In my last post I covered the Challenges of Performance Testing in a Scaled Down Environment. This week, I’m going to address what you should check when scaling down for a performance te

It’s been an exciting week here at BlazeMeter. In last week’s blog post, our CEO Alon Girmonsky revealed our revolutionary new FollowMe technology – a feature that allows you to run

Learn to use the JMeter HTTP Cookie Manager element. Handle browser cookies in your load test by adding the HTTP Cookie Manager to your performance script.

Yep - you read it correctly. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that we’ll soon say goodbye to test scripting, scheduling, and preparation as we previously knew it.

In an ideal world, we’d perform load testing on applications by running tests on an exact copy of the live production environment - including the application components, configuration and demand.

Before discussing UI and API load tests, there are a few key differences we should take into consideration. For a UI, you want to test the load of an actual user scenario. For example: logging in,

This is the third post in our series on “Using JMeter Functions”. Missed the last two? Take a look at Using JMeter Functions - Part I and Using JMeter Functions - Part II .

JMeter has three types of JMS samplers, that support two types of JMS testing, and in this article I will cover them.   The first thing that needs to be done is provide JMeter with a jar file c

This post will cover the use of the JMeter Synchronizing Timer. First, let’s define when you’d like to use the JMeter Synchronizing Timer.   A high-level overview of performance tes

BlazeMeter today announced its general availability on Red Hat’s OpenShift Marketplace, a one-stop shop for cloud application development solutions.

Do you think the JMeter GUI is a good GUI?     After all, the GUI is always considerate, shows up on time, is willing to carry it's share of the load....   On one hand, the GUI

ASP.NET is a unified web development model which allows developers to quickly build enterprise level dynamic web applications. It was released by Microsoft in the early 2000s and became an industry

Debugging is, arguably, the most important software development practice. Software doesn’t work immediately upon coding: you need to detect bugs and fix them. Apache JMeter scripts are no exception.

In our previous post we discussed handling pages and resources that are protected with Basic HTTP Authentication. In this post we will provide a walkthrough of how to deal with advanced external