Load testing tools are important to test a specific software's performance in actual or realistic environments. After all, a web application is only as favorable as its use in practical scenarios.

JMeter is a popular open source tool for load testing, with many useful modeling features such as thread group, timer, and HTTP sampler elements. This article complements the JMeter User’s Manual and ...

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What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

The reason to load test your client/server application is to detect multi-user interaction errors, right? Wrong! If this is your view of load testing, you are seeing only one dimension of this ...

In 1999, the world was a very different place. Less than 4% of the world population was using the internet—largely over dial-up modems. Google was just coming out of beta, sites like Ask Jeeves, Alta ...

We're relaunching PerfAgents with a renewed focus on performance test orchestration-bringing load testing, real user ...