JMeter Course Syllabus

• Why use JMeter?
• Overview of functional/regression/stress testing principles

• How to identify your testing needs
• Defining the steps of your test

• Introducing the JMeter GUI
• The basic elements of a JMeter test plan
• Building a functional test with your Internet browser
• Executing your functional test
• Reading the results of your test

• Comprehensive overview of the available JMeter components and functions
• Implementing an advanced functional test using the key JMeter functions and components
• Designing and implementing your own practical example to “test” a website of your choice

• Using your functional tests for regression testing
• Future proofing your tests

• Analysing your website traffic
• Identifying what you need to test
• Mimicking the real world in JMeter
• Extracting and reading the results

• Stress testing a database
• Using JMeter from the command line
• Editing a test plan in a text/XML editor

• Preparing remote environment
• Running distributed
• Gethering and analysing results
• Using distributed testing with load balancers

• Creating user variable
• Extracting data from a web page to a variable

• Using functions
• Function helper

• Short introduction to BeanShell
• Creating samplers
• BeanShell listener
• __BeanShell function

• Configuring Apache Web Server to record appropriate data
• Access Log Sampler
• Security issues

• Using Artificial Intelligence (Markov4Jmeter and others)
• Installing External Plugins

Web Application Performance Testing with JMeter Training Course

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

• Configuring servers
• Gathering results

• Extracting form ID or checksums
• Generating sequence or random data
• Getting data from database
• Recording forms with a JMeter proxy server
• Submitting data recorded in log files

• Session managers
• Session per thread
• Session per user

• Using Apache log files to determine distribution
• Analysing distribution and creating appropriate test plans
• Timers
• Gaussian Random Timer

• Images
• Java scripts
• JMeter and HTTP headers policy (browser and proxy caching)

• Monitoring and analysing CPU resources
• Monitoring database queries
• Monitoring memory utilization
• Monitoring network traffic
• Running monitoring tools periodically

• Running tests at night and creating periodical reports
• Statistics available from JMeter
• Sample, Average, Median, Deviation, Throughput
• Response time graphs
• Margins of Error
• Analysing results with Excel
• Interpreting statistical results
• Finding the bottlenecks
• Regression and correlations

Learn how to execute the order of testing elements to build a test plan for better result analysis in our JMeter Training at Softlogic.