JMeter: Performance and Load Testing

Learn how to use Apache JMeter, a popular open-source performance testing tool, to create and execute load tests that help you highlight performance issues in your software.

Introduction

• Testing with JMeter
• What you should know
• What is load testing and why do we do it?

1. Getting Started

• Installing JMeter and JRE
• Installing graph plugins
• Creating a load test
• Adding a thread group
• Adding a sampler
• Adding a listener
• Running your first load test

2. Improving the Test

• Adding timers
• Adding assertions
• Adding HTTP managers

3. JMeter CLI

• Why use the command line?
• Opening JMeter through the CLI
• Running your load test through the CLI
• Saving CLI results to a .jtl file

4. Viewing the Results

• Importing a .jtl file to JMeter graphs
• Creating an HTML dashboard at CLI runtime
• Viewing the dashboard
• Pros and cons

Conclusion

• Next steps