If you are installing something with a dependency that needs a C++ redistributable, your best bet is to make sure your installer supplies that dependency. This is pretty simple to do as there are merge modules for the C++ redistributable (and they are likely to already be on your computer…) You will find the merge […]
WiX is great – but sometimes complex. Most of the complexity comes from needed to adjust things in many places to make a single thing work. For that reason, I feel the need to document the many steps required to do the following: Declare a property in the installer Allow the user to enter a […]
We have been re-using our JMeter integration tests as load tests, which has been a great way of discovering various slow-downs in our REST APIs (in particular, we found that a large backup process slowing down our network significantly at 1am each morning). If you are using JMeter in the same way, you may find […]
I wrote an article recently about the parameterized Controller plugin for JMeter. Today I’m going to present an even more flexible way to run different sets of data through the same test. The JMeter CSV Data Set Config node allows you to attach a set of data to a thread group or controller in order […]
There are lots of really useful JMeter Plugins out there but some of them are really, really useful and if you don’t know they exist you might think some things are too difficult or even impossible. Here are just a couple of scenarios you may find yourself in, which are included along with a bunch […]
JMeter is an awesome tool for writing load tests, but it isn’t obvious how you would break your tests into re-usable chunks. For example, if you are testing multiple scenarios that all require a login, it is a bit annoying to have a copy of the nodes required to log in and check the sign […]