I created https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57222 for the
similarities between Aggregate Report and Summary Report
Regards
Philippe M.
@philmdot
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Philippe Mouawad <
philippe.mouawad@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to start a discussion about the future of graphs and
> reporting in Apache JMeter.
>
> Todays state:
>
> - My feeling (I don't want to hurt anybody who worked on those
> listeners which are interesting and I am aware that what can be great at
> some time can become less few years after) is that today:
> - we have the following graphs
> - Aggregate Graph : currently affected by bug on
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57221 in Java
> 8
> - Response Time Graph : interesting but slow to generate and I
> get OOM when I try to reload an existing CSV in some configuration, I will
> report a bug
> - Distribution Graph (alpha) : Alpha is not encouraging for
> users, is Alpha really needed or is it stable
> - Graph Results : Does not look very nice compared with what you
> can get today
> - we have the following reports:
> - Aggregate Report : Interesting
> - Summary Report: Differs from Aggregate Report by having
> additional Avg Bytes and Std Dev but not Median nor 90%Line
>
> My opinion and analysis on the current state is the following:
>
> - We lack of clean reporting that would be generated automatically at
> end of load test, all the previous graphs need to be generated from GUI and
> makes you lose some time. Also as we discourage Load Testing from GUI we
> should propose a way to generate reporting from NON GUI Mode
> - Some graphs (Response Time Graph, Aggregate Graph) rely on JCharts
> which seems to be abandoned, last release is from 2004 and current bug
> 57221 may be related to a bug in the library ,by the way this is an
> additional argument to get rid of obsolete libraries in JMeter:
> - Avalon (Logging + DataSource)
> - Excalibur (logging + DataSource)
> - jCharts
> - Reports are not sufficient and partly redundant , for example it
> seems that in terms of information Aggregate report and Summary Report
> should be merged. I looked at their code they are really very similar , I
> think one should be removed and the infos in both merged
>
>
> I must reckon that today my colleagues and I for example , we all use
> JMeter-Plugins graphs combined with GraphGeneratorListener, and we are very
> happy with what we get:
>
> -
> http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/automatically-generating-nice-graphs-at-end-of-your-load-test-with-apache-jmeter-and-jmeter-plugins/
>
> I would be interested to know how users generate their reports and graphs
> currently.
>
>
> But some may object that JMeter-Plugins is not JMeter and conclude that
> JMeter lacks of an essential feature.
>
> So I have 2 propositions to improve JMeter in this field:
>
> - 1/ Create a Brand new Report Generator Listener that would at end of
> load test generate a report in HTML or PDF containing:
> - Merge of informations contained in current reports
> - Generate graphs based on JS Libraries, I am impressed by the
> number of libraries that generate nice and sexy graphs:
> - http://www.chartjs.org/
> - https://github.com/keen/dashboards/tree/gh-pages/examples
> - Having them in HTML would allow some dynamice behaviour but the
> ideal result would be to be able to export graphs also as images
> - 2/ I don't know if it is possible but what about merging
> JMeter-Plugins graphing suite + GraphGeneratorListener in JMeter core if no
> library is in conflict in terms of licensing, of course it would required
> their agreement :-)
>
>
> I think today any Load Testing tool comes with reporting feature wether
> Commercial and Open Source and JMeter as such should improve in this field
> to stay one of the leaders in Load Testing field.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> --
> Regards
> Philippe M.
> @philmdot
>
>
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Cordialement.
Philippe Mouawad.
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