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Found this while browsing through the Makezine blog site.

JMeter -- Process Setup 02 -- Downloads and Installations

This is part two of the JMeter Process Setup.  Part one can be found here: http://dudewheysmehblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/jmeter-process-setup-01.html

The real heart of the Automated JMeter execution process is your Ant build.xml file.  This is so essential that the JMeter guys have already included the Ant ant-jmeter-1.0.9.jar file for us in the extras folder!  Ah, but I'm getting ahead of myself, let's start from scratch -- this will all be geared toward a setup on a Windows machine -- either a Windows Server or Windows XP/Vista/7.

Windows Explorer (Folder and Search Options) tips for Windows 7

If you are like me and need to have a lot of info within your visible spectrum, the default Windows Explorer settings for Windows 7 is definitely not enough.  The good news is that it can be set to your preferences, which should be taken advantage of because, well, hey, they're called "Personal Computers" for a reason.

Read on for some handy tips!

JMeter -- Process Setup 01 -- Introduction

If you're working with JMeter for performance testing and already have a process setup, you are one of the lucky ones.  Starting from scratch and getting all of the various parts to fit and work takes time -- too much time especially if you're also involved in functional testing as well.

Aside: If you've stumbled upon this post looking for JMeter advice or a tutorial, please see this JMeter-tips blog.  I'll start putting up that once I have anything "post-worthy."

Local Bugzilla & Testopia Installation and Configuration Part 1 of probably 5

So, I'm tired of receiving a ton of mails from Bugzilla, as I'm sure everyone is -- especially when I'm on a distribution list and receive a CC about something I just did (Argh!!!).  Also, I'm interested in more custom reports than Bugzilla allows for currently.  Lastly, I want to try out Testopia to see how well it can fit in our process.

While searching for fixes for the mail issue I found a couple interesting pages:
This one gave me the idea to tweak the Bugzilla install to send out only 1 mail to everyone instead of sending out multiple mails (one to each person).  This will allow the Exchange server to remove the duplicates, sending everyone only ONE mail, thus reducing the clutter.

I also saw this one, which allows you to Authenticate to Bugzilla using Active Directory.  I want to try this out also, to see what the benefits are.  This will come later.

So anyway, the first step was figuring out which AMP server to install -- I have used WAMP Server before and it was very simple to set up and use.  I decided to go with XAMPP though because of the inbuilt support for Perl.