Load Testing with jmeter
Agenda
- What / Why?
- Walkthrough and Demo
- Questions
What?
Load testing is the process of putting demand on a software system or computing device and measuring its response.
Load testing is performed to determine a system's behavior under both normal and anticipated peak load conditions.
Why?
- Reliability Engineering
Why jmeter?
- Seemed like simplest solution for testing APIs
- Free
- Josh used it before and helped me navigate the UI
Alternatives that seem more focused on webapps (and appeared to be more complex):
- gatling.io
- neoload (not free)
Walkthrough and Demo
- To github we go!
- https://github.homedepot.com/bxr2249/jmeter-walkthrough
Next Steps
- Define your SLOs
- Use your SLOs to capacity plan your application
- If you are in production, you should have AT LEAST two instances
- Find out what will break your app
