JMS Protocol Add-in for LoadRunner is now available

With the explosion of Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) applications and their SOA counterparts, QA professionals must face the challenge of creating real-world testing conditions for these complicated, multi-node, composite applications. From a testing perspective…How do you generate hundreds of unique messages every second? How do you simulate a transaction that consists of HTTP, SOAP, JMS and JDBC protocols? What is the maximum de-queue rate of the application’s Message-Driven Beans? How can you test all of the possible routes a message may take through the application without requiring the Java knowledge to hand-code an extensive test harness?

The JMS Protocol Add-in helps you tackle these problems head on. By extending the capabilities of HP LoadRunner, the JMS Protocol Add-in help stress and isolate problems in the messaging tier and ensure applications are deployed with confidence. Turn a new page on middleware performance testing In today’s multi-tier distributed applications, some of the most critical bottlenecks reside in connections to backend systems, such as a database, message queue or the mainframe. In the past, the crucial task of isolating, testing and tuning messaging operations required creation of complex scripts that rely on in-depth Java and application knowledge. This adds a
tremendous burden to the already full plates faced by many quality assurance teams.
The JMS Protocol Add-in from J9 Technologies helps you stress the messaging middleware
layer and identify bottlenecks before deploying in production. Based on years of testing and diagnostics expertise in helping some of the world’s largest enterprises,
this solution automatically captures all JMS traffic going from a Java application to the backend message queues and plays them back to directly exercise the messaging tier
for high concurrency testing.

The JMS Protocol Add-in for HP LoadRunner helps you:
• Verify messaging infrastructure
supports a high volume of messages
• Obtain an accurate picture of backend
system performance
• Isolate and eliminate performance
bottlenecks in the messaging tier

How it works
Leveraging HP LoadRunner and VuGen technology, the JMS Protocol Add-in records all JMS put and get operations and captures them in standardized scripts. These scripts can be used to simulate targeted loads in terms of concurrent users to almost any JMS provider. This easy-to-use solution helps QA teams scale up backend testing by applying very measurable and repeatable loads that expose any potential problems early in the development cycle. The JMS Protocol Add-in eliminates the dependency on the application tier for direct testing of the messaging tier. Autogenerated scripts represent real-world load, and can be easily parameterized to create accurate and realistic mix of users for stressing the messaging tier. Detailed measurements are captured and provided to the HP LoadRunner Analysis application for side-by-side metric comparisons between test runs.

Get more out of Hp LoadRunner
HP LoadRunner is the market leading performance validation solution embraced by 77% of all QA professionals. J9’s HP LoadRunner Protocol Add-ins are fully integrated into the full suite of HP LoadRunner solutions. The JMS Protocol Add-in can be used alongside all other HP LoadRunner protocols to create a more realistic and comprehensive load test. With the simplicity of the solution, any skilled HP LoadRunner user can start using JMS Protocol Add-in with no additional training, and be productive immediately. With the JMS Protocol Add-in, recording of all JMS put and get operations happen exactly as they occur in sequence, and entirely on the server side. This unique feature is very beneficial in situations where client side recording is not feasible, and allows for server-side only testing that does not require installing VuGen on the backend systems.