JMeter Tuning Tips

Context You require to do Load test that requires thousands of thread. How will you configure JMeter so that JMeter performs well without any issues? Issues that you normally encounter with JMeter when using large number of threads are Out…

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Test strategy

What is it? What does it look like? As per James Bach “How we plan to cover the product so as to develop an adequate assessment of quality.” A good test strategy is: Specific Practical Justified Wikipedia defination “A test…

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Exploratory testing

Exploratory testing is a powerful approach yet widely misunderstood. Almost all testers, sometime or the other do exploratory testing in some way or the other. Once in an interview I asked the person “your entire test cases are passed is…

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Results Visualization using xsl stylesheet in JMeter

Using xsl stylesheet in JMeter with .jtl files Jmeter provide several .xsl files to visualize the result in human readable format outside JMeter tool. These are located in %APACHE_JMETER_HOME/extras folder jmeter-results-detail-report.xsl jmeter-results-detail-report_21.xsl jmeter-results-report.xsl jmeter-results-report_21.xsl 1. Open the Jtl file in…

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