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Performance Testing with JMeter 3 - Third Edition

By : Bayo Erinle
Book Image

Performance Testing with JMeter 3 - Third Edition

By: Bayo Erinle

Overview of this book

JMeter is a Java application designed to load and test performance for web application. JMeter extends to improve the functioning of various other static and dynamic resources. This book is a great starting point to learn about JMeter. It covers the new features introduced with JMeter 3 and enables you to dive deep into the new techniques needed for measuring your website performance. The book starts with the basics of performance testing and guides you through recording your first test scenario, before diving deeper into JMeter. You will also learn how to configure JMeter and browsers to help record test plans. Moving on, you will learn how to capture form submission in JMeter, dive into managing sessions with JMeter and see how to leverage some of the components provided by JMeter to handle web application HTTP sessions. You will also learn how JMeter can help monitor tests in real-time. Further, you will go in depth into distributed testing and see how to leverage the capabilities of JMeter to accomplish this. You will get acquainted with some tips and best practices with regard to performance testing. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to take full advantage of the real power behind Apache JMeter.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Monitoring Tests in Real-Time

In this chapter, we'll explore how you can monitor tests in real time with JMeter. As you start building more complicated and long-running test plans, it becomes imperative to capture and analyze your results in real-time to tighten the feedback loop and self-correct earlier rather than later. Without a real-time monitoring mechanism, you will have to wait for tests to run to completion before you can analyze the results. In most situations, this is not ideal.

Thankfully, JMeter provides extension points that allow you to send test plan results to a time-series database and view those results with an elegant GUI, which you can monitor in real-time.

We will be exploring how we can leverage InfluxDB and Grafana to monitor and analyze test plans in real time.