Flood IO is a cloud based load testing platform for JMeter and Gatling that lets you scale out your tests across the globe using our on demand or your own hosted AWS infrastructure. In this article we introduce you to JMeter and how to run your first Flood test.
In this article, I’d like to use JMeter as testing scripts
Getting JMeter
JMeter can be downloaded here and typically you can start JMeter using the jmeter.cmd or jmeter.sh scripts located in the downloaded archive bin directory.
Creating a Test Plan
Once you have created a basic test plan and saved it locally as a .jmx file, you can upload this to Flood IO to create your first Flood test.
Creating a Flood Test
After you login to Flood IO you can click the “+” icon or from your Floods dashboard you can click the “Create Flood” button to create a new Flood.
In the new Flood form, add the .jmx test plan you created using JMeter to the Files input and select a Grid to run your Flood test on. You can optionally set the “Name” or “Tags” to help identify the test in your dashboard.
Start your Flood Test
Read about more [advanced settings] or simply click the “Start Flood” button to launch your test.
You will be redirected to a Flood report which will show you results in real time from the test you just executed on the chosen Grid.
The results in real time
- Summary about AVG Response Time, Concurence Users and Transaction Rate
- Summary report by chart
- Detail transaction
- You can trace your http connection
