Performance Testing with Jmeter 2.9

Chapter 1: Performance Testing Fundamentals Chapter 2: Recording Your First Test Chapter 3: Submitting Forms Chapter 4: Managing Sessions Chapter 5: Resource Monitoring Chapter 6: Distributed Testing Chapter 7: Helpful Tips Index Preface Up Chapter 1: Performance Testing Fundamentals The incident The aftermath Performance testing Performance testing and tuning Baselines Load and stress testing JMeter to the rescue Up and running with JMeter Installation Installing the Java JDK Setting JAVA_HOME Running JMeter Tracking errors during test execution Configuring JMeter Summary Up Chapter 2: Recording Your First Test Configuring the JMeter HTTP proxy server Setting up your browser to use the proxy server Using a browser extension Changing the system settings Running your first recorded scenario Anatomy of a JMeter test Test Plan Thread Groups Controllers Samplers Logic controllers Test fragments Listeners Timers Assertions Configuration elements Pre-processor and post-processor elements Summary Up Chapter 3: Submitting Forms Capturing simple forms Handling checkboxes Handling radio buttons Handling file uploads Handling file downloads Posting JSON data Reading JSON data Using the BSF PostProcessor Handling the XML response Summary Up Chapter 4: Managing Sessions Managing sessions with cookies Managing sessions with URL rewriting Summary Up Chapter 5: Resource Monitoring Basic server monitoring Setting up Apache Tomcat Server Configuring Tomcat users Setting up a monitor controller in JMeter Monitoring the server with a JMeter plugin Installing the plugins Adding monitor listeners to the test plan Summary Up Chapter 6: Distributed Testing Remote testing with JMeter Configuring JMeter slave nodes Configuring one slave per machine Configuring the master node to be tested against one slave per machine Configuring multiple slave nodes on a single box Configuring the master node to be tested against multiple slave nodes on a single box Leveraging the cloud for distributed testing Obtaining your access key, secret key, and key pair Launching an AWS instance Executing the test plan Viewing the results from the virtual machines Summary Up Chapter 7: Helpful Tips JMeter properties and variables JMeter functions The Regular Expression tester The Debug sampler Using timers in your test plan The Constant timer The Gaussian random timer The Uniform random timer The Constant throughput timer The Synchronizing timer The Poisson random timer The JDBC Request sampler Setting up an H2 database Configuring a JDBC Connection Configuration component Adding a JDBC Request sampler A Dummy sampler The JSON Path Extractor element Handling RESTful web services Summary