Overall Satisfaction with JMeter
Jmeter is being used primarily to test functionality of web services for our project.
- Load Testing - it is easy to conceptualize the type of requests being made
- Plug-in support - if Jmeter doesn't come with something you need you are likely to find it on the internet. You could even develop a plugin yourself.
- Simplicity - the interface is pretty barebones and straightforward, you will not be overwhelmed by options
- It would be nice to more easily integrated into a CI system (like Jenkins/Hudson). There are workarounds out there but they are not very straightforward to implement.
- Memory usage of the tool can get high when using the "graphical" listeners in real time.
- It has allowed developers to test code before checking in, preventing "thrashing" between QA/dev.
Both tools are great, but JMeter allows for better performance/load testing, scalability, and is free.