Performance Testing with JMeter - Second Edition
Test Web Applications Using Apache JMeter with Practical, Hands-On Examples
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Erschienen am 24. April 2015
164 Seiten
978-1-78439-534-6 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This book is a practical, hands-on guide that equips you with all the essential skills needed to effectively use JMeter to test web applications using a number of clear, step-by-step recipes.The book starts with the basics of performance testing and teaches you how to go about recording your first test. The book then focuses on distributed testing, teaching you how to configure master and slave nodes as well as leverage the cloud and launch AWS instances. The book ends with some tips and best practices with regard to performance testing such as how to use the debug sampler, H2 database, dummy sampler, and MongoDB sampler, among others.By the end of the book, you will have learned how to take full advantage of the real power behind Apache JMeter, quickly taking you from a novice to an expert.
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Inhalt
- 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 up JAVA_HOME
- Running JMeter
- Tracking errors during test execution
- Configuring JMeter
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Recording Your First Test
- Configuring the JMeter HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder
- Setting up your browser to use the proxy server
- Using a browser extension
- Changing the machine system settings
- Running your first recorded scenario
- Excilys Bank case study
- Parameterizing the script
- Anatomy of a JMeter test
- Test plan
- Thread groups
- Controllers
- Samplers
- Logic controllers
- Test fragments
- Listeners
- Timers
- Assertions
- Configuration elements
- Preprocessor and postprocessor 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 BSF PostProcessor
- Handling XML responses
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Managing Sessions
- Managing sessions with cookies
- Managing sessions with URL rewriting
- Summary
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 6: Distributed Testing
- Remote testing with JMeter
- Configuring JMeter slave nodes
- Configuring one slave per machine
- Configuring the master node
- Configuring multiple slave nodes on a single box
- Configuring the master node
- Leveraging the cloud for distributed testing
- Obtaining your access key, secret key, and key pair
- Launching the AWS instance
- Executing the test plan
- Viewing the results from the virtual machines
- Using cloud services
- Using Flood.io
- Using BlazeMeter
- 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 Timer
- The Synchronizing Timer
- The Poisson Random Timer
- The JDBC Request sampler
- Setting up the H2 database
- Configuring a JDBC Connection Configuration component
- Adding a JDBC Request sampler
- Using a MongoDB Sampler
- A Dummy Sampler
- The JSON Path Extractor element
- Handling RESTful web services
- Summary
- Index
