Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Should you need to customize JMeter default values, you can do so by editing the jmeter.properties file in the JMETER_HOME/bin folder, or making a copy of that file, renaming it to something different (for example, my-jmeter.properties), and specifying that as a command-line option when starting JMeter."

A block of code is set as follows:

name=firstName0lastName0
name_g=2
name_g0="firstName":"Larry","jobs":[{"id":1,"description":"Doctor"}],"lastName":"Ellison"
name_g1=Larry
name_g2=Ellison
server=jmeterbook.aws.af.cm

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

name=firstName0lastName0
name_g=2
name_g0="firstName":"Larry","jobs":[{"id":1,"description":"Doctor"}],"lastName":"Ellison"
name_g1=Larry
name_g2=Ellison
server=jmeterbook.aws.af.cm

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

vagrant ssh n1
cd /opt/apache-jmeter-2.12/bin
./jmeter --version

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Launch JMeter."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.