Question

I am a newbie in web-development and am trying to use Jmeter for doing load testing on our site. I have some very basic and stupid doubts regarding Jmeter and how to analyze its results.

I want to analyze the following parameters of our site.

1. Response time under load – The average duration of a Web surfing Session.
2. Capacity – Total number of successful urls calls per second measured over all users.
3. Stability – The percentage of failed web surf sessions ,measured over all users.

I have checked all the listeners of Jmeter, they do not give all these graphs.
How do i get them?
Will i have to write scripts for them?
Are these parameters sufficient to describe at least the basic functionality of load testing?

Answer 1

Both 1 and 2 you can get from the JMeter Plugins project, the 3 – from jmeter’s default Summary Report:

1. Response Times Over Time
   http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-plugins/wiki/ResponseTimesOverTime
2. Response Codes per Second
   http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-plugins/wiki/ResponseCodesPerSecond
3. Summary Report, “Error %” column
   http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Summary_Report