Performance testing analysis on web application: Study case student admission web system

Websites usage for universities selection entrance (admission) are most visited websites in daily activity, thus its performance is critical. The ability of web applications either to control or to process users' requests determines its reliability. Furthermore, those websites which process students admission in Universitas Brawijaya and Politeknik Negeri Malang certainly engage massive volume of data and information that requires the highest level of reliability. Therefore, there is absolutely needed appropriate testing performances to measure the level of a certain application based on reliability rate. This measurement is used to determine responses, throughput, capability, and system scalability upon workload given. This research has a contribution to present testing performance concepts, goals, targets, types, and tools of Apache JMeter which is engaged for web assessment including detects mistake and error that relates to application performance and helps to improve the level of application performance as expected.