Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 by Erinle, Bayo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Downloading the color images of this book Errata Piracy Questions

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

On Windows On Unix

Running JMeter

Command-line options JMeter's Classpath Configuring the proxy server Running in non-GUI mode Running in server mode Overriding properties

Tracking errors during test execution Configuring JMeter

Summary

2. Recording Your First Test

Configuring the JMeter HTTP proxy server Setting up your browser to use the proxy server

Using a browser extension Changing the 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

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

4. Managing Sessions

Managing sessions with cookies Managing sessions with URL rewriting Summary

5. Resource Monitoring

Basic server monitoring

Setting up Apache Tomcat Server

Configuring Tomcat users Setting up a monitor controller in JMeter

Monitoring the server with a JMeter plugin

Installing the plugins Adding monitor listeners to the test plan

Summary

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 box Configuring 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

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 timer The Synchronizing timer The Poisson random timer

The JDBC Request sampler

Setting up an H2 database Configuring a JDBC Connection Configuration component Adding a JDBC Request sampler

A Dummy sampler The JSON Path Extractor element Handling RESTful web services Summary

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