The rationale for this is:
- JMeter is a performance testing tool -- or at least that's its charter.
- Performance testing requires functional testing features: you need to see that function is not degraded under load.
-- Salut,
Jordi.
Michael R. Wolfe wrote:
I have a fairly broad question. We are using Jmeter for performance and stress testing and have been successful with it. Most of our Jmeter scripts are fairly hardcoded, although there are a few places we've driven test data from CSV files.
But I've been stymied when creating more complex scripts to do functional and regression testing. You can do some crude things using CSVFiles and loops (and the IF controller will be a big help), but in general making reusable, data-driven scripts is very cumbersome and involves lots of hacks. We are using Jmeter to test a web-driven application with reports, config interfaces, etc., and not a relatively static website.
So, my question is:
1 - Is there an equivalent tool to Jmeter to do functional testing
(other than HTTPUnit, which is too low-level)
2 - Do folks see Jmeter evolving in this direction? It would require
adding more controllers (the IF controller is a good start), reusable
subroutines, some variable operations, more options to read from CSV
files (and XML files!), and other gizmos that the commercial tools have.
A little would go a long way here, and I might start to add things on my
own, but I didn't know if anyone had an overall vision of Jmeter going
this direction.
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