JMeter Cookbook

Chapter 5. Diving into Distributed Testing

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Testing applications with JMeter's master-slave setup
• Testing internal applications using JMeter and Vagrant
• Testing external facing applications using JMeter, Vagrant, and AWS
• Testing external facing applications using Flood.IO
• Testing external facing applications using BlazeMeter

Introduction

There are times when you will need to put more load on the applications under test. Such load may be more than a single machine can handle normally due to resource limitations such as RAM, CPU, and so on. As such, to get the target load on the application under test, you will need to distribute your tests across multiple machines. This is what is referred to as distributed ...