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Are load testing results affected by location, e.g. India vs. USA
It is very likely you will get differing results. Especially in response times. This is mainly due to latency caused by the Geographical distribution. This will become important if response times ...
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What is recommended hardware infrastructure for running heavy JMeter load tests
It is impossible to say something like "this hardware will able to simulate that much virtual users" as the maximum load you can produce from hardware strongly depends on the nature of your test.
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JMeter: Getting error in non GUI mode
Answering the comments above,
Well I had Java and Jmeter installed correctly with ClassPath and everything. I also tried running Command Prompt as Administrator but got the same result. There was no ...
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Can a proportionately scaled down testing environment find performance load issues?
No. The items you mention scale very differently and there are far too many factors and resources that will get used.
For instance if I time requests on a local server using an application I'll find ...
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Can a proportionately scaled down testing environment find performance load issues?
Does this actually catch, before production, many of the "surprise"
problems we might anticipate? Or is there a more fundamental flaw in
the approach that will cause deleterious changes to pass ...
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Is applying the Ramp up period mandatory while doing load testing with huge load?
You have 1 Master and 2 Slaves.
The total load being generated is 500 + 500 = 1000.
Since you mention that the server health is good during the test execution. Yet, you are getting an Internal ...
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Is it possible to do load testing of java swing application with Jmeter?
From Apache JMeter's website we get this,
Ability to load and performance test many different server/protocol
types:
Web - HTTP, HTTPS
SOAP / REST
FTP
Database via JDBC
LDAP
Message-oriented ...
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Useful resources to start to learn Gatling
I learn Gatling using the resources I found online and experimentation. Just google "Gatling tutorial", there are plenty of links to pages showing Gatling basics, many focus on different aspects so it'...
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Setting a Connection time out in Jmeter
Yes, there is a way possible to do this. You need to add a 'HTTP Request Default' configuration element from 'Configuration Elements' option i.e. Right click test plan and add this 'HTTP Request ...
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Maximum Number of Threads in Jmeter
This does not only depend on the CPU of the computer, but also the operating system, memory and maybe disk IO speeds.
There is only one way to find out and that is to try and ramp up until either the ...
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In load testing, what is a 1% test to assess demand?
You're taking the words out of context:
You should test at the maximum load that you expect to encounter. In order to accurately assess demand, you can run a 1% test to determine how much traffic ...
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Running JMeter threads in sequential mode
Option 1: You can keep the user count as 1 and Loop count as 100 in your thread group. This way your script will be executed 100 times, without concurrency of users and one user at a time. you can use ...
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Difference between Scalability Testing And Capacity Testing?
A web search of the terms resulted in,
Scalability Testing, is the testing of a software application to measure its capability to scale up or scale out in terms of any of its non-functional ...
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What is a cost-effective way to load test a web application using 1200 virtual users?
Here you check.
There are 58 (and counting) free and open source load testing tools which you can utilize.
If you are looking for the narrowed-down list check out Open Source Load Testing Tools: ...
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Load/stress testing framework for AWS EC2 instances with startup/shutdown?
Before anything, I would recommend you to think about an important point:
What is the main purpose behind your test?
Try to define your SLO/SLIs first (KPIs).
For example if the KPI is "...
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How to enforce run Once Only Controller in Jmeter
As per Once Only Controller documentation:
The Once Only Logic Controller tells JMeter to process the controller(s) inside it only once per Thread, and pass over any requests under it during ...
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How to click a button from multiple buttons on same page in selenium web driver?
Why your attempts failed:
your first attempt:
WebElement button = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("button[@class='button' and @type = 'button' and @onclick = 'shippingMethod.save()']")).get(3); ...
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How can I test load for a chat app built on node.js and socket.io?
Artillery is a load-testing tool with native Socket.io support out of the box (and is written in Node.js too).
Why is native Socket.io support important? WebSocket is only one of the underlying ...
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How to check latency time in Jmeter?
You need to use the Tree listener and/or Table Listener in JMeter, Sampler result tab of Tree listener provided the value of both "Latency Time" and "Load Time"
(this image has been taken from google ...
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Does load testing affect local pc CPU usage and physical memory?
You are running the JMeter on your local machine. The load on your local machine comes from creating the requests to be sent to the server and handling the responses from the server.
You may want to ...
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Server has no effect in CPU graph , memory usage etc during load testing
For your issue about the CPU and Memory usage graph, I will recommend you to use the JMeter plugin and use the Perfmon Metrics Collector listener of this plugin in your scripts. Also, you will need to ...
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Load testing selenium scripts in visual studio
I would recommend looking into Visual Studio load test tool. You will need an Ultimate license. This tool will make it much easier to do all the things necessary to create a useful performance test ...
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How to determine 'reasonable' response times for performance testing?
Consider using A/B testing on your site to determine the impact of response time differences to your customers.
If done well, you will determine
If performance differences really matter
How much ...
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How to use multiple Jmeter instances on a single machine
I don't know why you need to run multiple instances of Jmeter from single machine. But Yes, you can run multiple instances of JMeter from single machine without any major issue, the only limitation ...
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Jmeter: Constant throughput Timer with Ultimate Thread Group
As far as I know, it doesn't matter which type of Thread group you are using with Constant Throughput timer, at the end of the test in the results, you will get your desired Throughput which you ...
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How can I do performance testing of Mobile Application?
Performance testing doesn't only mean many users hitting the same thing at the same time.
There are various aspects of performance testing which you can opt to do manually.
As you said you have to ...
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What is a cost-effective way to load test a web application using 1200 virtual users?
Have you considered Jmeter? it is completely free for the tool itself and can allow you to craft good solid scripts, I won't advise on what type of hardware you will need because I do not know what ...
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Strategies for load testing in a Live or Dev Ops environment?
A few suggestions:
If you can mock or fake the responses of the integrated apps, you could avoid the need to test live. It does require more work to set this up, but you then have a non-production ...
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How to enforce run Once Only Controller in Jmeter
Please use setupThread group to prepare the test environment say test data configuration or like wise that needs to be executed only once before the testing actually begins.
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