JMeter Integrations with different tools

JMeter is a very common and useful tool in the performance testing world. Nearly all APM and process-oriented tools have a feature to integrate JMeter. 

Below is the list of articles to carry out the integration steps with JMeter.

• JMeter with Dynatrace
• JMeter with AppDynamics
• JMeter with Selenium
• JMeter with Docker
• JMeter with Applicare
• JMeter with Grafana

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web Performance Tool List - By WebPerf

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• Automate Client-Side Performance Metrics Collection
• Google WebPageTest API – A Practical Example

Website Load Time Statistics - By WebsiteSetup

As a Performance Architect, your responsibility is to suggest the tips for developing a responsive application especially when it directly interacted with a high user load. Nowadays client end performance of the application is also under consideration to analyse the overall performance of the website/application/system. WebsiteSetup published an informative article that provides tips to improve the client-side performance of the application. Refer to the article for more details:

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Web Performance Optimization - By Matt Watson

Web performance optimization occurs by monitoring and analyzing the performance of your web application and identifying ways to improve it.

Web applications are a mixture of server-side and client-side code. Your application can have performance problems on either side and both need to be optimized.

Refer to the full article to get a deep understanding:

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Related Topics:

1. Performance Engineering Video Tutorial

2. JMeter Video Tutorial

NeoLoad Case Study - SIS to SaaS upgrade

Total Performance Consultancy published as a Case study in which they provided the information when an entire SIS platform upgraded to a SaaS-based system; their main goal was to make sure the new platform could handle the dimension of their Fulton school. 

Download the Case Study Document

Related Learning Material:

1. NeoLoad Tutorial

2. NeoLoad Udemy Course

Performance Testing Effort Estimation

Refer to the document link to understand the estimation of Performance Testing Efforts. 

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Sunday Magazine - Why Change - By Neotys

Today in the Sunday Magzine section, we have included a document that will help you to understand the advanced features of NeoLoad and why do you require a change from a traditional performance testing tool to an advanced performance testing tool. 

Download the eBook Why Change? Performance Testing for the Modern Enterprise to discover the top 8 reasons enterprises are increasingly switching over to NeoLoad.

Related Topic:

NeoLoad Tutorial

Database Performance Degradation due to Multipath Issues - By Amardeep Sidhu

There are multiple articles and videos that have been shared with you in the past to enhance your knowledge about Database Performance Testing and Tunning.

Adding another article written by Amardeep Sidhu on his blog that uncovered the degradation in the performance of the Database due to multipath issue. 'Multipath Issue' could be a new term for you. So, to get a full understanding of the issue, root cause and solution refer to his article.

Article: Link

Related Video & Article:

1. How to suspect DB Bottleneck?

2. Factors Affecting Performance of a System/Application

Mobile App Script Recording via JMeter - By Hempreet Singh

Performance Testing has been involved in every piece of software which has direct or indirect interaction with the end-user. Mobile App is one of the direct user interactive on-device software. Hempreet has written simple and useful steps to record Mobile Application script through JMeter. Refer to his article and get knowledge of the same. 

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Related Topics:

1. Apache JMeter Video Tutorial

2. Apache JMeter Tips & Tricks

Risk Assessment in Performance Testing - By Stephen Jenkins

Risk Assessment determines the neediness of performance testing for each individual component in a software system. Hence Risk score or matrix is calculated for all the components integrated into a system. This risk score helps to determine the criticality of the component from the performance testing perspective.

Refer to the below link and get more understanding about Risk Assessment; knowledge shared by Stephen Jenkins.

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Related Articles

1. Performance Testing Risk Assessment

2. Risk Assessment Document Template

Software Testing Improving Electrical Hardware Designs

When we think of performance testing and calculations, it is typically with regard to the performance of a given web application or software. We use performance testing processes to “validate the performance of an application under load,” and thereby determine what if any changes need to be made to optimise that performance and improve results. It’s an entirely digital, online process driven by any of a number of performance testing and calculator tools.

Today though, somewhat similar concepts are being used to validate designs that are ultimately meant to drive hardware development. In other words, just as we use performance testing to validate application performance, we can use it to assess whether or not a detailed, digital design will produce an optimally functional piece of hardware. In a broad sense, this is a practice that now drives much of the engineering world, allowing us to digitally perfect and test designs before they become material. The most direct parallel, however, may well be in electrical engineering.

Specifically it’s the optimisation of printed circuit boards that comes to mind. The basic description of a PCB is that it is a small board that “mechanically supports and electronically connects” electrical components using a variety of features attached and seared into the surface. Most of us know these as the little green chips that are housed in our personal electronics, and the broader truth is that they exist in and drive the performance of virtually all electronics. They also happen to be clear examples of hardware products that are optimised via testing mechanisms in software.

