Monthly Archives: April 2009

web applications stress testing with JMeter (part 1)

By etagwerker | Published: April 27, 2009
Before starting to stress test my application, I had to determine which was the best option: SLAMD (http://www.slamd.com) or JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter). Even though I had experience with SLAMD, I knew that it was more complicated to install SLAMD than JMeter. JMeter is a ’simple’ client that stresses different types of servers with no need to install [...]
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developer testing vs. tester testing

By etagwerker | Published: April 14, 2009
A developer testing will never be as good as a tester testing. I know that developers can be great testers. And maybe testers can be great developers too. But developers testing the same features they develop will never be as thorough as a tester testing features he knows nothing about. A tester knows how to [...]
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