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Master Apache JMeter - From Load Testing to DevOps

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Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781839217647

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Apache Jmeter

Concepts

Application Testing

Authors (3):

Bruno Demion (Milamber)

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues

Philippe Mouawad

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

About the Book

1. Quick Start with JMeter FREE CHAPTER

2. JMeter Overview

3. Designing a Test Case

4. Important Concepts in JMeter

5. Preparing the Test Environment (Injectors and Tested Systems)

6. Being Productive with JMeter

7. Load Testing a Website

8. Load Testing Web Services

9. Load Testing a Database Server

10. Load Testing Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) via JMS

11. Performing a Load Test

12. Visualizing and Analyzing the Load Testing Results

13. Integration of JMeter in the DevOps Tool Chain

Load Testing a Database Server

Microservices architectures are increasingly being used, which involves more and more databases being used as well.

Usually, databases are accessed through an API, and therefore, for a load test to be as realistic as possible, it is necessary to test the API, and not the database directly:

Figure 9.1: Microservices architecture versus monolithic architecture

However, it may be useful to test the database directly when:

The API is not yet ready
To compare JDBC drivers easily
To tune database parameters
To compare different databases
To compare AWS RDS engine implementations (such as Aurora, Oracle, and SQL Server)
To check the database configuration
To check whether the cluster (as in, the VIP and load balancing strategy) is behaving well
To test the database production server before going live without having an API server production-ready
To do load testing on a database when a batch is...

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Authors (3)

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues has been an expert in the field of application performance for more than 10 years. Antonio has significant experience working with load testing tools like JMeter and LoadRunner. He is currently a committer and a PMC member of the JMeter project within the Apache Software Foundation.

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Philippe Mouawad

Philippe Mouawad

Philippe Mouawad is a technical expert and architect in J2E and web environments in the company Ubik-Ingenierie. He has been using JMeter since 2009. He contributes to the JMeter-Plugins (Redis DataSet, Graphs Generator Listener, and various patches) project. He is currently a committer and a PMC member of the JMeter project within the Apache Software Foundation. He is also a lead developer of the Ubik Load Pack solution.

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Bruno Demion (Milamber)

Bruno Demion (Milamber)

Bruno Demion, better known as Milamber, is a French computer scientist. Since December 2003, he has been working with JMeter to perform load tests in various missions and training courses. He contributes to the JMeter project, in particular on the translation into French of the graphical interface, corrections of anomalies as well as some behaviors (proxy HTTPS, new results tree, icon bar, and so on). He is currently a committer, PMC member and the PMC Chair of the Apache JMeter project within the Apache Software Foundation.

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