I am literally new to Jmeter and have just started exploring the tool. I am developing tests to perform load and stress test on a website where the peak load is 10000 users an hour. The stats are something like:
Hour Index Users 0 2,728 1 1,656 2 1,123 3 1,058 4 1,174 5 1,710 6 3,524 7 5,808 8 7,505 9 8,432 10 9,113 11 9,577 12 9,814 13 9,674 14 10,028 15 9,781 16 8,445 17 8,156 18 6,193 19 6,175 20 5,922 21 5,641 22 4,694 23 3,068
I want to use the ramp up and ramp down feature along with Spike in load but unsure which thread group should i use? The Ultimate Thread group or the Stepping Thread group. Also unsure of how should i configure these thread groups. Any pointers would be greatly helpful.
Thanks in anticipation.