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Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition

By : Erinle
Book Image

Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition

By: Erinle

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)

Anatomy of a JMeter test

With the samples we have explored so far, we have seen a similar pattern emerging. We have seen what mostly constitutes a JMeter test plan. We'll use the remainder of this chapter to explore the anatomy and composition of the JMeter tests.

Test plan

This is the root element of the JMeter scripts and houses the other components such as Threads, Config Elements, Timers, PreProcessors, PostProcessors, Assertions, and Listeners. It also offers a few configurations of its own.

First off, it allows you to define user variables (name-value pairs) that can be used later in your scripts. It also allows the configuration of how the thread groups that it contains should run, that is, should thread groups run one at a time? As test plans evolve over time, you'll often have several thread groups contained within a test plan. This option allows you determine how they run. By default, all thread groups are set to run concurrently. A useful option when getting started is...