Thursday, September 25, 2014

Getting started with Jmeter - Installation

Apache Jmeter is a pure Java desktop application designed to load test client/server software (such as a web application). It may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources such as static files, Java Servlets, CGI scripts, Java objects, databases, FTP servers, and more. JMeter can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types.


The easiest way to begin using JMeter is to first download the latest production release and install it.
You may find the link over here http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
It requires JDK 5 or higher.

Download the intended versions it can be Binaries or Source. Unzip the files to any folder.The executable script for Apache JMeter is located in the bin directory.

The executable script for Windows platform is jmeter.bat for Linux systems it will be jmeter.sh
These scripts are used to start JMeter in GUI mode. Double click the jmeter.bat script to start the tool.




You should be able to see the GUI of Jmeter.

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Start using it!



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