Hello all,
Today it’s the turn of Jmeter and K6 ! As always, remember to check your other options and see what better fits for your project.
Jmeter is a great and powerful tool, but depending on what you really need (something more lighter) then Jmeter might become an over complex, slow, hard to maintain tool.
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In-built Protocols Support |
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Speed to write tests |
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Support of βTest as Codeβ |
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Ramp-up Flexibility |
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Test Results Analyzing |
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Resources Consumption |
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Easy to use with Version Control Systems |
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Number of Concurrent Users |
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Recording Functionality |
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Distributed Execution |
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Load Tests Monitoring |
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Jmeter is most used when:
- You need to perform a complex load including different protocols
- You can record scenarios
- Robust support and training ecosystem
- Require that a full scenario be written for every test
- If you need to simulate specific load with some custom ramp-up patterns
- If you just prefer UI desktop app for scripts creation, or you just do not know Javascript/YAML/JSON well enough
K6 solves some specific problems:
- CLI tool with developer-friendly APIs.
- You can use HAR files to generate record sessions
- Checks and Thresholds – for goal-oriented, automation-friendly load testing
- Open source, great support and documentation
- Lightweight uses Javascript
- Does not run in NodeJS and doesn’t run in a browser
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