. You need skill resources to create and maintain the loadrunner scripts and tools. …
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    Although Selenium is designed for automating real-world tests in browser and JMeter is designed to perform load testing, in some cases, JMeter based tests may be enough to verify application functionality. These products don't directly compete with each other and it should be …
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    SoapUI is a bit easier to get rolling for people without development skills but if you have people with development skills JMeter shines. JMeter also uses significantly fewer resources on the client so you can be sure your testing isn’t restricted by the client machine.
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    Best open-source performance testing tool. JMeter has no alternative for performance testing. It is really easy to record and enhance scripts using this tool. It provides lots of free plugins which gives us much flexibility. It can be executed using GUI or non-GUI. Good tool …
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    It's very easy GUI helps the tester to perform various testing scenarios. Easy to configure test cases and modules which has proper and well-maintained documentation. Its an excellent tool for performance testing and running a variety of load tests, stress tests, and longevity …
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    The main and best thing is that it's an open source tool with the biggest community worldwide.
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    The recorder provided by JMeter is ok and if your team has no idea about programming you can use it to test your web apps without writing any code.
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    It has very powerful capabilities and for free!!! It's ease of use and installation and easy to get started are highlights. A lot of community support and youtube videos from JMeter developers to help you understand various functionalities within JMeter to support you. You can …
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    Jmeter is better for projecting a path to look into. Crystal only allows you to pull the specific data and display a set of data that you request. Jmeter allows you to feel out the direction the data is going as you go. Crystal also can have issues with graphing data correctly.
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    I have evaluated LOADUI (web free version) and it was a very unstable tool and I could not rely on those results completely as I was not sure how the tool was performing. It only generated the top 10 less transaction times and when Jmeter was in use, it was very effective in …
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    LoadRunner and Silk Test were the tools I used in the past to compare with JMeter. I thought LoadRunner had a more commercial appearance and it comes with HP support from your service provider. It also comes at a steep price. JMeter and LoadRunner have a similar learning curve …
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    • Free and good functionality.
    • Lack of reporting and data correlation and analysis.
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    It is best open source tool available in the market . Also it is easy to train resources and is also very useful for integration testing.
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    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 …
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    SOAP UI and LoadRunner
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    No licensing issue. Many blogs provide the issue noticed and resolution for the same hence no need to pay heavy maintenance fees.
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    I have used LoadStorm. But, with JMeter we have advantages for it being open source, as lot of our clients don't have the budget to invest in tools. It can be used to write complex scripts, multithreading framework allows concurrent sampling by many threads and simultaneous …
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    JMeter has a lot more functionality than Selenum. Also JMeter is better for backend or API testing, while Selenium is good for UI tests.
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    NeoLoad is far ahead of JMeter in terms of reporting and user interface, the turn around time is less compared to JMeter as there are enough experts in market.
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    Chose JMeter
    Java script friendly.
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    JMeter
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of Apache JMeter
    Feature
    Apache JMeter
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    17% below category average
    End to end performance management9.021 Ratings
    Integrated performance data8.522 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility7.521 Ratings
    Real time monitoring6.521 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection4.417 Ratings
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    Enterprises
    LoadRunner Professional
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JMeter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (39 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JMeter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apache
    JMeter is well suited for Java applications where the user can script the scenario once and make changes to accommodate for as many numbers of users for load test execution. The image and selection of any files or exporting files scenario is handled well.
    It is less appropriate to test Ajax applications where it is required to script click per use.
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    Pros
    Apache
    • Easy of use - in generate load like HTTP requests, and processing/analyzing the responses. No coding is necessary at the basic level, just need to understand load testing and the infrastructure being tested.
    • Automatic management of things like cookies to help with session state support - so you don't specifically have to worry about it or handle it
    • Lots of testing/configuration options to suit your needs in making the right load generation (sampling requests), and analyzing the results, including any pre and post processing of the results first. Things like the Beanshell/BSF pre/post processors, response assertion, regular expression extractor, XPath extractor, CSV data set config
    • There is a JMeter cloud service called BlazeMeter that I think would be useful for those that need to scale up high load without provisioning their own systems. I've not personally tried it though, but I recently attended a meetup presentation that highlighted nice useful features that BlazeMeter provides. One should evaluate the service if they are considering JMeter and need to expand beyond existing hardware resources.
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    Cons
    Apache
    • Jmeter requires many tweaks with respect to its configuration file and thread properties. users need to edit theses files themselves. There could be some interface where we can edit this fields.
    • Jmeter cannot handle more threads and hangs up when we increase the number of threads. This causes lot of inconvenience. In these situations, user can be notified that such change would be lead to slow performance so that user can do as required. The same appears when we try to view huge files on graph listener.
    • Jmeter should optimize the read and write access to output csv since it acts as overhead to the I/O performance. This affects our test results for the application which we are testing.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
    Price, Wiki and user sharing. Having access to the information provided by the developers and other open source providers is key for me. The ability to share information and get answers directly is very important to success in software testing. And the price of this product currently is amazing. Too many companies charge way too much money for products that are far behind in their value and pertinence
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    Usability
    Apache
    The purpose related to performance and load testing through Apache JMeter works fine but the usability of the tool should be improved quite a lot. If someone starts with the Jmeter fresh without prior experience, they need to put more efforts in understanding the tool. The UI is not that great which is the main reason not to give high rating on usability.
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    Support Rating
    Apache
    I have been using JMeter for the last year. By using this tool, you can make sure the system will work under varied loads. It helps us to simulate real time scenarios by creating required virtual users and make sure the application will work under load. Perform load, stress, and stability testing using JMeter.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apache
    I have used LoadRunner and Silkperformer, and so far Jmeter turns out be the easiest to use of all these. While each of them have their own ROI, Jmeter can be picked by anyone in hours and start testing within a day. While with other tools, we need to get license, install them (takes a while) and setup tests and firewalls, etc.
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    Return on Investment
    Apache
    • Good ROI on improving the performance of the application.
    • Finding issues in the performance.
    • Benchmark the performance results.
    • CON: Need skillset to create and maintain the scripts in Java.
    • Scripts are reusable and it is executed by any user.
    • Need Client and Server setup to execute the scripts.
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