SugarCRM is the world’s largest open source CRM (customer relationship management) software. These custom business applications can be used in a multitude of ways, such as to power sales teams, run customer support organizations, and manage customer information databases. With the passage of time, the data in SugarCRM increases significantly and load on hosting server start increasing resulting into decreased performance making SugarCRM Load Testing a must to do task.
Why we Use Jmeter for SugarCRM Load Testing?
Performance Testing is crucial to determine that the web application under test will satisfy high load requirements. It can be used to analyze overall server performance under heavy load.Jmeter is the best tool to complete sugarcrm load testing.
JMeter offers the following benefit in Performance testing:
• JMeter can be used to test the performance of both static resources such as JavaScript and HTML, as well as dynamic resources, such as JSP, Servlets, and AJAX.
• JMeter can discover maximum number of concurrent users that your website can handle
• JMeter provides a variety of graphical analyses of performance reports.
• JMeter Performance Testing includes:
• Load Testing: Modeling the expected usage by simulating multiple user access the Web services concurrently.
• Stress Testing: Every web server has a maximum load capacity. When the load goes beyond the limit, the web server start responding slowly and produce errors. The purpose of the stress testing is to find the maximum load the web server can handle.
How to do Load Testing Of SugarCRM ?
By using the Recording Controller we can easily record the Test script and use it for the load testing.
Step 1: Need below software
Apache JMeter – Download and run the .bat/.sh file from the bin folder. (.bat for window & .sh for Linux)
Java – Download and proper installation of Java.
Mozilla Firefox – Download and proper installation of Mozilla.
Step 2: Run the .bat file from the bin folder.
Step 3: Build a test plan
• Add the Thread Group to Test Plan
– Right-click on Test Plan > Add > Threads (Users)> Add > Thread Group
• You can also rename your Test Plan , Thread users and Thread Group
• In Thread Group Fields: