using apache jmeter to perform load testing agains
DESCRIPTION
Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functionalbehavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications buthas since expanded to other test functions.Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files,Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can beused to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyzeoverall performance under different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis ofperformance or to test your server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.This tutorial will only demonstrate a simple SQL load testing example against Oracle via JDBC.TRANSCRIPT
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Using Apache JMeter to perform load testing against database
Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functionalbehavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications buthas since expanded to other test functions.
Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files,Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can beused to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyzeoverall performance under different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis ofperformance or to test your server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.
This tutorial will only demonstrate a simple SQL load testing example against Oracle via JDBC.
Step 1: Download Apache JMeter
The Apache JMeter is downloadable athttp://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi . We chose the binary version on2.3.2 for our windows xp workstation.
Step 2: Installation
The installation could be done by extracting the downloaded zip. That’s it.
Step 3: JDBC access to oracle database
To conduct the load testing against oracle database, setting up JDBC connection is required. It’salso easy to do that: copying ojdbc14.jar at $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib to folder lib underApache JMeter installation destination.
Step 4: Start Apache JMeter
Launching batch file jmeter.bat in folder bin will start Apache JMeter as following.
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Step 5: Adding new “Thread Group”
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For my testing example, I had the following configuration about “Thread Group”
Number of Threads(users): 10 Ramp-Up Period (in seconds): 1 Loop Count: 10
Step 6: Adding JDBC connection
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The JDBC setting for this example are:
Database URL: jdbc:oracle:thin:@your_db_server_IP:1521:jonathan JDBC Driver class: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver Username: scott Password: tiger
Step 7: Adding JDBC request
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In Query box, you can type any sql you want to test against oracle database.
Step 8: Adding aggregate report
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Step 9: Saving Test Plan
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Step 10: Run Testing
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In Summary
This is quite simple demo to show how to use Apache JMeter to do loading test against oracledatabase via JDBC. Apache JMeter offers a way to test SQL loading and performance. Byexamining above report, we have no idea to tell that throughput at 33.8/min is good or not. Thefeasible way to use Apache JMeter more effectively is to perform typical sql statement on idletime and peak time to get threshold about performance. And, those threshold will be the criteriato evaluate further sql loading test and performance.