JMeter as testing tool for Spring app

[kantorn]

Hi

Are there anyone who have experience in testing a Spring-based webapp using JMeter?

I wonder how to test submitions to forms as Spring handles those things in a special way. It's very seldom you actually parse the request parameters on a submission, they are instead bound to the form data object.

Are there a better way of load testing a Spring app?

Interested in all kinds of experience.

[gmatthews]

We used jcrawler to do some quick and dirty load testing.

If people will be primarily viewing pages as opposed to filling out forms and clicking submit then jcrawler may give you useful information.

Our app probably gets 40 pages views to every 1 form completion so the fact that we weren't simulating filling in forms probably only makes a small difference.

The great thing about jcrawler is that you just give it a starting URL and away it goes.

[Ben Alex]

I recommend http://grinder.sourceforge.net/ version 3 for pure stress testing, and http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/ for functional testing (it wraps HttpUnit and makes it easier to deal with).

[Chris]

I have used jMeter to load test the jPetStore example application. Since in this case jMeter deals in HTTP requests (get or post), it is totally un-aware of what app server or framework is processing the requests. If you like I could email you the jMeter config file I used.

[hencre]

hi,

Im trying to load test my application with JMeter.
My application has: Spring framework with Acegi security & Tomcat v5.5
My aggregate report shows 100% errors.
I guess the problem is JMeter cannot understand Acegi encoding. I am using Acegi JDBC Authenticaton.
How do you load test Acegi applications with JMeter?

Thanks in advance,
Gaurav

[lacribeiro11]

Hi Chris,
I am Luis and I am trying to export some testcases from SpringSource and Maven to JMeter.
I would like to ask you if you could show me your config file please?
Thank you so very much
Email: lacribeiro11@gmail.com.

Luis

[Rod Johnson]

I wonder how to test submitions to forms as Spring handles those things in a special way. It's very seldom you actually parse the request parameters on a submission, they are instead bound to the form data object.

As Chris points out, nothing Spring does affects what load testing tools you can use.

And Spring's data binding approach is not unusual: other frameworks use the same concepts. It just saves you work, rather than changing anything publically exposed in your web app.

[kantorn]

I have used jMeter to load test the jPetStore example application. Since in this case jMeter deals in HTTP requests (get or post), it is totally un-aware of what app server or framework is processing the requests. If you like I could email you the jMeter config file I used.

I would be very grateful if you could do that.

[spring04]

Hi Chris,

Have you used jMeter with any other non-web application. Did you use the graphical interface provided by jMeter or the command-line interface? We would like this load test to run as part of our nightly build.

Thanks!

[Chris]

I have tested a simple Java class by extending the following jMeter framework class, this worked well. I did not however execute this from the command line.

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/api...lerClient.html

Instructions for execution of jMeter from an Ant task are here:

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Kantorn - the jMeter config file is 57kb, this seems a little large to paste in here. If you email me I will reply with the file.