Dan Tripp wrote:
Thanks a bunch for this response, Steve. It's far more helpful to get a meaningful, fleshed-out response than to get terse, sarcastic non-answers. I'm already struggling enough with trying to use JMeter... I don't need more grief because I don't intuitively understand quirks in poorly-documented software. :)
Isn't be lucky that you have JMeter good enough not to gripe about it?
I too have decided that with all of the choices that are in JMeter that is should be flexible enough to do some very meaningful load testing. However the flexibility is wrapped in a very fragile process. This isn't something you can blame on Java. I think that the attitude that I've seen here is what, you don't know the magic incantation to get this to work? You can't guess? Well instead of putting up with non-answers, I just downloaded the source, and when something doesn't work... I just dropped it into a debugger and.... However, there are somethings that the debugger will hide from you such as where to put 3rd party Jars. IMHO, that and a bunch of other configuration stuff is just plain broken in that it needs to be exactly.. exactly that way or it doesn't work. And dare to mention that maybe if it was done this way... it maybe less fragile....
As for consistency.. each module is consistent in it's inconsistency. But then after you troll around in the code for a while you get to see why. There is a ton of cruft in there. Top that off with the scripting support has just been hacked into JMeter so it barely works and then... Try running any reasonable piece of Rhino (JavaScript) and you'll find that you can't get things to load at all. JavaScript its self seems to load into different contexts which means things don't see each other that normally do. All of a sudden I have two versions of my JS stuff, one for production and one for test.. unacceptable.
Conclusion, JMeter is pretty good for simple HTTP/HTML load testing. Once you get beyond that all bets are off. Unfortunately there are very few web sites of value these days that use only straight HTTP/HTML.
Kind regards, Kirk Pepperdine --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
