Since I've been nominated to become a committer for JMeter, I thought it would be good if you guys got to know a bit more about the person you are voting for. So here's a bit of an introduction.
I'm just about 26 years old, and grew up in various locations around the U.S. After graduating from Utah State University in 1998 I moved to Rochester, Minnesota to work at IBM. (Usual disclaimers apply -- while IBM is allowing me to contribute to this project that doesn't imply endorsement by IBM, etc.) My job there has evolved somewhat over time, but its main focus has been on Java and WebSphere performance for iSeries servers.
Back in September I made a bit of a shift, and moved to Sweden for a year-long assignment. I'm still employed by IBM, but working on-site with a Swedish company called Intentia. Current plans are to return to the U.S. this coming September.
As a performance analyst I have used various load-generation tools (both third-party and internal tools) in our testing. But I'm always looking out for new tools and techniques which can help for various tests. I've evaluated JMeter a couple times in the past, but my recent need to perform load tests through a Java client made JMeter and its JavaSampler a perfect fit (well, after a bit of tweaking). I think it may come in handy for some other work in the future as well, so I'd like to help make some additional improvements.
I think I'm about done with my list of improvements for the JavaSampler, but here are some other areas that I'm hoping to work with in the next few months:
- Miscellaneous GUI improvements to fix minor annoyances
- Performance improvements so JMeter has less overhead
- Work on running without a GUI -- in particular, running the load from an iSeries system [maybe this already works fine -- I haven't tried yet] and doing semi-automated performance regression tests
- Some kind of integration with JMX MBeans, with the goal of being able to correlate JMeter test results with system metrics such as CPU utilization, application server statistics, etc. I don't (yet) know a lot about this, but it sounds like something interesting to learn. This is a long-term goal, and not something I will be working on in the very near future, but hopefully I'll be able to get started soon.
I think that's about it. You can get a bit more information about me and my experiences here in Sweden from my web page at http://xirr.com/~jeremy_a. And feel free to ask me any questions you might have. One final note: my email has been acting up quite a bit lately (Bigfoot getting listed by many ISPs as a spam-source and mail bouncing), so please bear with me if you have problems sending me mail. I'm working on finding a new email provider, so hopefully I'll have a new address soon.
Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xirr.com/~jeremy_a
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