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Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 [electronic resource].

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (148 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781782165859 (electronic bk.)
  • 1782165851 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9DDC classification:
  • 004.678
LOC classification:
  • TK5105.88813
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Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.packtpub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Performance Testing Fundamentals; The incident; The aftermath; Performance testing; Performance testing and tuning; Baselines; Load and stress testing; JMeter to the rescue; Up and running with JMeter; Installation; Installing Java JDK; Setting JAVA_HOME; Running JMeter; Tracking errors during test execution; Configuring JMeter; Summary; Chapter 2: Recording Your First Test; Configuring the JMeter HTTP proxy server; Setting up your browser to use the proxy server
Using a browser extensionChanging the machine system settings; Running your first recorded scenario; Anatomy of a JMeter test; Test Plan; Thread Groups; Controllers; Samplers; Logic controllers; Test fragments; Listeners; Timers; Assertions; Configuration elements; Pre-processor and post-processor elements; Summary; Chapter 3: Submitting Forms; Capturing simple forms; Handling checkboxes; Handling radio buttons; Handling file uploads; Handling file downloads; Posting JSON data; Reading JSON data; Using the BSF PostProcessor; Handling the XML response; Summary; Chapter 4: Managing Sessions
Managing sessions with cookiesManaging sessions with URL rewriting; Summary; Chapter 5: Resource Monitoring; Basic server monitoring; Setting up the Apache Tomcat Server; Configuring Tomcat users; Setting up a monitor controller in JMeter; Monitoring the server with a JMeter plugin; Installing the plugins; Add monitor listeners to the test plan; Summary; Chapter 6: Distributed Testing; Remote testing with JMeter; Configuring JMeter slave nodes; Configuring one slave per machine; Configuring the master node to be tested against one slave per machine
Configuring multiple slave nodes on a single boxConfiguring the master node to be tested against multiple slave nodes on a single box; Leveraging the cloud for distributed testing; Obtaining your access key, secret key, and key pair; Launching an AWS instance; Executing the test plan; Viewing the results from the virtual machines; Summary; Chapter 7: Helpful Tips; JMeter properties and variables; JMeter functions; The Regular Expression tester; The Debug sampler; Using timers in your test plan; The Constant timer; The Gaussian random timer; The Uniform random timer
The Constant throughput timerThe Synchronizing timer; The Poisson random timer; The JDBC Request sampler; Setting up the H2 database; Configuring a JDBC Connection Configuration component; Add a JDBC Request sampler; A Dummy sampler; The JSON Path Extractor element; Handling RESTful web services; Summary; Index
Summary: Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 is a standard tutorial that will help you polish your fundamentals, guide you through various advanced topics, and along the process help you learn new tools and skills.This book is for developers, quality assurance engineers, testers, and test managers new to Apache JMeter, or those who are looking to get a good grounding in how to effectively use and become proficient with it. No prior testing experience is required.
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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.packtpub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Performance Testing Fundamentals; The incident; The aftermath; Performance testing; Performance testing and tuning; Baselines; Load and stress testing; JMeter to the rescue; Up and running with JMeter; Installation; Installing Java JDK; Setting JAVA_HOME; Running JMeter; Tracking errors during test execution; Configuring JMeter; Summary; Chapter 2: Recording Your First Test; Configuring the JMeter HTTP proxy server; Setting up your browser to use the proxy server

Using a browser extensionChanging the machine system settings; Running your first recorded scenario; Anatomy of a JMeter test; Test Plan; Thread Groups; Controllers; Samplers; Logic controllers; Test fragments; Listeners; Timers; Assertions; Configuration elements; Pre-processor and post-processor elements; Summary; Chapter 3: Submitting Forms; Capturing simple forms; Handling checkboxes; Handling radio buttons; Handling file uploads; Handling file downloads; Posting JSON data; Reading JSON data; Using the BSF PostProcessor; Handling the XML response; Summary; Chapter 4: Managing Sessions

Managing sessions with cookiesManaging sessions with URL rewriting; Summary; Chapter 5: Resource Monitoring; Basic server monitoring; Setting up the Apache Tomcat Server; Configuring Tomcat users; Setting up a monitor controller in JMeter; Monitoring the server with a JMeter plugin; Installing the plugins; Add monitor listeners to the test plan; Summary; Chapter 6: Distributed Testing; Remote testing with JMeter; Configuring JMeter slave nodes; Configuring one slave per machine; Configuring the master node to be tested against one slave per machine

Configuring multiple slave nodes on a single boxConfiguring the master node to be tested against multiple slave nodes on a single box; Leveraging the cloud for distributed testing; Obtaining your access key, secret key, and key pair; Launching an AWS instance; Executing the test plan; Viewing the results from the virtual machines; Summary; Chapter 7: Helpful Tips; JMeter properties and variables; JMeter functions; The Regular Expression tester; The Debug sampler; Using timers in your test plan; The Constant timer; The Gaussian random timer; The Uniform random timer

The Constant throughput timerThe Synchronizing timer; The Poisson random timer; The JDBC Request sampler; Setting up the H2 database; Configuring a JDBC Connection Configuration component; Add a JDBC Request sampler; A Dummy sampler; The JSON Path Extractor element; Handling RESTful web services; Summary; Index

Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 is a standard tutorial that will help you polish your fundamentals, guide you through various advanced topics, and along the process help you learn new tools and skills.This book is for developers, quality assurance engineers, testers, and test managers new to Apache JMeter, or those who are looking to get a good grounding in how to effectively use and become proficient with it. No prior testing experience is required.

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