Running webdriver code in JMeter

With the improvements in technology more and more of the business logic gets executed on the client side and it’s not easy to get a clear picture of the perceivable performance by using pure JMeter tests only. To extend these measurements JMeter-Webdriver plugin in JMeter can be handy to run WebDriver tests using actual browsers […]

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Jmeter – How to improve performance

Jmeter is a powerful load testing tool. If you are new to it you might run into some of the following problems: Out of memory error, it consumes a a lot of memory and CPU or even with a high end pc it can only work with 200 threads at the time. Here are some […]

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Mobile Website Load Testing

Internet usage on mobile devices increases every year. Even though mobile screens became bigger, its size is still significantly smaller than PC monitors. As the result the website won’t appear correctly or the content will be too small. Because of that the websites needs to be adjusted for the current device. For this purpose there […]

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BlazeMeter – Work with Selenium Webdriver

It was a long time we wrote about the BlazeMeter and during this time it comes more reliable, easy to use and there are also some new, great tools (Here you can find our latest post about BlazeMeter: Previous post about loadtesting with BlazeMeter). Maybe the most important feature is that now you can use […]

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Handling CSRF prevention tokens / dynamic data in JMeter

In today’s web technologies a common defensive mechanism against csrf attacks is to use a synchronizer token. This token is unique for each request and thus it blocks us from using the recorded JMeter test session off the shelf. The solution is to identify and extract the token from the html form. Identification can be […]

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Open source testing tools

There are tons of applications available for testing, some of them are free(open source), some of them are commercial. This time I have prepared a list of useful and open source testing tools. Selenium – Web app testing tool – http://seleniumhq.org/ Selenium is a suite of tools such as Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control and […]

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Loadtesting with Blazemeter

We have finally got our hands on an interesting tool called Blazemeter. As is the case with other engineers, we are always trying to extend our knowledge. First time I heard about Blazemeter was a year ago in a seminar video, while I was trying to expand my knowledge on test recording and performance report […]

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Getting started with JMeter II – record traffic with Jmeter

Here will be described how to simply record traffic with Jmeter. The HTTP Proxy Server allows Jmeter to watch and record the traffic and stores them directly into the test plan. First download and install all necessary packages: 1. Java http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html – After install setup the environment variables 2. Jmeter Download Jmeter from following website, […]

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Getting started with JMeter

JMeter may be used to test performance, to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. First download and install all necessary packages: 1. Java – http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html – Setup the environment variables 2. Jmeter – Download Jmeter from following website, […]

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How to integrate a JUnit4 – Webdriver test into JMeter

JMeter is an open source load testing tool, with many capabilities. One of the many interesting things which can be done is to integrate a webdriver test into a JMeter test suite. Before start make sure that Java and JMeter properly installed, and the webdriver libraries are downloaded. You can download them from the following […]

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