Goranka Bjedov on Using open source tools for performance testing Source

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2title: 'Goranka Bjedov on Using open source tools for performance testing'
3date: '2008-01-12'
4published_at: '2008-01-12T11:00:00.000+11:00'
5tags: ['google maps', 'jmeter', 'performance testing', 'testing']
6author: 'Gavin Jackson'
7excerpt: 'In my last job I was lucky enough to see a presentation by Goranka Bjedov (who works for Google) on performance testing. I just stumbled across the same presentation, available for free on video.googl...'
8updated_at: '2008-01-12T11:17:18.058+11:00'
9legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2008/01/goranka-bjedov-on-using-open-source.html'
10---
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12In my last job I was lucky enough to see a presentation by Goranka Bjedov (who works for Google) on performance testing. I just stumbled across the same presentation, available for free on video.google.com.
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14It's a terrific overview of the wide variety of tests that constitute "performance testing". It also does a good job of explaining the architecture and methodology associated with the execution and reporting of stress and volume testing.
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16She gives a good plug to the Jakarta JMeter project ([http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/](http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/)), although I recall Google have written quite a few in-house extensions to this product to make it work for them.
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18Finally, I enjoyed some of her war stories and real-life examples of things that you can find while performance testing.
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---
title: 'Goranka Bjedov on Using open source tools for performance testing'
date: '2008-01-12'
published_at: '2008-01-12T11:00:00.000+11:00'
tags: ['google maps', 'jmeter', 'performance testing', 'testing']
author: 'Gavin Jackson'
excerpt: 'In my last job I was lucky enough to see a presentation by Goranka Bjedov (who works for Google) on performance testing. I just stumbled across the same presentation, available for free on video.googl...'
updated_at: '2008-01-12T11:17:18.058+11:00'
legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2008/01/goranka-bjedov-on-using-open-source.html'
---

In my last job I was lucky enough to see a presentation by Goranka Bjedov (who works for Google) on performance testing. I just stumbled across the same presentation, available for free on video.google.com.

It's a terrific overview of the wide variety of tests that constitute "performance testing". It also does a good job of explaining the architecture and methodology associated with the execution and reporting of stress and volume testing.

She gives a good plug to the Jakarta JMeter project ([http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/](http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/)), although I recall Google have written quite a few in-house extensions to this product to make it work for them.

Finally, I enjoyed some of her war stories and real-life examples of things that you can find while performance testing.