In my previous post, I looked at the importance of load testing. In this next post in this series on load testing, I will show you how to use JMeter to create a simple load test, take a look at the various JMeter’s components and some features you should familiarize yourself with to help make load testing easy.
- JMeter is a Java application as a pre-requisite you will need to install the latest 64bit JDK or JRE.
- Download the latest binaries and unzip to a directory, for example, c:\jmeter.
- To run navigate to the \bin directory and run Jmeter.bat or if you are on a mac jmeter.sh.
JMeter UI overview
The UI is divided into three main functional areas:
- Menu bar – provides access to a lot of the main functions and provides relevant information to current running tests.
- Left panel – contains a hierarchical tree view of one or more test plans and the various components contained in the plans.
- Right Panel – this is where you will spend most of your time configuring various components or viewing any associated output from components contained in plans.
Neil Killen 