Extremely light weight.
Very easy to download and setup the entire infrastructure (Controller +LGs)
Ease of scripting
Host of plugins which further boost its effectiveness
Availability Non-GUI mode which consumes even lesser resources than already lightweight GUI version.
Robust scripts which could handle build changes
Easy LG(Master & Slaves) configuration setup
Very lightweight and low usage of resources
GUI tends to freeze and shutdown under more load
Ctrl+z( Undo doesn't work) so gets very inconvenient at times
Cannot do a mass replace( Ctrl+H) on the GUI ( can do it if script is opened via notepad++)
Re-iteration problems during errors - Usually we have login in once only controller, Action in Loop controller and logout in once only controller. Now if an error comes when the user simply logouts due to some unhandled error then the script expects that your session would continue but if that error has made you logout then your next iterations won't go through and vice versa. Suppose you put everything in loop controller and error doesn't log you out then the script start to login when you are already logged in and tends to fail.
We've had no issues with deployment.
See above Room for Improvement.
We've had no issues with scalability.
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it_user4032 (CTO with 11-50 employees)Hello Kapil,
Thank you for your review.
Here are my comments on what you write:
- GUI tends to freeze and shutdown under more load => Load testing with GUI is a known ANTI-PATTERN. GUI is to create/record/correlate, NON GUI is for Load Testing. Since 3.1 a WARNING appears on startup.
- Ctrl+z( Undo doesn't work) so gets very inconvenient at times => True, we'll try to find a solution to this
- Cannot do a mass replace( Ctrl+H) on the GUI ( can do it if script is opened via notepad++) => With upcoming 3.2, you'll be happy to see this feature
- I don't understand the last item, so if you're willing to give more details maybe we can help on this, see http://jmeter.apache.org/issues.html
Thank you
Regards
Philippe M. from Apache JMeter Team
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