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JMeter: Performance and Load Testing

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Michael Smith

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