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At a Glance; Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Foundation; Why Performance Testing?; Why JMeter?; Chapter 2: Performance Testing Primer; Performance Testing; Response Time; Throughput; Utilization; Robustness; Scalability; User Perception; Cost; Types of Performance Tests; Stress Tests; Load Tests; Peak Load Tests; Soak Tests or Endurance Tests; Scalability Tests; Capacity Tests; Spike Tests and Burst Capacity; Performance Smoke Tests; High Availability Test/Fail-Over Tests; The Performance Test Environment
The Need for Separate Performance EnvironmentThe Performance Environment Should Be Like the Production Environment; The Performance Environment Should Be Isolated; Performance Testing Tools; The Performance Testing Strategy Document; Performance Requirements; Performance Goals; Performance Test Suite; Performance Reporting and Analysis; Performance Tuning; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Your First JMeter Test; Components of a JMeter Test; Test Plan; Thread Group; Controller; Sampler; Listener; Timer; Assertions; Config Element; Pre-Processors; Post-Processors; Order of Component Execution
Simple JMeter TestGUI Mode; Non-GUI Mode; Executing a Single Test; Proxy Server Setting; Start JMeter in Server Mode; Stop/Shutdown JMeter; Conclusion; Chapter 4: JMeter Test Script Recorder; JMeter WorkBench; JMeter Recording Controller; Browser Proxy Settings; Recording Example; Conclusion; Chapter 5: JMeter Test Plan Components; Test Plan; Configuration; Serial Execution of Thread Groups; Parallel Execution of Thread Groups; User Defined Variables; Thread Group; Thread Properties; Scheduler; Action After Sampler Error; Pre-Processors; HTTP URL Re-Writing Modifier; Controller
Simple ControllerTransaction Controller; Loop Controller; Runtime Controller; Throughput Controller; Once Only Controller; Interleave Controller; Random Controller; Random Order Controller; Switch Controller; ForEach Controller; If Controller; Timers; Constant Timer; Gaussian Random Timer; Uniform Random Timer; Constant Throughput Timer; Synchronizing Timer; Sampler; HTTP Request; Implementing the HTTP Request Sampler; Protocols; Redirect Automatically; Follow Redirect; Use KeepAlive; Use Multipart/Form-Data for POST; Browser-Compatible Headers; Send Parameter with the Request; Body Data
Switching Between Name:Value and Body DataSend Files with the Request; Proxy Server; Embedded Resources for HTML Files; Source Address; Option Task; Assertions; Response Assertion; Apply to Property; Response Field to Test Property; Pattern Matching Rules Property; Pattern to Test Property; Listener; View Results Tree; View Results In Table; Aggregate Report; Post-Processors; Regular Expression Extractor; Properties and Variables; Comparison of Properties and Variables; User Defined Variables; Using the Command Line to Initialize Properties; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Distributed Testing
The Need for Separate Performance EnvironmentThe Performance Environment Should Be Like the Production Environment; The Performance Environment Should Be Isolated; Performance Testing Tools; The Performance Testing Strategy Document; Performance Requirements; Performance Goals; Performance Test Suite; Performance Reporting and Analysis; Performance Tuning; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Your First JMeter Test; Components of a JMeter Test; Test Plan; Thread Group; Controller; Sampler; Listener; Timer; Assertions; Config Element; Pre-Processors; Post-Processors; Order of Component Execution
Simple JMeter TestGUI Mode; Non-GUI Mode; Executing a Single Test; Proxy Server Setting; Start JMeter in Server Mode; Stop/Shutdown JMeter; Conclusion; Chapter 4: JMeter Test Script Recorder; JMeter WorkBench; JMeter Recording Controller; Browser Proxy Settings; Recording Example; Conclusion; Chapter 5: JMeter Test Plan Components; Test Plan; Configuration; Serial Execution of Thread Groups; Parallel Execution of Thread Groups; User Defined Variables; Thread Group; Thread Properties; Scheduler; Action After Sampler Error; Pre-Processors; HTTP URL Re-Writing Modifier; Controller
Simple ControllerTransaction Controller; Loop Controller; Runtime Controller; Throughput Controller; Once Only Controller; Interleave Controller; Random Controller; Random Order Controller; Switch Controller; ForEach Controller; If Controller; Timers; Constant Timer; Gaussian Random Timer; Uniform Random Timer; Constant Throughput Timer; Synchronizing Timer; Sampler; HTTP Request; Implementing the HTTP Request Sampler; Protocols; Redirect Automatically; Follow Redirect; Use KeepAlive; Use Multipart/Form-Data for POST; Browser-Compatible Headers; Send Parameter with the Request; Body Data
Switching Between Name:Value and Body DataSend Files with the Request; Proxy Server; Embedded Resources for HTML Files; Source Address; Option Task; Assertions; Response Assertion; Apply to Property; Response Field to Test Property; Pattern Matching Rules Property; Pattern to Test Property; Listener; View Results Tree; View Results In Table; Aggregate Report; Post-Processors; Regular Expression Extractor; Properties and Variables; Comparison of Properties and Variables; User Defined Variables; Using the Command Line to Initialize Properties; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Distributed Testing