Web Application Performance Testing with JMeter

Participant should know how to create or record a test plan in JMeter.

This course has been created for test managers, testers, business analysts, designers, developers, administrators and anyone interested in planning and performing web application performance tests. It covers how to set up non-functional requirements, which indicators are most important in specific implementations, how to create a performance test plan, implement it in JMeter, execute it and analyse the results.

Performance Testing Fundamentals

• Stress testing
• Load testing
• Soak testing
• Running multiple threads
• Setting rump-up period
• Threads and users

Distributed Testing

• Configuring servers
• Gathering results

Submitting Forms

• Extracting form ID or checksums
• Recording forms with a JMeter proxy server

Managing Sessions

• Session managers
• Session per thread

Load Distribution

• Gaussian Random Timer

Other Resources and Load Time

• Images
• JMeter and HTTP headers

Analysing and Interpreting Load Test Results

• Statistics available from JMeter
• Sample, Average, Median, Deviation, Throughput
• Response time graphs
• Interpreting statistical results
• Finding the bottlenecks