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What is distributed testing? - Apache JMeter Tutorial
From the course: Advanced JMeter
What is distributed testing?
- So far, I have a test script that will send a certain amount of virtual users to a website and bring back the performance details. I can then use this information to see how that site or application behaves under that amount of load. The amount of virtual users I can generate on a single system is limited, however. As is the efficiency of doing so. If I were to send 10 users to perform my test, that might come back fine. As would 20 or 50, but eventually I would start to see errors in the test that would not be down to either my test script or the system underload. There would be down to environmental variables in between both of these. It's my job as a performance tester to understand certain networking protocols and how internet traffic works in order to rule out these false negatives in my testing. For example, how powerful is the system that I'm using to generate this load? Is 50 users my limit, or is it 100?…
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