Running HTTP/REST Integration Tests efficiently in Eclipse

On September 10, 2012, Posted by , In Eclipse,JUnit, By ,,,,, , With 8 Comments

Lately I had a chance to use the OSGi-JAX-RS-Connector library written by my dear fellow Holger Staudacher. The connector enables you to publish resources easily by registering @Path annotated types as OSGi services – which actually works quite nicely. While it is natural for me to write the service classes…

Performance Analysis of REST/HTTP Services with JMeter and Yourkit

On February 10, 2012, Posted by , In Common, By ,,,,,, , With 11 Comments

My last post described how to accomplish stress- or load-testing of asynchronous REST/HTTP services with JMeter. However, running such tests often reveals that the system under test does not deal well with increasing load. The question is now how to find the bottleneck? Having an in-depth look at the code…

Stress/Load-Testing of Asynchronous HTTP/REST Services with JMeter

On November 28, 2011, Posted by , In Common, By ,,,,, , With 31 Comments

Although I have been using JMeter for stress- and load-testing of web applications a good few times it took us a while to figure out how to test asynchronous HTTP/REST based services with the tool. With us I mean a fellow programmer – Holger Staudacher, I have the honor to…