Developing performance tests
It makes sense to design performance test scenarios that are close to the real world. Performance test technology should support scenarios that not only ramp up a big amount of users, but simulate user behavior. Typical behavior could be, for example, a user visits the home page, logs in, follows a link to an article, adds the article to their shopping cart, and performs the purchase.
There are several performance test technologies available. At the time of writing, the arguably most used ones are Gatling and Apache JMeter.
Apache JMeter executes test scenarios that put applications under load and generates reports from the test execution. It uses XML-based configuration, supports multiple or custom communication ...
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