Apache JMeter : Important Features and Capabilities

Due to the immense popularity of web-based applications, testing these applications have gained a lot of importance. Performance testing of applications, such as e-commerce, web services etc. is of paramount importance as multiple users access the service simultaneously.
- The Apache JMeter is an open source testing tool used to test the performance of the application when it is under heavy load.
- It puts heavy load on the server, tests the performance and analyzes the results when many users access the application simultaneously.
- Apache Jmeter is java application designed to load test the application.
- Jmeter is one of the Java tools which is used to load testing client/server applications.
- Jmeter is one of the Java tools which is used to load testing client/server applications.
- The important functionalities of Jmeter is that a heavy load on a server can be stimulated by using it, not on a server but also a heavy load on a network or object to test its strength under different load types.
- JMeter can be used as a unit test tool for JDBC database connection, FTP, LDAP, WebServices,J MS, HTTP and generic TCP connections.
- JMeter can also be configured as a monitor, although this is typically considered an ad-hoc solution in lieu of advanced monitoring solutions.