Performance is a key and JMeter is a solution
January 17, 2019
Performance is a key and JMeter is a solution
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with JMeter
JMeter is being used by our QA teams mainly for performance testing. We are into banking and finance domain. Hence, the performance of the bank transactions should be very rich. JMeter helps us to find bottlenecks around performance issues within our web apps and web services. JMeter also helps us to simulate different user loads in order to test web application under various load patterns.
- Jmeter is an open source and highly customized tool for your needs. There are open source JMeter plugins also available in the market to extend JMeter existing functionality.
- JMeter provides a very easy user interface and pluggable components, and different visual charts and summary report listeners. Also nowadays JMeter supports quite rich HTML reporting.
- JMeter can be used for volume testing, load testing, availability testing. Also, it allows the master and slave concept. Hence you can create multiple load generators and controllers, and JMeter will give you combined execution status.
- JMeter provides great documentation.
- To get a summarized HTML report, the user needs to configure a lot of things. It should be done with a single click like other paid tools in the market.
- Support to measure desktop based application performance.
- 100% ROI with more customized JMeter framework.
- We have fine-tuned a lot of performance issues related to our application using JMeter.
- The only negative ROI is you need highly skilled people who know coding for creating dynamic JMeter scripts.
- Micro Focus LoadRunner (formerly HP LoadRunner) and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
The main and best thing is that it's an open source tool with the biggest community worldwide.