Web Application Performance Testing with JMeter Training Course

Node ID: 1329
 

Duration

7 hours
 

Requirements

Participant should know how to create or record a test plan in JMeter.

 

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Overview

This course has been created for test managers, testers, business analysts, designers, developers, administrators and anyone interested in planning and performing web application performance tests. It covers how to set up a non-functional requirements, which indicators are most important in specific implementations, how to create a performance test plan, implement it in JMeter, execute it and analyse the results.

 

Course Outline

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