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Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition

Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition

By : Erinle
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Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition

Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition

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By: Erinle
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Overview of this book

This book is great 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 JMeter. No prior testing experience is required.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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1. Performance Testing Fundamentals
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1. Performance Testing Fundamentals
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The incident
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The aftermath
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Performance testing
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Performance testing and tuning
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JMeter to the rescue
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Up and running with JMeter
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2. Recording Your First Test
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2. Recording Your First Test
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Configuring the JMeter HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder
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Setting up your browser to use the proxy server
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Anatomy of a JMeter test
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3. Submitting Forms
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3. Submitting Forms
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Capturing simple forms
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4. Managing Sessions
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4. Managing Sessions
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Managing sessions with cookies
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Managing sessions with URL rewriting
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5. Resource Monitoring
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5. Resource Monitoring
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Basic server monitoring
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Monitoring the server with a JMeter plugin
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6. Distributed Testing
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6. Distributed Testing
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Remote testing with JMeter
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Leveraging the cloud for distributed testing
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Using cloud services
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7. Helpful Tips
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7. Helpful Tips
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JMeter properties and variables
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JMeter functions
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The Regular Expression tester
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The debug sampler
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Using timers in your test plan
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The JDBC Request sampler
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Using a MongoDB Sampler
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A Dummy Sampler
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The JSON Path Extractor element
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Handling RESTful web services
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Index
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Chapter 2. Recording Your First Test

JMeter comes with a built-in test script recorder, also referred to as a proxy server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server), to aid you in recording test plans. The test script recorder, once configured, watches your actions as you perform operations on a website, creates test sample objects for them, and eventually stores them in your test plan, which is a JMX file. In addition, JMeter gives you the option to create test plans manually, but this is mostly impractical for recording nontrivial testing scenarios. You will save a whole lot of time using the proxy recorder, as you will be seeing in a bit.

So without further ado, let's record our first test! For this, we will record the browsing of JMeter's own official website as a user will normally do. For the proxy server to be able to watch your actions, it will need to be configured. This entails two steps:

  1. Setting up the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder within JMeter.
  2. Setting the...
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