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There are many ways to implement mobile version of your website but easiest and probably cleanest one is to use mobile subdomain.
Once you have your mobile website you want to implement an automated test suite to be able to regression test the functionality after every release. You also want the test suite to be easy to configure and run it against test environment. In perfect world you want the test suite to run as part of the continous integration setup. Jmeter allows for all of that and is free. As a huge fan of jmeter i recommend you download it and play around with it as soon as possible.
In this article I describe how to create a test suite for mobile website redirects, you can also download my jmeter test plan and customise it to test your own websites.
This is just a very short and simple example of how to build a jmeter plugin. Jmeter is awesome and allows you to extend it by adding all sorts of components. What i wanted to do was to have separate test plans and reuse the configuration variable sets. My use case is that i want to have set of global settings with ability to override some of them with additional config files.
Jakarta jmeter is an awesome tool. I deeply encourage to experiment with it. If you want to see more details on how it is implemented or write your extension it may be worth compiling it from sources on your machine.
Here is a quick guide how to setup a eclipse project and what to do to build jmeter from sources and run it locally.
Jmeter is a very useful tool for not only performance tests but also for automation of all sorts of web tests. Its not as powerful as selenium when it comes to ajax etc but it still allows to login, keep session and execute any sequence of http calls.
In addition to ab (apache benchmark) and curl it comes in handy when you want to stress test your applications to see the capacity and possible bottlenecks.
