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JMeter Cookbook

By : Bayo Erinle
Book Image

JMeter Cookbook

By: Bayo Erinle

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
JMeter Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Testing external facing applications using JMeter, Vagrant, and AWS


Once the target test load of an application reaches a certain point (it varies from application to application), you can no longer accurately perform tests on it from a single box. The main reason for this is resource limitation. Each machine, no matter how powerful it is, is limited by RAM, processor speed, and so on. A clever workaround to resource limitation is divide-and-conquer. With this technique, the test load can be distributed to several low- or middle-end machines, thus achieving the target test goal without sacrificing test accuracy.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services that help them move faster and scale applications with lower IT costs. With its services, we can create several virtual machines needed for our distributed load test without having to worry about all the low-level infrastructure details. More information...