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JMeter Cookbook

You're reading from   JMeter Cookbook 70 insightful and practical recipes to help you successfully use Apache JMeter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783988280
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. JMeter Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Handling Responses 3. Building Robust Test Plans with Controllers 4. Testing Services 5. Diving into Distributed Testing 6. Extending JMeter 7. Building, Debugging, and Analyzing the Results of Test Plans 8. Beyond the Basics A. Installing the Supporting Software Needed for this Book Index

Testing REST web services


Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style of designing network applications that relies on a stateless client-server and cacheable communications protocol (HTTP). Compared to alternatives such as Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and so on, REST is lightweight, mainly because all communications between the client and server are over HTTP. This makes them easily testable as well.

REST web services adhere to the principles of REST and rely on the following HTTP methods: GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE. GET is used to list or retrieve resource(s), PUT is used to replace or update resource(s), POST is used to create a new resource, and DELETE is used to delete resource(s). Since REST is an architectural style and not a protocol, there is no official standard. The only constraints are to stick to the guidelines laid out by REST.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will cover how to test REST web services. Perform the following...

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