Changing the landscape of Load Testing with Open Source Projects of JMeter and JMeter Plugins

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Changing the Landscape of
Load Testing with Open Source
Andrey Pokhilko - Chief Scientist, BlazeMeter - CA Technologies
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Abstract
With customer experience being at the fore front of most organizations’ priorities, load testing
of their critical customer facing applications has become key to their businesses. The
technologies used for load and performance testing has evolved over the years. More and more
organizations are using Open Source alternatives like JMeter. In this session, Andrey will review
how certain features of JMeter projects, along with multitude of independent contributions to
JMeter and specific extensions of JMeter plugins has enabled more and more enterprises to
migrate from legacy load testing solutions like Load Runner to Open Source and SaaS based
alternatives. Andrey will also share his view on how Open Source load test tools have disrupted
the load testing landscape and helped the industry to perceive Open Source solutions more
positively. As a result, more and more corporations are embracing the usage of Open Source
load testing tools to improve the agility and cost efficiency of their load testing needs.
Andrey
Pokhilko
CA Technologies
Chief Scientist,
BlazeMeter

Agenda
UNDERSTANDING OPEN SOURCE
WHY PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE TO GO WITH OSS
MECHANICS OF FIELD CHANGE BY OSS
SPECIFIC CASE OF LT TOOLS AND OSS
IF WE HAVE TIME...
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Understanding Open Source

What is Open Source
§ Culture of not closing the source code
§ => IP is exposed
§ Freedom to use, copy, distribute, improve and derive
§ Affects every field, including hardware and even art
§ DevOps is a lot based on OSS

Once a man has tasted freedom
he will never be content to be a slave.
-- Walt Disney

Features that OSS brings
§ Promises cost-efficiency and no vendor lock-in
§ Products evolve faster -- more brains works on it, in parallel
§ Products evolve better -- different angles by open community
§ Products integrate with each other -- new opportunities
§ Enables shift left -- earlier involvement of developers into
activities

Why Individuals Choose to Use OSS
§ It’s free
§ It has free support of community
§ It’s easy to extend
§ It solves modern problems
§ It integrates with other OSS

Why Organizations Choose to Use OSS
§ Cost-efficiency -- it’s simply cheaper
§ Be more independent from vendors
§ Get the control back
§ Solves modern problems
§ Hiring is easier

Why Vendors Choose OSS
§ It creates new markets, free from competition
§ Enables fast time to market
§ Market awareness easier to achieve
§ Easy to hire relevant specialists

Uncomfortable Truth
§ It has indirect costs
§ People tend to forget/ignore that fact
§ There also other problems of OSS in practice (quality, support
=> opportunities)
§ “Abandonware”

Who Choose Technologies in Your Company Today?
Developers!

Mechanics of Changing
Landscape by OSS

First Wave: OSS Disrupts Existing Field
§ New products and tools for known problems
§ Copying features from proprietary solutions
§ Implementing new cutting-edge protocol support - clients,
servers
§ Creating whole new product kind (Taurus)
§ LT landscape changes same way other areas change

Secondary Wave that Comes After OSS
§ Audience expands due to open knowledge and free usage
§ Cost efficiency changes the game
§ Modularity and integrations enables new products to appear
§ Shift-left happens for more aspects of process
§ We observe replacement of proprietary LT solutions with OSS-
based

Third Wave: Reflection Back to OSS
§ Contributions happen from market players, even commercial
§ Commercial companies want to influence OSS projects
§ Companies start their own OSS projects to play active role

Questions?

Specific Case of Load Testing

How I became Jmeter Expert
§ Vendor for my company provides expensive service of LT
§ I’m an engineer
§ It’ so easy to take JMeter and start better LT on my own
§ It’s to easy to start extending JMeter to solve my needs

Example: Stepping Load Profile

Example: Servers Resource Monitoring

Example: DNS Cache Manager
§ Enables Akamai CDN compliance pass
§ Makes BlazeMeter be Akamai-certified -- larger customers
coming

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