Extending JMeter to Allow for Web Structure Mining

Abstract

[eng] This paper describes a JMeter extension created to allow for web structure mining process. This type of mining process is very important, for example, in the field of web performance engineering and web development validations. The extension allows users to define the HTML tags that wrap the content units and it creates a graph model to represent the content units of all the web pages and the relationships among them (aggregations). The usability of the extension has been validated in a real scenario.