How to measure the peak (maximum) number of parallel users supported by your web application? It seems to be a trivial task for JMeter, however it is not so simple. The main problem is that JMeter doesn't have a built-in feature to identify how Response Time changes with amount of parallel threads. But what if we need to measure this metric in scope of performance testing? There is a nice Response Times vs Threads plugin for JMeter. However this plugin works only with the version of JMeter starting from 2.4 and it is hard to integrate it with Continuous Integration servers. And what if we have the bunch of scripts already implemented for the older 2.3.4 version or just looking for alternative solution that is easier to integrate with our Continuous Integration server? Chronos plugin for Maven would be a good match. Integration of Maven and Chronos with JMeter had been already described in this post This what I suggest to change in your JMeter script: In "Thread group&q
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