Pre-requisite: A course without page activities, a course with page activities but without forum activity/ies and a course with page activity/ies and forum activity/ies with discussions and replies. All of them with, at least, 1 enrolled user. Set your debugging level to developer Edit config.php and add a new line with $CFG->tool_generator_users_password = 'imatest'; Generate courses cd /to/your/moodle/dirroot && php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestsite.php --size="S" --fixeddataset Browse to admin/tool/generator/maketestplan.php Test 1 Select size XS Select the course without page activities Submit the form You SHOULD see an error message stating that there are no page activities Test 2 Select size XS Select the course with page activities but without forum activities Submit the form You SHOULD see an error message stating that there are no forum activities Test 3 Select size XS Select the course with page activities and with forum activity/ies Submit the form You SHOULD see a couple of links to download the test plan and the users file Test 4 Download jmeter binaries from https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi and store them in /opt/apache-jmeter-2.9 with fancy permissions cd /dir/inside/public/www git clone https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-performance-comparison.git moodle-performance-comparison cd moodle-performance-comparison Follow https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-performance-comparison/blob/master/README.md install instructions, filling the webserver_config.properties repository section with: a new site settings (dataroot, db data, wwwroot...) repository="git://git.moodle.org/integration.git" basecommit="d0b63cbde580750e116d2c4b2832eda4ae0db907" beforebranch="master" afterbranch="master" the services and the backup part according to your needs Follow usage instructions https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-performance-comparison/blob/master/README.md#web-and-jmeter-servers-in-the-same-computer-usually-a-development-computer-1 You don't really need to run restart_services.sh as this is not a serious performance comparison test Browse to http://path/to/moodle-performance-comparison Consider that this tool is not being tested here, it still has a few issues to solve You SHOULD see a web interface with a couple of drop down menus There SHOULD be a couple of options in each drop down Select a different option in each menu Press 'Load' You SHOULD see a few big percent numbers colored in red and green You SHOULD see the test plan steps in the left side, something like View course or Frontpage not logged You SHOULD see a few graphs Test 5 Comment the $CFG->tool_generator_users_password = 'imatest'; line in config.php Open a CLI and cd /to/your/moodle/dirroot php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestplan.php --size="S" --shortname="testcourse_12" You SHOULD see Error: You need to set $CFG->tool_generator_users_password in config.php to generate the test plan