In part, this is a description of how modern PCB design works generally. That is to say, it is done in software programs that help to guide designers and engineers through processes, so much so that the steps aren’t left out and complete, functional PCBs are produced. However, there are also tests and calculators specifically built into the process to assess PCB impedance, which in practical terms refers to the viability and reliability of sustained connections on the board.

Today’s PCBs operate almost exclusively at high frequencies, which can lead to uncertainties regarding impedance and by extension performance. For this reason, PCB stackup impedance calculators are now used in real time during the design process, to ensure controlled impedance as changes are made. These calculators are effectively software tools that test impedance between new connections and features, alert designers to problems, and essentially help to optimise final products.

To those who aren’t familiar with PCBs or electrical engineering in general this may seem to be an obscure example. But the fact is that if you consider your day-to-day electronics use, or even flip through the most popular electronic gadgets of the day, you’re almost exclusively considering products that rely on perfectly designed circuit boards. The impact of optimised design in this category is profound and worldwide.

The process of bringing about that optimised design, as it turns out, is not all that unlike testing out and fine-tuning web applications.

Tips for Oracle SQL Writing and Performance Tuning - By Ranjan Gupta

A useful article for a performance engineer to tune the Database Queries.

Note: It is observed that this article is readable only on mobile so use your mobile browser to read the article. 

Article: Link 

Related Topics:
1. Performance metrics Tier-wise

2. Web Server (Apache)

3. Web Server (ASP)

How to go from performance tester to performance engineer - By Scott Moore

What are the steps which lead you from Performance Testing to Performance Engineering?

Scott Moore; a well-known person; has described the approach in detail in his article along with a real-time example. Read the article if you are ready to switch:

LinkedIn Article

Additional Details: Performance Engineering aims to design the application by keeping the performance metrics in mind and also to discover potential issues early in the development cycle. Performance Engineering skill also helps to find the root cause issue quickly and provide an optimized solution to make the performance of the application better.

Master Apache JMeter - From Load Testing to DevOps: Master performance testing with JMeter

Learn how to get the most out of JMeter, improve the productivity of your apps, and integrate JMeter with your Agile and DevOps processes.

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NeotysPAC Speaker Submission Form for the Virtual Performance Advisory Council

Date: 23-24 March 2021

If you have something interesting related to Performance Testing and Engineering and want to share on a Global Platform then PAC event will be a good opportunity for you. 

More details of event and registration link are available HERE. 

The Past, Present & Future of Performance Engineering - By Alexander Podelko (Shared By Impact 2021)

Being a Performance Engineer, it is good to have a bit of knowledge about performance testing and how performance engineering evolves?

Alexander Podelko; a well-known personality in the Performance Testing and Engineering world addressed and shared some good facts about Performance Engineering which we should know.

Watch his video Link

Getting Started with Automated Continuous Performance Testing - By Neotys

Neotys Director of Customer Engineering Paul Bruce shares best practices and practical advice on 'Getting Started with Automated Continuous Performance Testing' you can also download the whitepaper and refer the approach.

Article: Link

Performance Problems Cheat Sheet - By Suresh Kumar N

Today morning, I got an interesting post on LinkedIn shared by Mohd. Sarfaraz. The demonstrator (Co-authored) is Suresh Kumar N. A good part is that the below screenshot shows all the major performance problems and their causes at one place. Refer to it and enhance your knowledge.

 

Systems Performance - Enterprise and the Cloud: By Brendan Gregg

Systems performance expert and best-selling author Brendan Gregg summarizes relevant operating system, hardware, and application theory to quickly get professionals up to speed even if they’ve never analyzed performance before. Gregg then provides in-depth explanations of the latest tools and techniques, including extended BPF, and shows how to get the most out of cloud, web, and large-scale enterprise systems. Key topics covered include

• Hardware, kernel, and application internals, and how they perform
• Methodologies for rapid performance analysis of complex systems
• Optimizing CPU, memory, file system, disk, and networking usage
• Sophisticated profiling and tracing with perf, Ftrace, and BPF (BCC and bpftrace)
• Performance challenges associated with cloud computing hypervisors
• Benchmarking more effectively

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Postman to JMeter Converter - By Loadium

Loadium introduced a simple converter that converts Postman Collection File into JMeter script. Now, no need to create separate scripts for functional and non-functional testing. You just need to upload the Postman Collection File and click 'Convert Now' button; that's it.

Note: This converter is best for Web API Testing

Refer to below link to access the converter:

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Cloud Performance Testing - By RadhaKrishna Prasad

Cloud computing, a new era's software resources which are shared among the different host. Virtualization and cloud have removed the dependency of local servers. Application, storage and other services are easily deployed on the cloud and can be accessed via Web. Since technology has been changed, so definitely it impacts the other traditional method of development and testing.

RadhaKrishna Prasad had written an informative and to-the-point article on cloud performance testing in which he described cloud, cloud performance testing approach and one case study. So, refer the link to get more details on cloud performance testing.

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