Best practices for performance benchmarking test

Question

I have a J2EE web-application running on Sun hardware with OpenSolaris/Glassfish stack. We're starting our performance bench-marking tests, to prepare for our scalability requirements later.

Any guidelines/best practices would be very useful..

Answer 1

If you are using JUnit? For simple Time Measurement in JUnit there is JUnitPerf which also supports LoadTests. JUnit 4 is not supported very well but it works for me. ContiPerf is an alternative which also supports annotations for easy configuration. I use this before using JMeter.