JMeter is awesome
May 13, 2014
JMeter is awesome
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with JMeter
I used Jmeter directly to load test a web UI in a previous role and my current employer uses it in their QA department. The main thing I love about it is that it does such a unique job of operating in a way that enables people with a diverse range of skill sets to get what they need out of it. If you just want to run a test that someone else created and analyze the stats, you just need to drop a file and you're good to go. At the other end of the spectrum, if you're building a test and want to get very specific about the test's behavior, you have a massive array of tools at your disposal. I recommend it strongly to anyone doing GUI testing.
- Modular test construction
- Detailed statistical reporting
- Exportable test design
- The level of detail it provides can be overwhelming at times for newbies. It would benefit from some improvements that made it easier to quickstart
- It provided systemized front end testing that allowed us to set testable metrics for our UI performance at my last job. We simply didn't have a way of doing this before.
- Once our team got over the initial learning curve, it was very easy to maintain and improve our testing which made increasing the level of quality we were providing trivial.
- The stats don't simply measure averages, they gave me std. deviation info which let me produce reports showing how stable our response times were - which was incredibly useful as periodic back end load might not break the overall average, but it can ruin std. deviation.
I honestly don't recall finding anything that did what JMeter did. It's in a league of its own.