Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9电子书

Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9

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Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Performance Testing Fundamentals

The incident

The aftermath

Performance testing

Performance testing and tuning

Baselines

Load and stress testing

JMeter to the rescue

Up and running with JMeter

Installation

Installing Java JDK

Setting JAVA_HOME

On Windows

On Unix

Running JMeter

Command-line options

JMeter's Classpath

Configuring the proxy server

Running in non-GUI mode

Running in server mode

Overriding properties

Tracking errors during test execution

Configuring JMeter

Summary

2. Recording Your First Test

Configuring the JMeter HTTP proxy server

Setting up your browser to use the proxy server

Using a browser extension

Changing the system settings

Running your first recorded scenario

Anatomy of a JMeter test

Test Plan

Thread Groups

Controllers

Samplers

Logic controllers

Test fragments

Listeners

Timers

Assertions

Configuration elements

Pre-processor and post-processor elements

Summary

3. Submitting Forms

Capturing simple forms

Handling checkboxes

Handling radio buttons

Handling file uploads

Handling file downloads

Posting JSON data

Reading JSON data

Using the BSF PostProcessor

Handling the XML response

Summary

4. Managing Sessions

Managing sessions with cookies

Managing sessions with URL rewriting

Summary

5. Resource Monitoring

Basic server monitoring

Setting up Apache Tomcat Server

Configuring Tomcat users

Setting up a monitor controller in JMeter

Monitoring the server with a JMeter plugin

Installing the plugins

Adding monitor listeners to the test plan

Summary

6. Distributed Testing

Remote testing with JMeter

Configuring JMeter slave nodes

Configuring one slave per machine

Configuring the master node to be tested against one slave per machine

Configuring multiple slave nodes on a single box

Configuring the master node to be tested against multiple slave nodes on a single box

Leveraging the cloud for distributed testing

Obtaining your access key, secret key, and key pair

Launching an AWS instance

Executing the test plan

Viewing the results from the virtual machines

Summary

7. Helpful Tips

JMeter properties and variables

JMeter functions

The Regular Expression tester

The Debug sampler

Using timers in your test plan

The Constant timer

The Gaussian random timer

The Uniform random timer

The Constant throughput timer

The Synchronizing timer

The Poisson random timer

The JDBC Request sampler

Setting up an H2 database

Configuring a JDBC Connection Configuration component

Adding a JDBC Request sampler

A Dummy sampler

The JSON Path Extractor element

Handling RESTful web services

Summary

Index