.NET Core Performance Testing using Apache JMeter — Part 4

Introduction

In previous posts on this topic, we learned how JMeter can help us in performance testing our applications. I am using .NET Core for the demos, but you can use APIs written in totally different languages as well.

In this post, we will learn various other JMeter components and configurations and will also see couple of demos. I believe that with all this information, you’ll have good level of information to start setting up performance tests for your APIs and you will be able to explore different JMeter options easily on your own.

JMeter Plugins

jemeter-plugins.org has a lot of plugins useful for various purposes. Those are typically JAR files and are copied to lib/ext folder. However there is a very handy plugin called Plugins Manger which you can install to easy manage all other plugins for you.

JMeter Items

We saw few items e.g. Test Plan, Thread Groups etc in earlier posts. There are many more items and/or configurations in JMeter which you can use as per your particular testing needs. I will describe few of those in this post, however we will not go into much details. You can find good example and description of those on the official website, if you want to explore more: