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JMeter Performance Testing

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#1. What is JMeter?

JMeter is a free tool made by Apache that helps you test how well your website, app, or API performs when lots of people use it at the same time. It acts like many users hitting your system all at once to see how it handles the pressure.

It’s great for testing:

  • Websites and web apps
  • REST and SOAP APIs
  • Databases

Other services like FTP, JMS, LDAP (though most people use it for web and API testing). JMeter runs on Java, so make sure you have Java installed — version 8 or higher (Java 17+ is even better). The latest version of JMeter is around 5.6.3.

#2. Apache JMeter Working

JMeter is a Java based application or tool that simulates a group of users and sends requests to a target server. And hence, return statistics which show the functionality and performance of the server.

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