JMeter Cookbook

70 insightful and practical recipes to help you successfully use Apache JMeter

About This Book

• Leverage existing cloud services for distributed testing and learn to employ your own cloud infrastructure when needed
• Successfully integrate JMeter into your continuous delivery workflow allowing you to deliver high quality products
• Test application supporting services and resources including RESTful, SOAP, JMS, FTP and Database

Who This Book Is For

This book is great for you if you are a developer, quality assurance engineer, tester, or test manager who is looking to get a firmer grasp of elementary, deep, and advanced testing concepts using Apache JMeter. It’s assumed you have access to a computer and an Internet connection. No prior testing or programming experience is required, but would be helpful.

In Detail

Performance testing is critical to the success of any software product launch and continued scalability. No matter the size of the user base of an application, it is crucial to deliver the best user experience to consumers. Apache JMeter is an excellent testing tool that provides an insight on how applications might behave under load, allowing organizations to focus on making adequate preparations for the delivery of quality, robust, and foolproof applications to stakeholders.

This hands-on guide will equip you with the all the skills you need to effectively use JMeter to test web applications and supporting services. With over 50 carefully selected recipes, you will learn how to take full advantage of JMeter for all your testing needs, overcome any challenges you face, and optimize the knowledge you already have.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. JMeter Fundamentals
Chapter 2. Handling Responses
Chapter 3. Building Robust Test Plans with Controllers
Chapter 4. Testing Services
Chapter 5. Diving into Distributed Testing
Chapter 6. Extending JMeter
Chapter 7. Building, Debugging, and Analyzing the Results of Test Plans
Chapter 8. Beyond the Basics