Performance testing with Apache JMeter

Scrum projects work better when the produced quality is high and with safeguards to keep it high. So automated testing is key. Luckily, many good and free tools are out there. I find that often performance testing is poorly understood or is thought of as some sort of mystical art. In this post I show you how to do basic performance testing with Apache JMeter which you can adapt for your projects.

Say you make a new shiny website. Usually you want to know how many concurrent users the site can handle. Performance tests have 2 parts:

  • Performance test: what’s the timing of a single request?
  • Load test: how does the system hold under an expected load of requests?

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