How to Build Your Own Apache JMeter
Replace Apache JMeter with a custom build. Open source software designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance
Build Difficulty: 5/5
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Estimated Timeline
Based on 27 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.
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Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 27 features
Protocol Support(10 features)
Load test databases using JDBC connections
Test FTP protocol and functionality
Test web applications using HTTP and HTTPS protocols supporting Java, NodeJS, PHP, ASP.NET and more
Test Java objects directly
Test message-oriented middleware via JMS
+5 more in this category
Testing Tools(6 features)
Sampler for testing based on access logs
Command-line mode for load testing from any Java compatible OS including Linux, Windows, Mac OSX
Support for distributed testing across multiple machines
Complete IDE for building, recording and debugging test plans with fast test plan recording from browsers or native applications
Dedicated sampler for testing JUnit tests
+1 more in this category
Extensibility(4 features)
Data analysis and visualization plugins for extensibility and personalization
Highly extensible core with pluggable samplers allowing unlimited testing capabilities
Several load statistics may be chosen with pluggable timers
Scriptable samplers supporting JSR223-compatible languages like Groovy and BeanShell
Data Processing(2 features)
Easy correlation through ability to extract data from popular response formats including HTML, JSON, XML or any textual format
Functions that can be used to provide dynamic input to a test or provide data manipulation
Analysis(1 features)
Caching and offline analysis/replaying of test results
Architecture(1 features)
Complete portability and 100% Java purity across all platforms
Integration(1 features)
Easy continuous integration through 3rd party open source libraries for Maven, Gradle and Jenkins
Performance(1 features)
Full multi-threading framework allowing concurrent sampling by many threads and simultaneous sampling of different functions by separate thread groups
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