Re: [JMeter][RFC] JMeter report generator based on JAMon

Hi Sebastian,

see my comments below

Cheers,

Siegfried Goeschl

On 25.07.11 16:11, sebb wrote:
> On 25 July 2011 14:14, Siegfried Goeschl<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> a few clarifications
>>
>> +) the JMeter report is consumed by a STAX parser so this is basically a
>> post-processor of the JTL file
> JMeter already contains code to analyse JT:L files - might be better
> to use that, as any changes to the format will be handled by JMeter.
>
since I don't know the JMeter code base where can I find the code to 
parser a JTL file?
>> +) the label and response time of the HTTP invocation is fed into JAMon
>> +) with a bit of manual code the underlying JAMon data model is written to a
>> HTML file
> So you are only using the JAMon data model, is that correct?
>
> JMeter also contains code to do summarising and various other
> statistical analyses for the GUI Listeners.

IMHO not good enough because I need the fulfill SLA's and require 
mapping response times into intervals as shown in the "Page Detail 
Table" section.

>> +) currently there is no way to customize the output
>>
>> I also played with CSV output but it is not significantly faster than XML in
>> my case but I will re-check.
> CSV output will be much smaller and is less expensive at run-time.
> It's also easier to parse - and again, JMeter has the code to parse the file.

Not sure about it but I think the XML output is the way to go because I 
dump request and response on errors ...

>> Cheers,
>>
>> Siegfried Goeschl
>>
>> On 25.07.11 14:25, sebb wrote:
>>> On 24 July 2011 15:19, Siegfried Goeschl<[email protected]>
>>>   wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using JMeter for some large-scale performance tests and had problems
>>>> with the current approach of using XSLT to generate the HTML report since
>>>> my
>>>> JTL files exceed two gigabytes. Therefore I implemented a new reporting
>>>> backend based on JAMon (see http://jamonapi.sourceforge.net/)
>>>>
>>>> Code : https://github.com/sgoeschl/jmeter-sla-report
>>>> Sample Report :
>>>> http://people.apache.org/~sgoeschl/download/jmeter/summary-report.html
>>>>
>>>> If this is of general interest I would like to contribute the code -
>>>> please
>>>> note that
>>>>
>>>> +) JAMon is under BSD licence
>>>> +) the latest JAMon libraries are currently not available at Maven
>>>> Central
>>>>
>>>> Feedback appreciated
>>> I'm a bit unclear on how JAMon is being used.
>>> It looks to me like JAMon is a monitoring system, rather than a
>>> reporting system, so how much of the JAMon code is really being used?
>>>
>>> Also, how easy is it to customise the output?
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> By the way, for long-running tests, it's a lot more efficient to use
>>> CSV output instead of XML.
>>> CSV does not support all the possible data types that XML does, but
>>> the additional fields in XML are not normally needed for reports.
>>>
>>>> Siegfried Goeschl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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