Online JMeter and web applications performance testing training

Course outline

Performance Testing Fundamentals
-Introduction to web applications performance testing
-Performance testing concepts : Stress, Load , Regression
-Why use Jmeter ?
-Ramp-up period
-Thread groups and simulating real users using thread groups
-Other technical terms

Managing performance testing project
-Identify test environment
-Identify performance test acceptance criteria
-Modeling application usage
-Determining individual user data and variances
-Test execution
-Key mathematic principles for performance testing
-Performance test reporting fundamentals
-Working with various stakeholders

JMeter Basics
-JMeter installation and configuration
-Introducing JMeter GUI
-Create a basic Test Plan
-Introducing various elements in JMeter
-Executing tests with various configurations
-Reading test results
-Creating a test plan within 15min

Simulate dynamic user behaviors
-Submitting Forms
-Generating sequence or random data
-Extracting form IDs
-Use of regular expressions extractors

Building Test Plans
-Building an advance web test plan
-Building a FTP test plan
-Building a Database test plan

Managing Sessions
-Session managers
-Session per thread
-Session per user
-Cookie Manager
-URL rewriter

Load Distribution
-Using web server log files to determine distribution
-Analyzing distribution and creating appropriate test plans

Timers
-Use of timers in a test plan
-Introduce various timers available in JMeter
-Use of Java request as a timer
-Selecting a timer

Jmeter components
-Logical Controllers
-Listeners
-Config Elements
-Assertions
-Post and Pre-processors

Resource Monitoring
-Monitoring and analyzing CPU resources
-Monitoring database queries
-Monitoring memory utilization
-Monitoring network traffic
-Running monitoring tools periodically

Analyzing 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
-Analyzing results with Excel
-Interpreting statistical results
-Finding the bottlenecks

Advanced
-Distributed testing
-Extending JMeter with Java, Bean Shell and Javascripts

Other
-TIPs and best practices
-How to get Help?

Workshop and practical sessions

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