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How to take the bull by the horns
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Igor Kolosov
Senior Automation/Performance Engineer
• 8 years in Software Testing
• 4+ years in Performance Engineering/Testing
• Wide experience – from solo projects to team leadership
Who am I?
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Why JMeter is bad out of the box?
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• Poor readability
• Unobvious
• Real-time test analysis resource limitations
• Poor real-time test reports
• Complex configuration
• Complex CI/CD integration
• Unfriendly for classic automation approaches

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Real-life example
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Let’s try to find some solution…
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• Flood-IO Ruby DSL: https://github.com/flood-
io/ruby-jmeter
• Blazemeter Taurus: https://gettaurus.org

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What is better?
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• Flood-IO Ruby DSL: https://github.com/flood-
io/ruby-jmeter
• Blazemeter Taurus: https://gettaurus.org

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Setup is easy!
• For Windows OS family:
run auto-installer
• For Unix-based OS family:
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How it works?
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YAML example
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Let’s run it…
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It’s alive!
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Pros
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• Automation-friendly
• Human-readable tests
• Ability to use YAML as an additional config or
instead of JMX
• Rich light-weight real-time analysis
• Intuitive distributed mode
• Easy setup
• Simple CI/CD integration, hybrid flows
• Covers 95% of existing JMeter features

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Cons
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• Limited support options
• Some bugs
• Learning curve
• Still requires some JMeter scripting from time to
time

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Real-life example
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Questions