Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9: If you want to use JMeter for performance testing your software products, this book is a great starting point. You'll get a great grounding in all the fundamentals and gain a wealth of new skills along the way.

Bayo Erinle

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3.5 (13 Ratings)

eBook Jul 2013 148 pages 1st Edition

Bayo Erinle

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Create realistic and maintainable scripts for web applications
Use various JMeter components to achieve testing goals
Removal of unnecessary errors and code compilation
Acquire skills that will enable you to leverage the cloud for distributed testing
Effectively monitor server resources during performance testing
Extend JMeter functionality by installing plugins

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Performance testing with JMeter 2.9 is critical to the success of any software product launch and continued scalability. Irrespective of the size of the application's user base, it's vital to deliver the best user experience to consumers. Apache JMeter is an excellent testing tool that provides an insight into how applications might behave under load enabling organizations to focus on making adequate preparations. Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 is a practical, hands-on guide that equips you with all the essential skills needed to effectively use JMeter to test web applications using a number of clear and practical step-by-step guides. It allows you take full advantage of the real power behind Apache JMeter, quickly taking you from novice to master. Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 begins with the fundamentals of performance testing and gets you acquainted with JMeter. It will guide you through recording realistic and maintainable scripts. You will acquire new skills working with tools such as Vagrant, Puppet, and AWS, allowing you to leverage the cloud to aid in distributed testing. You will learn how to do some BeanShell scripting and take advantage of regular expressions, JMeter properties, and extension points to build comprehensive and robust test suites. Also, you will learn how to test RESTful web services, deal with XML, JSON, file downloads/uploads, and much more. Topics like resource monitoring, distributed testing, managing sessions, and extending JMeter are also covered. Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 will teach you all you need to know to take full advantage of JMeter for testing web applications, dazzle your co-workers, and impress your boss! You will go from novice to pro in no time.

Who is this book for?

This book is 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 it. No prior testing experience is required.

What you will learn

Set up and prepare Apache JMeter for testing
Record test scenarios or create them from scratch
Test RESTful web services
Effectively monitor resources during a performance test
Maintain and manage user sessions
Distributed testing using Vagrant, Puppet, and AWS
Extend JMeter functionality through plugins
Understand and effectively use JMeter components to achieve testing needs
Build realistic, comprehensive, and maintainable test plans
Capture form submissions and appropriate handle server responses

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Zofia Nowinska Apr 26, 2014

I was looking for a book which help me to learn more about new version of JMeter and prepare training for my colleagues.I found this book a very good source of information, with practical advices in performance testing, with examples from real world.

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Yinka Erinle Oct 05, 2013

For anyone that has ever tried to read the JMeter documentation, you will agree it leaves you wanting. Look no further because this book fulfills that desire.Although it is not the first book on JMeter, it is certainly the one with the most current and relevant information in regards to leveraging the power of the tool for modern software stacks.Chapter 1: Begins by detailing a performance issue on a website that occurred due to a sudden surge in web traffic, a scenario that is commonly known as been slashdotted or techcrunched (Articles on any of these sites can significantly increase traffic to a website mentioned in the article). Then the book makes the case for performance testing, explains what is, where it fits in the SDLC process and why we should care.Chapter 3: Walks you through scenarios that are required for testing a web application by showing ways to tame any form elements on a web page. Also explains how to go about testing RESTful services, handling JSON or XML.Chapter 6: On distributed testing is full of amazing useful information, you learn how to configure a test involving multiple slave nodes on the same machine, the author walks you through the process of setting up and using vagrant to do this. While your mouth is still wide opened digesting the new possibilities you now have available in ensuring your application can handle concurrent requests and load, the author kicks it up a notch by showing you how to use the same configuration in the cloud (AWS).It's amazing the amount of information the author manages to deliver in 200+ pages.The book has so many useful tips and I firmly believe it is currently the best resource on JMeter.If you are working with JMeter or plan to, do yourself a favor and get this book.

hakbox android Aug 15, 2014

This book is great for a quick refresher if you haven't used JMeter in a while. It's also great for people who have not used JMeter before, as it gives some very basic and easy to understand step by step instructions on getting setup to run your first load and performance tests. It also covers some more advanced topics, albeit at a very high level.

SuJo Sep 20, 2013

Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9[...] - Pact Publishing If you are a web developer then you also know how important it is to stress test your applications, I have never used JMeter before, keeping that in mind I had a really fun and exciting adventure with reading this book. I was able to setup the test environment in order to utilize JMeter, the source code provided by the publisher worked without any errors. When you are developing your web applications it's important to stress test and check for bottlenecks before you set the project to go live, JMeter allowed me to check my code for these issues and previously I would have not been able to do that, so my code would go live and if a bottleneck occurred I would have to analyze everything without the use of a tool, typically I'd check my database, then I would try to see where I could optimize my code, talk about a lot of wasted time! One thing that I would love to let you know that I took away from reading this book was setting up a monitor controller in JMeter, it's so important to monitor a server, but even more important to check the load the server is dealing with, you can then track peak times and optimize for those spikes with previous data samples. So check your threads and know exactly where you're bottleneck is occurring!

Tim Koopmans Oct 02, 2013

It's great to see another JMeter book from Packt Publishing, and this title is an improvement to the original [...]I felt it is aimed at beginner to intermediate users, and it would be good to see a follow up title with some more advanced topics (cookbook recipe style perhaps?) to fill the gap.Having said that, this is a great companion book for those getting started with JMeter and will save them a lot of hassle navigating the current online docs for JMeter.The use of vagrant with puppet/aws provisioning is interesting, although distributed testing on the cloud is covered well by providers such as Flood.ioNot sure this book will take you from novice to pro but I will be recommending it to new users of JMeter in future.Well done Bayo

Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9: If you want to use JMeter for performance testing your software products, this book is a great starting point. You'll get a great grounding in all the fundamentals and gain a wealth of new skills along the way.

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