apache jmeter best practices and performance tuning tips

Apache Jmeter Best Practices and Performance Tuning Tips

NAVEENKUMAR NAMACHIVAYAMFounder – QAInsights.com

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Apache Jmeter Best Practices

Do not use GUI modeuse jmeter -n -t test.jmx test.jtl,

add a '-l' argument before the test plan name for listeners.


Use Remote and Distributed testing

for larger load testing


Do not load more than 300 threads

per Jmeter enginer


Do not add Listeners to your Jmeter

test plan


Do not add Graphs to your Jmeter test

plan


Monitor the command prompt of Jmeter during testing

(non-GUI mode)

Monitor the log during testing (GUI mode)


Erase the local path of all the CSV Data Set config files


Use naming conventions for all the elements


Use JTL file name (XML format) to store the logs

Apache Jmeter Performance Tuning Tips

Add following properties for better outputjmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=csvjmeter.save.saveservice.data_type=falsejmeter.save.saveservice.label=truejmeter.save.saveservice.response_code=truejmeter.save.saveservice.response_data.on_error=falsejmeter.save.saveservice.response_message=falsejmeter.save.saveservice.successful=truejmeter.save.saveservice.thread_name=truejmeter.save.saveservice.time=truejmeter.save.saveservice.subresults=falsejmeter.save.saveservice.assertions=falsejmeter.save.saveservice.latency=truejmeter.save.saveservice.bytes=truejmeter.save.saveservice.hostname=truejmeter.save.saveservice.thread_counts=truejmeter.save.saveservice.sample_count=truejmeter.save.saveservice.response_message=falsejmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results_failure_message=falsejmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format=HH:mm:ssjmeter.save.saveservice.default_delimiter=;jmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names=true


Add relevant Assertions and Post-processors elements

only


Do not use XPATH extractor


Use JSR 223 and Groovy for scripting


Generate reports after run

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