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A Beginner's Guide to Application Load Testing
The document discusses load testing using JMeter, highlighting the author's background in ColdFusion development and their experience in managing a high-volume business news site. It details the challenges faced during a major redesign and the importance of analyzing user behavior to identify bottlenecks. The author emphasizes the need for effective testing tools and shares insights on setting up JMeter for creating traffic tests and monitoring server performance.
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- 1. Load Testing w/JMeter Birgit Pauli-Haack Pauli Systems on Twitter @bph
- 2. Enough about me.Coldfusion programming as volunteer for Naples Free-Net since 1999
- 3. Project Manager HUD-HMISCollier County 2004 - 2007 Pauli Systems was founded in 2002 Mostly CF development, CMS, LMS, Online Publishing, Server Admin services,Migration & Integration APIs,Open-source implementation, Mobile Web / Augmented Reality, WordPress. Naples, Florida since 1998 Before Munich,Germany
- 4. Over the next40 min A Story
- 5. What exactly dowe need to test?
- 6. How to createtraffic - JMeter
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- 11. The Story ofa GoLive Redesign of a relative high volume Business News site. Upgrade CF 7.01 to CF 9.01
- 12. Upgrade from Windows2003 to Windows 2008
- 13. Migrate front endcode base 2003 to 2011
- 14. Integrate stand alonecode 2005 & 2007
- 15. All into oneFramework: Fusebox 5.5
- 16. First attempt ofGoLive May 7 8:45am Rollback to old server May 7 noon.
- 17. What Happened? Whatcould have been the cause? Database server?
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- 25. What do Imean when I talk about load testing? Create Site traffic on your site, and analyze behavior to find Bottle necks
- 26. So how areyour users using site?
- 27. 1) Many pagerequests at the same time
- 28. 2) Which Pagesare hit the most?
- 29. What is anormal amount of requests per second? Google analytics: Page Requests per hour Peak: 51,856 per hour = 14 request/second
- 30. Which pages? Thisis a news site. - Homepage - Article pages - Media pages - Archives What is the ratio? Example: Variations of Homepage: 42 %
- 31. Using JMeter Afterinstallation
- 32. Create a TestPlan
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- 36. Using JMeter SummaryReport Throughput: 47.5 Request per second Per hour: 171,000
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- 38. Original Question Howmany users can we serve before we need more power and muscle on our server environment? Good question!
- 39. Tool: FusionReactor Thereare other tools: Seefusion
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- 43. CPU Usage 80requests per second trigger 80 to 100% CPU usage ~ Max load ~ 3,456,000 Pages per 10 hrs Period
- 44. How many visitors?- For this particular site - for this particular JMeter Test Plan - 80 requests per second - 80 to 100% CPU usage - approx: 3,456,000 Pages per 12 hrs Period Average of 2.7 page view per visitor Serve up to 1,280 Mio Vistors per day. (12 hrs Period)
- 45. DemoJmeter Set-up JMeterAdd a plan Add a thingy Add a report Add a graph Simple. More complex: user/name password Record sessions. Through Firefox. Increase traffic.
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- 54. Resources: How-Tos YouTube: Website Stress Testing using JMeter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLeq-QxkSw
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- 57. Search for LoadTesting with JMeter
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- 62. Improve the qualityof your JMeter scripts
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