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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)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Performance Testing Fundamentals, covers the fundamentals of performance testing and the installation and configuration of JMeter.

Chapter 2, Recording Your First Test, dives into recording your first JMeter test script and covers the anatomy of a JMeter test script.

Chapter 3, Submitting Forms, covers form submission in detail. It includes handling various HTML form elements (checkboxes, radio, file uploads and downloads, and so on), JSON data, and XML.

Chapter 4, Managing Sessions, explains session management, including cookies and URL rewriting.

Chapter 5, Resource Monitoring, dives into the active monitoring of system resources while executing tests. You get to start up a server and extend JMeter via plugins.

Chapter 6, Distributed Testing, takes an in-depth look at leveraging the cloud for performance testing. We dive into tools such as Vagrant and AWS, and explore the existing cloud testing platforms, BlazeMeter and Flood.io.

Chapter 7, Helpful Tips, provides you with helpful techniques and tips for getting the most out of JMeter.