# Performance Testing GET request using Apache JMeter

How do we achieve scaling ? or how do we know we can scale . One of the answers before we throw our system to users is to simulate the environment. One of the most popular tools after AB ( Apache benchmarking ) is the Apace Jmeter. 

I will take you through the steps to performance testing of a web application .
1) Download apache Jmeter from  [https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi](Link) 

2) Unzip the file and inside the directory bin click on the Jmeter.bat
Let us create a simple get request 
1) Right click on the Test Plan and add a new thread group 
 
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2) Change the thread group name to a more meaningful 
3) Number of threads - Number of concurrent users to access the application 
4) Rampup period - time take to achieve this 

 
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5) Now let us configure the URL, request method for that we need to add a new sampler “HTTP Request”
 
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6) Configure the server name and path to be tested . Make sure to select the appropriate HTTP request ( GET,POST etc )
 for eg if you would like to test example.com/product  
server name - example.com
path - /product
 

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1608969032518/_uUXHxwSa.png)

7) Now add the element to view the test results 
we can add summary report and result tree from the listener


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8) Click on the start test and view the results in the summary report

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