Web Applications Performance Testing with JMeter

The JMeter course is designed to help Testing Professionals to Use JMeter for Web Application Performance Testing Projects effectively and efficiently. The course outline is customized to suite your needs. Our instructors have experience in helping you to build confidence in using the JMeter effectively and efficiently.

Intended Audience

• Software Test Engineers
• Software Developers involved in Agile Development

At the End of JMeter Training the Delegates will be able to;

• Use JMeter Effectively in Web Applications Performance Testing
• Understand Challenges in Performance Testing Projects and Work Collaboratively with Stakeholders
• Collect Appropriate Data and Create Useful Reports
• Create JMeter Scripts within 10 min for Simple Stress and Load Testing

Course Outline

• Performance Testing Fundamentals
  • Introduction to Web Applications Performance Testing
  • Performance Testing Concepts : Stress, Load , Regression,Spike, Compatibility,Endurance
  • Why do we use JMeter ?
  • Ramp-up Period
  • Thread Groups and Simulating Real Users using Thread Groups
  • Other Technical Terms
• Managing Performance Testing Project
  • Identify Test Environment
  • Identify Performance Test Acceptance Criteria
  • Modeling Application Usage
  • Determining Individual User Data and Variances
  • Setup Test Environment
  • Test Execution
  • Collecting Test Results Effectively
  • Key Mathematical Principles for Performance Testing
  • Performance Test Reporting Fundamentals
  • Working with Various Stakeholders
• JMeter Basics
  • JMeter Installation and Configuration
  • Introducing JMeter GUI
  • Create a Basic Test Plan
  • Introducing Various Elements in JMeter
  • Executing Tests with Various Configurations
  • Reading Test Results
  • Creating a Test Plan within 10 minutes
• Simulate Dynamic User Behaviors
  • Submitting Forms
  • Generating Sequence or Random data
  • Extracting form IDs
  • Use of Regular Expressions Extractors
• Building Test Plans
  • Building an Advance Web Test plan
  • Building a FTP Test Plan
  • Building a Database Test Plan
• Managing Sessions
  • Session Managers
  • Session per Thread
  • Session per User
  • Cookie Manager
  • URL Re-writer
• Load Distribution
  • Using Web Server Log Files to Determine Distribution
  • Analyzing Distribution and creating appropriate Test Plans
• Timers
  • Use of Timers in a Test Plan
  • Introduce Various Timers available in JMeter
  • Use of Java Request as a Timer
  • Selecting a Timer
• Jmeter Components
  • Logical Controllers
  • Listeners
  • Config Elements
  • Assertions
  • Post and Pre-processors
• Resource Monitoring
  • Monitoring and Analyzing CPU Resources
  • Monitoring Database Queries
  • Monitoring Memory Utilization
  • Monitoring Network Traffic
  • Running Monitoring Tools Periodically
• Analyzing and Interpreting Load Test Results
  • Running tests at Night and creating Periodical Reports
  • Statistics available from JMeter
  • Sample, Average, Median, Deviation, Throughput, Percentiles
  • Response Time Graphs
  • Analyzing results with Excel
  • Interpreting Statistical Results
  • Finding the Bottlenecks
• Advanced
  • Distributed testing
  • Extending JMeter with Java, BeanShell and JavaScript
• Other
  • Tips and Best Practices
  • How to get Help

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