The New JSON/YAML Plugin: Using YAML in JMeter

#ICYDK: The JSON Plugin was deprecated in Apache JMeter™version 4, following the donation of the JSON Assertion component from jmeter-plugins.org to core JMeter. Now, I have updated this plugin to support new features and abilities. In this new version, the two plugin components, the JSON Path Extractor, and the JSON Path Assertion have a new input format — YAML. So, users can choose between JSON and YAML input formats when running JMeter load tests. This provides more options and flexibility for performance testers — everything that was done before in JSON can now also be done in YAML.

Let’s see how the JSON/YAML plugin works by generating a simple test plan. This test plan will take random values from two arrays (lists) in YAML and use them in a POST request as body parameters. The two arrays will be received from another request. https://goo.gl/S24GoC

Monitoring Your Competitors GitHub Orgs, Repos, and Employee Repos for Signals

GitHub is one of the most valuable social networking platforms for business, beginning to rival Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and others for a place to understand what is going on across leading business sectors. However, GitHub doesn’t have all the usual signals coming in text, images, and video format, making the social ecosystem something that often gets overlooked by business folks who don’t quite understand the open source landscape. This makes GitHub less noticeable than some of the more proven, lower hanging fruit that exists on other platforms.

Companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies of all shapes and sizes are using GitHub to manage the open source software they depend on and increasingly also managing content, data, APIs, and other critical infrastructure within the GitHub ecosystem. Since GitHub is free for public repositories, it is common for GitHub to provide us with a unique window into what is going on across some of the more public entities on the web today. https://goo.gl/tpgNNB