JMeter Turorials

JMeter is one of the most prominent load testing tool in the field of performance testing. JMeter can be used to carry out performance testing not just for web but also web services, database, LDAP, SMTP, POP3 etc. There is tons of JMeter documentation available online, but if you are beginning with JMeter or Load Testing in general then you might be overwhelmed with the amount of information available online. Following JMeter training video tutorial series tries to make it easy to learn JMeter. This JMeter training video tutorial series focuses on most important aspects of JMeter along with code examples for JMeter. Given that technology changes with time so as the JMeter hence following JMeter training series is expanding with time. So what are you waiting for? Hope on to learning JMeter

Before watching JMeter training videos, you may like to read following tutorials on Performance Testing -

• Performance Testing Activities - Part 1
• Performance Testing Activities - Part 2

JMeter project file used in tutorial projects can be downloaded as raw version and then you can import it in your JMeter test plan. Other JMeter Project Files are also available for download.

JMeter Training Content

JMeter Training Video/Tutorial

Introduction to JMeter What can you test with JMeter Download JMeter and start JMeter Elements of a JMeter test plan Test Plan Thread Group Sample and Logical Controller HTTP Request Sampler Once only controller, Interleave Controller Config Elements - CSV Data Set Config, HTTP Request Default, HTTPCookie Manager Listeners

Introducing JMeter

More on JMeter listeners - Graph results listener View Results Tree Assertion Results Aggregate Report CSV Log Format XML Log Format

JMeter Listeners

Creating first JMeter test - Record JMeter test using badboy Import jmx file to JMeter Loop Controller Analyze Sampler recorded from Badboy Rename Sampler Add Response Assertion to mercury Registration sampler Add Listeners - View Results in Tree and Aggregate Report Run test and analyze results Modify Response Assertion to raise false alarm and run test again

Running your first JMeter Test

JMeter Timer and Scoping rules - Timers Scoping Rules Execution Order jmeter.properties file

JMeter timer and scoping rules

jmeter.log file Functional testing setting in test plan JMeter HTTP Sampler HTTP Default Config element Response assertion

JMeter HTTP Sampler

JMeter and AJAX request - Adding user defined variable in Test Plan, ex: App URL Ajax request Example - zalando-UK site Replay the ajaxified JMeter script and analyze failure Analyze the ajax request again with firebug and observe headers Observe - xsrfToken in Response Data for first request X-XSRF-Token passed in header manager of ajax request Introducing Regular expression extractor - Post Processor Element Rerun the modified script

JMeter and AJAX request

JMeter non GUI test execution- Storing JMeter results in non GUI run mode Executing JMeter tests in non GUI mode File Format for JMeter reports in xml file File format for JMeter reports in csv format

Storing JMeter results in non GUI mode

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JMeter and CSV Data Set Configuration - Using JMeter Template “Recording Template” Using csv data set configuration to parameterize data Location of CSV file HTTP Request Sampler - “Embedded Resources from HTML files” > “Retrieve All Embedded Resources” Run test with thread count 2 View csv test data in JMeter HTTP sampler View downloaded resources in View Results in Tree listener

JMeter and CSV data set configuration

HTTP Cache Headers - Response Headers - Cache-control Expires Last-Modified ETag Request Headers - If-Modified-Since If-None-Match HTTP cache headers

HTTP cache headers

HTTP Cache Manager Running Test from command line

HTTP Cache Manager

HTTP Cookie Manager - Cookie Manager Element Running test with and without cookie manager

HTTP Cookie Manager

Transaction Controller - Using Transaction Controller Modes of operations of transaction controller

Transaction Controller

User Defined Properties - User defined properties HTTP Request Default Execute test using shell script and view Results in Table Execute test for 2 threads and view Results in Table Save results in xml format and view results in Tree Save response data on error and view results in Tree

User Defined Properties

JMeter custom graph - Why use Custom Graphs Setup JMeter Plugins Jmeter plugin download - http://jmeter-plugins.org/downloads/all/#Latest-Stable-Release Plot custom graph -    Active Threads Over Time    Response Times Over Time    Transactions per Second    Server Hits per Second (aka Hits per second)    Response Times Percentiles Combine multiple graphs using Composite Graph

JMeter Custom Graphs

Graph Generator Listener - JMeterPlugins-Extras is for Graphs Generator Listener (from JMeterPlugins-ExtrasLibs jar) Graphs Generator Listener generates the following graphs at end of test or previous test - :     Active Threads Over Time Response Times Over Time Transactions per Second Server Hits per Seconds Response Codes per Second Response Latencies Over Time Bytes Throughput Over Time Response Times vs Threads Transaction Throughput vs Threads Response Times Distribution Response Times Percentiles Generate CSV / PNG for current test results Requires usages of View Results Tree or Graphs Generator Listener      Not recommended ! Generate CSV / PNG for existing/previous test results

Graph Generator Listener

JMeter Backend Listener Setup JMeter BackEnd Listener Test Plan deep dive into seleniumtests.com.jmx test plan Enable View Results Tree listener and Run Test Check that data is pushed in influx db > jmeter database - http://localhost:8083/ Disable View Results Tree listener and Run Test from command line. Grafana Dashboard Analyze Grafana Dashboard - http://localhost:3000/ Edit board and view query Off line Analysis - Once test run is over then update time stamp and view result of past run Project files You will find following files - Test Plan script2.sh Grafana Dashboard json file > to import and create Grafana dashboard

JMeter Backend Listener

Introduction to JMeter 3.0 - What's new with JMeter 3.0 Validate feature Sample timeout feature Summarizer display

JMeter 3.0

JMeter Reporting Dashboard - How to generate JMeter Dashboard Apdex, Jmeter graphs and charts Graph properties

JMeter Dashboard

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