Learn Jmeter in 24 Hours

Learn Jmeter in 24 Hours

By Alex Nordeen

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Table Of Content

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Installation Guide

Chapter 3: Complete Element Reference

Thread Group

Samplers

Listeners

Configuration

Chapter 4: Hands on with JMeter GUI

Chapter 5: Performance Testing using Jmeter

Chapter 6: Timers

Chapter 7: Assertions

Response Assertion

Duration Assertion

Size Assertion

XML Assertion

HTML Assertion

Chapter 8: Controllers

Chapter 9: Processor

Chapter 10: Distributed Testing in JMeter

Chapter 11: HTTP Proxy Server Testing

Chapter 12: Best Practices for your Jmeter Tests

Chapter 1: Introduction

Have you ever tested a web server to know how efficiently it works? How many concurrent users can a web server handle?

Let say that one day, your boss asks you to do performance testing of www.google.com for 100 users. What would you do?

Maybe your boss, who is a beginner, will ask you

This tutorial will help you to answer his question and complete your task.

What is JMeter?

The Apache JMeterTM is pure Java open source software, which was first developed by Stefano Mazzocchi of the Apache Software Foundation, designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. You can use JMeter to analyze and measure the performance of web application or variety of services. Performance testing means testing a web application against heavy load, multiple and concurrent user traffic. JMeter originally is used for testing Web Application or FTP application. Nowadays, it is used for functional test, database server test etc.

Why JMeter ?

JMeter advantages are described as figure below

Open source license:JMeteris totally free,  allows developer use the source code for the development

Friendly GUI:JMeteris extremely easy to use and doesn't take time to get familiar with it

Platform independent:JMeteris 100% pure Java desktop application. So it can run on multiple platforms

Full multi-threading framework.JMeterallows concurrent and simultaneous sampling of different functions by a separate thread group

Visualize Test Result:Test result can be display in a different format such as chart, table, tree and log file

Easy installation: You just copy and run the *.bat file to runJMeter. No installation needed.

Highly Extensible: You can write your own tests.JMeteralso supports visualization plugins allow you extend your testing

Multiple testing strategy:JMetersupports many testing strategies