good old friend JMeter

JMeter is one of those primitive animals that never goes extinct.

Decent presentation:




Excellent comparison with SoapUI
https://octoperf.com/blog/2018/06/05/jmeter-vs-soapui/

JMeter is good for a VERY quick and dirty PERFORMANCE test of a service.


Incorporating JMeter Performance tests in Maven builds: https://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/shift-left-performance-tests-jmeter-maven/ and this is the plugin https://github.com/jmeter-maven-plugin/jmeter-maven-plugin/wiki





Some books on the topic:




Sai Matam, Jagdeep Jain - Pro Apache JMeter_ Web Application Performance Testing Apress (2017)

Bayo Erinle - JMeter Cookbook Packt Publishing (2014)

Bayo Erinle - Performance Testing with JMeter 3 Enhance the performance of your web application Packt Publishing (2017)

JMeter and testing Web Services

I add a Sampler "WebService(SOAP) Request", enter a perfectly working WSDL url (tested also in the browser)... click on "Load WSDL"... nothing happens, the Web Methods drop down doesn't get populated and nothing is logged on the JMeter console.

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/build-ws-test-plan.html

If the WSDL file was loaded correctly, the "Web Methods" drop down should be populated. If the drop down remains blank, it means there was a problem getting the WSDL. 

Pardon me for being so old fashioned, but in the old days programmers used to LOG what the problem was... I look also in the jmeter.log file in the bin directory (a log file in the bin directory????) and nothing...

JMeter would be a great tool if only it had been better coded....

So I am using SOAPUI (great great tool):
http://soapui.com/Functional-Testing/structuring-and-running-tests.html

an forget JMeter, its UI anyway is pretty bad, they need someone who knows how to do Swing.