Master Apache JMeter - From Load Testing to DevOps

Learn how to get the most out of JMeter, improve the productivity of your apps, and integrate JMeter with your Agile and DevOps processes.

Key Features

• Gain insights into preparing test environments and selecting the correct use cases to load test
• Learn to analyze a load test with Backend Listener, HTML Report Dashboard, and View Results Tree
• Explore how to integrate JMeter in the software factory

Book Description

Load tests help identify the maximum number of requests a software system can handle. One popular open source tool for load testing is JMeter. By leveraging the features and capabilities of JMeter, you can perform extensive load testing and fix issues in your application before they become problematic.

This book begins by discussing the whole process, including recording a script, setting it up, and launching it, enabling you to almost immediately start load testing. You'll learn the best practices that you must follow while designing test cases. You'll also explore the different protocols offered by JMeter through various real-world examples. Finally, you'll see how to integrate JMeter into the DevOps approach and create professional reports. You'll discover ways to use the eco-system of JMeter to integrate new protocols, enrich its monitoring, and leverage its power through the use of the cloud.

By the end of this book, you'll know all that's needed to perform comprehensive load testing on your applications by using all the best practices and features of JMeter.

What you will learn

• Explore various JMeter concepts, including Timers scope and Assertions scope
• Discover the types of test protocols and load tests that JMeter supports
• Design a realistic test scenario using various tips and best practices
• Prepare your test environment with injectors and the system under test
• Learn and apply good practices when recording a script
• Integrate JMeter with Jenkins using Maven

Who this book is for

This book contains all the valuable information you need in one place and is a must for everybody who is seriously working with JMeter. It might be a little condensed for absolute beginners, but this book is the best you can find if you already have some performance testing experience and want to get further. In particular, it would be invaluable to developers who want to expand their JMeter knowledge into advanced topics or switch to JMeter from other load testing tools.

Table of Contents

1. Quick Start with JMeter
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

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.

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.

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.