JMETER

The load testing tool By : Pritesh Patel

WHAT IS LOAD TESTING?

Load testing is the process of putting demand on a system or device and measuring its response. Types of tests

Performance Testing - is usually defined as the process of exercising the system under test by feeding it the largest tasks it can operate with Stress Testing - to break the system under test by overwhelming its resources or by taking resources away from it

WHY LOAD TESTING?

Find Performance issue with your website Discover how many users your website support in order to prevent disaster. Finding task which required performance improvement.

HOW TO AVOID LOAD TESTING

My client not ready to pay for testing? My manager has assign lots of work with very tight deadline. I know there will be 2 to 3 users will visit this application and server can handle that much load.

LOAD TESTING TOOLS

Flood, open source from and for Apache JMeter, an open source tool LoadStorm, free and commercial hosted service (25 virtual users are free), offering different features for load, stress, regression, and endurance testing of web apps NeoLoad, commercial, for Windows, Linux, Solaris OpenLoad, commercial load testing tool and hosted service OpenSTA, an open source tool PureLoad, commercial, multiplatform load testing tool PushToTest TestMaker, an open source testing framework (load testing and more) QEngine, free and commercial, from AdventNet (free edition supports 5 virtual users) Reality LOAD XF, commercial, in the Gomez line of remote services riatest, commercial, multiplatform Flex UI testing Silk family of tools, commercial SQLQueryStress Performance Testing Tool, free, for testing SQL Server StressIT, commercial and free The Grinder, an open source tool Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (and 2005), commercial, for Windows, which includes Load Test Analyzer and Load Test Monitor tools. WAPT, Web APplication Testing tool, a commercial product, for Windows WatchMouse, commercial hosted load testing service WebKing, commercial, multiplatform WebServer Stress Tool, commercial and free, from Paessler

WHY JMETER?

Can load and performance test many different server types:

Web - HTTP, HTTPS SOAP Database via JDBC LDAP JMS Mail - POP3(S) and IMAP(S)

Full multithreading framework allows concurrent sampling by many threads and simultaneous sampling of different functions by seperate thread groups. Careful GUI design allows faster operation and more precise timings. Caching and offline analysis/replaying of test results.

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Highly Extensible:

Pluggable Samplers allow unlimited testing capabilities. Several load statistics may be chosen with pluggable timers . Data analysis and visualization plugins allow great extendibility as well as personalization. Functions can be used to provide dynamic input to a test or provide data manipulation. Scriptable Samplers (BeanShell is fully supported; and there is a sampler which supports BSF-compatible languages)

INSTALLING JMETER (ON WINOW)

Install Java (2.2. or higher) Download JMeter http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/index.html Add path of java installation in environment path variables.

RUNNING JMETER IN WINDOWS

Open command prompt (user administrative mode to avoid unnecessary hassle). Traverse to [jmeter installation path]\bin Run Jmeter.bat If you are running test behind firewall try following argument to pass with command prompt.

-H [proxy server hostname or ip address] -P [proxy server port] -N [nonproxy hosts] (e.g. *.apache.org|localhost) -u [username for proxy authentication - if required] -a [password for proxy authentication - if required]

ELEMENTS OF TEST PLANS

Thread Group

Setup number of thread Set up ramp up period No. of times test exectues

Controllers
Sampler (Send Request to Server) Logical Controller (Customize logic to send request)

Listener
Graph Result View Results Tree and many more.

Timers

Delay next request for certain amount of time

CONTINUE.

Assertions

Allow you to assert fact about responses received from HTTP request
Allow you configure settings Execute prior to sampler request Execute some action after sampler request

Configuration Elements

Preprocessor

PostProcessor

CREATING YOUR FIRST WEB TEST PLAN

ADDING USERS
5 users send 3 requests on cfminds.com and repeat it twice. (5 users x 3 requests x 2 repeat = 30 requests) Right click on test note >> Add >> Thread (users) >> Thread Group

ADD DEFAULT HTTP REQUEST

You can add default http request setting from ADD >> Config Element >> HTTP request default. This will let you define default http parameter for every request.

ADDING HTTP REQEST ELEMENT

You can add it from ADD> Sampler >> HTTP Request

ADDING LISTNER TO VIEW RESULT

Listner responsible for storing all of the results of our HTTP request and presenting in Visualize mode.

DEMO

GRAPH COMPARISON (5 USERS VS 50 USERS)

5 Users

50 Users

5 Users

50 Users

HTTP COOKIE MANAGER

You can add cookie manager by right clicking on test plan Add >> Config Element >> HTTP Cookie Manager. Usage:

Store and sends cookies just like browser Maintain separate cookie for each thread but share in all requests.

LOGIN IN TO SECURE PAGES

Find out action page of login form. Create HTTP Request Sampler and pass username, password and other required data. Most important : Add HTTP Cookie manager if session stores in cookie or depends on cookie.

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LOGIN WITH DIFFERENT USER IN EACH

THREAD Create CSV file with list of username and password Store in same folder where your test stores Add CSV Data set into your test tree from config elements Add ${USER},${PASS} in request sampler as parameter.

CONTROLLING REQUEST LOGIC

Logic Controllers can be used to control flow.

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RECORDING YOUR TEST PLAN

JMeter Proxy can use to record all request send to server. Create test plan with default http testing Add HTTP Proxy Server in Workbench node.

Define port# of proxy server Define URL Pattern to include/exclude

.* - all .*/.cfm CFM pages .*/.gif GIF file etc.

Start Proxy server. Setup Proxy server on your browser.

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JMETER DISTRIBUTED TESTING

JMeter client machine may not able to simulate enough users to stress server. Control multiple machine to run JMeter without copying test samples to different machine. Configuration:

Copy same version of JMeter to different computer. Add remote node IP in JMeter.proeprties file. Run JMeter on remote machine using /JMETER_HOME/bin/jmeter-server (in command prompt) Start JMeter GUI in host machine. Select any test plan. Go to Run >> Remote Start >> Remote IP Address.

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