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Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9

By : Bayo Erinle
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Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9

By: Bayo Erinle

Overview of this book

Performance testing with JMeter 2.9 is critical to the success of any software product launch and continued scalability. Irrespective of the size of the application's user base, it's vital to deliver the best user experience to consumers. Apache JMeter is an excellent testing tool that provides an insight into how applications might behave under load enabling organizations to focus on making adequate preparations. Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 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 and practical step-by-step guides. It allows you take full advantage of the real power behind Apache JMeter, quickly taking you from novice to master. Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 begins with the fundamentals of performance testing and gets you acquainted with JMeter. It will guide you through recording realistic and maintainable scripts. You will acquire new skills working with tools such as Vagrant, Puppet, and AWS, allowing you to leverage the cloud to aid in distributed testing. You will learn how to do some BeanShell scripting and take advantage of regular expressions, JMeter properties, and extension points to build comprehensive and robust test suites. Also, you will learn how to test RESTful web services, deal with XML, JSON, file downloads/uploads, and much more. Topics like resource monitoring, distributed testing, managing sessions, and extending JMeter are also covered. Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 will teach you all you need to know to take full advantage of JMeter for testing web applications, dazzle your co-workers, and impress your boss! You will go from novice to pro in no time.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we have gone through the details of how to capture form submission in JMeter. We covered simple forms, with checkboxes and radio buttons. The same concepts covered in those sections can be applied to other input form elements such as text areas and comboboxes. We then explored how to deal with file uploads and downloads when recording test plans. Along the way, we addressed working with JSON data, both posting and consuming it. This exposed us to two powerful and flexible JMeter post processors, Regular Expression Extractor and BSF PostProcessor. Finally, we took a look at how to deal with XML data when we encounter it. For that, we covered yet another post processor JMeter offers, XPath Extractor PostProcessor. You should now be able to use what we have learned so far to accomplish most tasks you need to accomplish with forms while planning and scripting your test plans.

In the next chapter, we will dive into managing sessions with JMeter.