Why JMeter is so effective to do both load and performance testing

In recent days, I have tried to explore other areas and found JMeter. It's a fantastic tool which comes in open source. It is a powerful Java open source load and performance testing tool. With it, you can carry out performance tests on the web application, databases, web services, and more.

Here are few pros and cons of JMeter: (Source)

1. No overhead, it is the key to successful stress and destruction testing.
2. Scalability, you can connect JMeter with multiple machines
3. Flexibility, you can use UI to create your test or code it from scratch
4. Has great server monitoring tools
5. Huge community behind it
6. Lots of plugins and extensions
7. It's FREE!
8. Better User Interface
9. Needs a little more documentation and references
10. Improve overall look to the modern like interface

For more info on performance tuning :
http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/jmeter_performance_tuning_tips/ 


References/Tutorials:

http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/index.html

http://www.jguru.com/article/server-side/load-testing-with-apache-jmeter.html

http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/15/jmeter.html

http://www.davegardner.me.uk/blog/2010/09/23/effective-load-testing-with-apache-jmeter/

http://lincolnloop.com/blog/2011/sep/21/load-testing-jmeter-part-1-getting-started/

https://www.urbaninsight.com/2011/07/18/simple-load-test-with-jmeter

http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/17950

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2008/10/performance_testing_with_jmete/

http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=java&seqNum=269

http://www.packtpub.com/article/functional-testing-with-jmeter

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/tag/jmeter/

http://www.jmeter.net/

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jmeter/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI6u5pclYIw

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-jmeter-restful/

http://blazemeter.com/blog

http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog

http://nico.vahlas.eu/2010/03/17/some-thoughts-on-with-jmeter-part-1/

http://nico.vahlas.eu/2010/03/30/some-thoughts-onapplications-with-jmeter-part-2/

http://planet.jboss.org/post/concurrent_high_throughput_performance_testing_with_jmeter

http://www.wilsonmar.com/perfrpt.htm

http://jmeter-plugins.org/

http://wiki.apache.org/jmeter/LogAnalysis

http://rubenlaguna.com/wp/better-jmeter-graphs/

http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/plotting-your-load-test-jmeter

http://www.datazoo.de/articles/158/performance-testing-analyzing-jmeter-results

http://loadosophia.org/

https://github.com/afranken/jmeter-analysis-maven-plugin

http://flood.io/

http://blazemeter.com/

http://redline13.com/

http://jmeter-plugins.org/

https://github.com/ATLANTBH/jmeter-components/

http://www.ubikloadpack.com/

http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-groovy-sampler/

https://github.com/smartrics/JMeterRestSampler

http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-rest-sampler/

https://github.com/jmibanez/jmeter-rmi-plugin

http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-oauth/

https://github.com/steeltomato/jmeter-amf

http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-amfsampler/

http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-amf-visualizer/

http://swirstatdsample.sourceforge.net/usage.html

http://code.google.com/p/oauth/

http://wiki.apache.org/jmeter/MysqlCollectorPlugin

http://jmeterdbcollect.sourceforge.net/

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-969

http://rubenlaguna.com/wp/enhanced-jdbc-sampler-for-apache-jmeter-22/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmstats/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/snmpjmeter/

http://code.google.com/p/snmppluginjmeter/

http://code.google.com/p/jmeter-ssh-sampler/

http://jmeter.lazerycode.com/

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Performance+Plugin

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/JMeter+Plugin

https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JMETAGG/Bamboo+JMeter+Aggregator+Plugin

http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/profile-loadgenerator.html

https://github.com/automatictester/lightning

http://books.google.by/books/about/Apache_JMeter.html?id=nX8oKIEvUcYC

https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/apache-jmeter

http://books.google.by/books?id=fpWmv3wPT64C

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/performance-testing-jmeter-29

https://books.google.by/books?id=6ditCAAAQBAJ

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/performance-testing-jmeter-second-edition

https://books.google.by/books?id=gJUeBQAAQBAJ

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/jmeter-cookbook

http://samples.leanpub.com/maitriser-jmeter-du-test-de-charge-a-devops-sample.pdf

https://leanpub.com/maitriser-jmeter-du-test-de-charge-a-devops

http://www.delicious.com/veslefrik/jmeter

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jmeter/jmeter_tutorial.pdf

http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/index.html

http://www.roseindia.net/jmeter/

http://jmetertutorials.blogspot.in/

http://www.jmeter.net/

Botton-Line: It's good tool for an advanced level of performance testing which comes 

in open source (with plugins)