When high volumes of web transactions are simulated in short periods of time to ensure your site has the capacity and ability to perform well in order to exceed expectations, it's probably done in the traditional way.

Large companies usually choose a more traditional load testing which is internal testing meaning - tests are run from behind your company’s firewall.

המודל המסורתי לבדיקות עומסים כולל התקנת תוכנת בדיקות עומסים על מחשבים יעודיים ברשת הארגונית והרצת הבדיקות מתוך הארגון. מודל הבדיקות באמצעות "בדיקות ענן" מאפשר בדיקות עומסים ללא כל התקנה של תוכנות או של מחשבים בעוד התעבורה מגיעה ישירות מרשת האינטרנט (מהענן).

מאמר זה הינו הראשון מסדרת מאמרים המאפשרת בחינת המודל המוסרתי של בדיקות עומסים ע"י כלים כדוגמאת Loadrunner, Webload, JMeter מול המודל החדש הנגזר מטכנולוגיות כמו Cloud-Testing.

במאמר הראשון, נבחן את אבני הבניין הבסיסיות הנדרשות לביצוע בדיקות עומסים באופן יעיל ונכון בכל מודל שיבחר (מסורתי או מהענן).

In this article I would like to discuss the aspect of load-testing as part of Cloud-Testing and it's impact over traditional testing.

Testing and tuning your application can be an expensive, long and frustrating process. Testing cycles, tuning and regression testing can consume a lot of effort and resources. Performance testing is a crucial part of the software development lifecycle.

Ideally, performance testing should be done in an ongoing fashion just like functional testing. However, what usually happens is that performance testing is done in the last few weeks or days before a launch to production.

You cannot improve that you cannot measure -

You cannot improve that you cannot measure

Tip #8: How to save test results - There is a possibility to save JMeter test results to xml or csv file for further work (e.g. generating reports, importing to a database, etc.). It can be easy done by adding Simple Data Writer listener to a Thread Group and specifiing the filename. Of course you can specify the filename as JMeter variable or property.

http://twit88.com/blog/2007/09/14/use-jmeter-to-load-test-rmi-remote-method-invocation-server/

Apache JMeter is a great tool for load testing. However, recently I need to load test a RMI application, and I could not find a JMeter Sampler to test the RMI application.

http://allthingsqa.blogspot.com/2010/01/7-steps-to-performance-testing-b...

This post goes out to those that approached me recently with the question "I would like to learn performance testing. How do I get started?"

It's a step by step approach to getting started on performance testing.
A couple of points may cause deja-vu from previous posts, but repeating those was necessary evil towards creating this summary guide

http://zacster.blogspot.com/2008/03/quick-howto-to-setup-jmeter.html