It depends on the nature of the requests. If you need to mimic a "spike", i.e. need to simulate 50 users concurrently doing the same action, i.e. checking out an item, logging in, voting, etc. - you don't need any plugins, JMeter's Synchronizing Timer <http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Synchronizing_Timer> will be sufficient.
Parallel Controller comes into play where you need to implement some "egde" conditions, for example if after login your application dashboard is being loaded in several parallel threads originating i.e. via AJAX <https://www.w3schools.com/xml/ajax_intro.asp> requests. In this case you won't be able to easily simulate this type of load using JMeter built-in test elements, however with the Parallel Controller it is a matter of seconds. Check out How to Use the Parallel Controller in JMeter <https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/how-to-use-the-parallel-controller-in-jmeter> article for more details on Parallel Controller use cases. -- Sent from: http://www.jmeter-archive.org/JMeter-User-f512775.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@jmeter.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@jmeter.apache.org
