Hello, I'm new to JMeter. I was wondering if you could share some of your experiences with me.
I'm testing a web application, I want to know how scalable the app is and how well it performs. setup: The server & the jmeter-machine are seperate machines. I have set up a test, then I ramp up the number of threads. I started with 10 threads 50 requests and worked my way up to 100 threads 50 requests. ramp up period of 1 second for all test cases. Then I look at the result using the Aggregate Report and Graph Result listeners. During the ramp-up what I'm seeing is that the throughput increases to 17 requests per second and then tapers off. I'm guessing that this is a good measure of the scalability of the application. Is that correct? The other numbers that I find interesting are the median response time (+deviation) and the 90% line: These numbers increase as the number of threads increase. My understanding is that when I'm running the case 50 threads, 50 requests what's happening is that for most of the duration of the test the server is loaded with 50 requests. So the median response time of X seems to suggest, that when the server is loaded with 50 requests the average response time is X. Is this correct? The application that I'm testing needs to respond in less than 2 seconds when it is processing 50-100 requests. Am I on the right track with my test setup and am I understanding the results correctly? Thanks in advance.
