Apache JMeter Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

it_user145347

Technical Leader with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 13, 2016

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Reporting feature can be improved but allows us to simulate a load of concurrent users on our application

What is most valuable?

Almost all features provided by JMeter are helpful.

How has it helped my organization?

We have a solution called Service Quality Manager portal and is a web based solution to do service management. We do performance testing of this solution using JMeter. It allows us to simulate a load of concurrent users on our application and find out performance bottlenecks in the application.

What needs improvement?

Reporting feature can be improved to provide better test results.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using JMeter for 5 years.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

I did not encounter any issue while deploying JMeter.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I did not encounter any issue with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Yes, While running with a large number of simulated users, sometimes we got thread exceptions and we restarted our testing simulation.

How are customer service and support?

As such there is no customer service provided by Apache for JMeter. This software is free to use under Apache licensing system.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We tried BadBoy but it lacked features.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup of JMeter is simple. A user can go ahead and start using it just by following it's documentation.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented JMeter using our own in-house team.

What was our ROI?

I am not sure yet.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

As it is java based software an can run on any platform supporting JVM.

What other advice do I have?

I would suggest to verify one's own business need and evaluate certain parameters first like Feasibility and Reliability of Automation, Ease in maintenance of automated test cases, Time saving in Manual or Automated Testing.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user326337Customer Success Manager at PeerSpot

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Oct 10, 2016

How would you suggest improving the reporting features?

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it_user5646

QA Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Apr 3, 2013

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User friendly Java tool, but doesn't support SSL recording or non-web apps

Valuable Features:

1. GUI is very user friendly 2. It's a pure Java tool, which enables me to run it on any platform (i.e. platform independent) 3. Free tool & easy to get.

Room for Improvement:

1. It does not support recording SSL 2. Supports only web based applications 3. Cannot change the recorded scripts

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it_user77718QA Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees

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Jan 5, 2014

JMeter DOES support SSL
JMeter DOES support LDAP, Database, Mail, FTP, etc. and can be easily extended with any protocol as plugin or as built-in extension like Beanshell - blazemeter.com
JMeter scripts can be correlated with pre and post processors, variables, properties.

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it_user1428

Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Aug 8, 2012

Powerful open source with wide community support. Needs experience to match commercial alternatives.

Pros:
Open source, powerful, wide community of support - it works.

Cons:
Experience needed to build custom tools around Jmeter in order to match capabilities of most commercial alternatives.

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it_user403875

Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 27, 2016

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It's very easy to download and setup the entire infrastructure.

Valuable Features:

Extremely light weight.

Very easy to download and setup the entire infrastructure (Controller +LGs)

Ease of scripting

Host of plugins which further boost its effectiveness

Availability Non-GUI mode which consumes even lesser resources than already lightweight GUI version.

Improvements to My Organization:

Robust scripts which could handle build changes

Easy LG(Master & Slaves) configuration setup

Very lightweight and low usage of resources

Room for Improvement:

GUI tends to freeze and shutdown under more load

Ctrl+z( Undo doesn't work) so gets very inconvenient at times

Cannot do a mass replace( Ctrl+H) on the GUI ( can do it if script is opened via notepad++)

Re-iteration problems during errors - Usually we have login in once only controller, Action in Loop controller and logout in once only controller. Now if an error comes when the user simply logouts due to some unhandled error then the script expects that your session would continue but if that error has made you logout then your next iterations won't go through and vice versa. Suppose you put everything in loop controller and error doesn't log you out then the script start to login when you are already logged in and tends to fail.

Deployment Issues:

We've had no issues with deployment.

Stability Issues:

See above Room for Improvement.

Scalability Issues:

We've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user4032CTO with 11-50 employees

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Feb 2, 2017

Hello Kapil,
Thank you for your review.

Here are my comments on what you write:
- GUI tends to freeze and shutdown under more load => Load testing with GUI is a known ANTI-PATTERN. GUI is to create/record/correlate, NON GUI is for Load Testing. Since 3.1 a WARNING appears on startup.

- Ctrl+z( Undo doesn't work) so gets very inconvenient at times => True, we'll try to find a solution to this

- Cannot do a mass replace( Ctrl+H) on the GUI ( can do it if script is opened via notepad++) => With upcoming 3.2, you'll be happy to see this feature

- I don't understand the last item, so if you're willing to give more details maybe we can help on this, see jmeter.apache.org

Thank you
Regards
Philippe M. from Apache JMeter Team

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