mcs-lite-jmeter-test

Use JMeter script to do API functional testing and server load/stability testing

Setup Environment

1. To install JMeter 2.13.

2. To install the following JMeter plugins

   • Throughput Shaping Timer
   • 3 Basic Graphs
   • Servers Performance Monitoring
   • WebSocket Sampler by Maciej Zaleski

   All the plugins can all be managed by Jmeter Plugins Manager.

3. To extend JMeter library support for JSON by adding 3 minimal-json-0.9.4*.jar files from minimal-json to ${JMeterRoot}/lib/ext folder.

Get Started

1. Launch ApacheJMeter.jar, which is under ${JMeterRoot}/bin folder.
2. Open the test script in JMeter and modify the user variable, envVariables_local, to fit your test environment.

Functional Testing

The test cases are in SmokeTest_lite.jmx. You can see the test result in View Results Tress.

Load/Capacity Testing

The test cases are in PerformanceTest_lite.jmx. You can see the test result in Transaction per Second and PerfMon Metric Collector.

Suggest to execute this performance test script in non-GUI mode with command

 ${JMeterRoot}/bin/jmeter -n -t PerformanceTest_lite.jmx -l LogFile.jtl

Here are some userful practices while doing performance testing via JMeter: 9 Easy Solutions for a JMeter Load Test “Out of Memory” Failure