Pros and Cons of JMeter

Pros of JMeter

·         Very light weight tool and can be installed easily

·         As it is an open source tool you need not to be worried on license

·         There are multiple plugins that are available in the market and can be installed easily according to the requirement

·         Caching and offline analysis/replaying of test results

 Cons of JMeter

·         It can be used only on web applications

·         Consumption of memory is high in GUI Mode and performance testing like Load, Stress and Endurance with high user load are preferred to run in NON-GUI mode

·         Complex scenario cannot be done using JMeter thread group

·         Recording in this is complex, as we need to setup the proxy manually

·         It supports only Java coding for custom coding