Apache JMeter Pros and Cons

The load testing functionalities of apache jmeter are a very powerful tool on the analysis of our products performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main GUI, which os mainly used for prototyping and doing quick tests is quite outdated and could be more user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of creating Test plan with the help of Blaze meter Browser plugin

Ability to control parameters like number of processing threads and Delay between calls etc

Ability to use CSV files to store and utilize User Credentials during tests

Intuitive Error/processing Logs, very descriptive documentation

Easily create HTTP calls similar to production.

Useful Elements like Regex Extractor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Inability to fire HTTP requests from different Geographic locations(like Blaze meter)

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Is a very powerful tool that helps you to test software in a very exhaustive way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Is now easy to use, configuration and use ind general is not very intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy installation: It can be installed on any desktop with Windows, Mac or Linux

open source tool

Caching and offline analysis

it is a very user friendly tool

can be learned very easily

reports generation is very specific and user friendly UI

our organization is using it from long time and since it is open source, it helps us in cost cutting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some time jmeter hangs and it takes time to open.

if user load is more, it crashes also.

they are not upgrading new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good app! I thanks that everyone can try and use it. easy to use.

Our company use it everyday.

Very useful. I just can reccomend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

None. All is ok. Maybe it should be a little bit cheaper.

But if you use it for a long time the price will be not really important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Could quickly generate load test scenarios and the flexibility to work for multiple products such as websites and web service APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing that we've disliked with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User interface is not complex. Easy to understand and work flow is very simple.

Comes with many useful testing features.

Using Jmeter we can record and run our script with simple steps. And it comes with various listeners types,

When executing my test script, my workstation works as set of different devices. It's amazing right ?

So i don't need multiple devices to test my application. I can deploy my executions by using a single machine.

status report types and assertion types which are very useful when creating test scripts.

Also reporing and graph features are very accurate in Jmeter.

Thread counts and user counts are highly customizable.

In addition, I can simply import existing projects (Jmeter project files) into blazemeter for further testings.

Conclusion : Jmeter saved our money and valuable time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very difficult to find any cons about this powerful tool. Actually it works perfectly for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellent software for testing and developing independently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More features and better support for better management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple. Highly portable. Supports development of tests scripts in multiple programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not user friendly UI. No integration with any IDE. Difficult version management of projects. Very poor community support to resolve issues. Alot of bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple tool. Easy to set up. Lots of features. Easily scalable . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Poor User interface. No support on major ide.

No support online. Consumes huge and poor management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.