JMeter Training Course Contents

Introduction

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

Designing a basic test plan

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

Creating your first JMeter 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

The power of JMeter

• 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

Regression testing

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

Stress testing

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

Other key features

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

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Distributed (Remote) Testing

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

Variables

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

Functions

• Using functions
• Function helper

Using BeanShell Scripting

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

Testing Application with Real Data

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

Advanced Options (depends on time in Public Course)

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

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

Managing Sessions

• Session managers
• Session per thread
• Session per user

Load Distribution

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

Other Resources and Load Time

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

Resource Monitoring

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

Analysing and Interpreting Load Test Results

• 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

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Where the requirements come from?

• Traditional Business Analysis
• Use Cases, Scenarios and Tests
• Non functional requirements
• Performance
• Conformance
• UML in Business Analysis

Introduction to testing

• Functional Tests
• Regression Test
• UAT Tests
• Unit Tests
• Usability Tests
• Non Functional Tests
• Performance test
• Load test
• Stress test
• Soak test

Test or not to test

• Who is making decisions about what to test?
• The cost of testing irrelevant things
• Calculating ROI (what if something fails analysis)
• The role of Test Manager

The process of Testing

• Testing is a process and a strategy
• Identifying testing needs
• Gathering requirements (use cases, user stories)
• Scoping (choosing and prioritize scenarios)
• Designing tests
• Preparing data
• Preparing environment
• Creating or Recording tests
• Perform the test
• Analysis and reports
• Conclusions and improvement
• When to say "stop"

Product owner and Tests

• The customer representative and test priority
• Prioritizing tests
• Writing effective stories for UAT
• Acceptance criteria
• Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements and create tests

The sprint

• Sprint backlog and tests user stories
• Group exercise to plan a sprint

Finishing a sprint

• Scrum review meeting is a test

Is Agile and Scrum for you?

• Review of the Scrum process
• Comparison with other methodologies
• Benefits of pair programming
• Question and Answers Session