JMeter

Infobox Software
name = Jakarta JMeter



caption =
developer = Apache Software Foundation
latest release version = 2.3
latest release date = release date|2007|09|24
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
operating system = Cross-platform
programming language = Java
genre = Load Testing
license = Apache License 2.0
website = http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter

JMeter is an Apache Jakarta project that can be used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services, with a focus on web applications.

JMeter can be used as a unit test for JDBC [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-db-test-plan.html database connections] , [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-ftp-test-plan.html FTP] , [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-ldap-test-plan.html LDAP] , [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-ws-test-plan.html Webservices] , [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-jms-topic-test-plan.html JMS] , [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-web-test-plan.html HTTP] and generic TCP connections. JMeter can also be configured as a [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-monitor-test-plan.html monitor] , although this is typically considered an ad-hoc solution in lieu of advanced monitoring solutions.

While JMeter is classified as a "load generation" tool, this is not a complete description of the tool. JMeter supports assertions to ensure the data received is correct, per thread cookies, configuration variables and a variety of reports.

ee also

*Performance testing
*Performance Engineering
*Software testing
*iMacros
*Selenium

External links

* [http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ Official JMeter website]

* [http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-jmeter/JMeterLinks Apache's Wiki for JMeter]

* [http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/artigos/verArtigo.php?codigo=8126 Jmeter use command]