Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 -- Table of Contents -- Performance Testing with JMeter 2.9 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Performance Testing Fundamentals -- The incident -- The aftermath -- Performance testing -- Performance testing and tuning -- Baselines -- Load and stress testing -- JMeter to the rescue -- Up and running with JMeter -- Installation -- Installing Java JDK -- Setting JAVA_HOME -- On Windows -- On Unix -- Running JMeter -- Command-line options -- JMeter's Classpath -- Configuring the proxy server -- Running in non-GUI mode -- Running in server mode -- Overriding properties -- Tracking errors during test execution -- Configuring JMeter -- Summary -- 2. Recording Your First Test -- Configuring the JMeter HTTP proxy server -- Setting up your browser to use the proxy server -- Using a browser extension -- Changing the system settings -- Running your first recorded scenario -- Anatomy of a JMeter test -- Test Plan -- Thread Groups -- Controllers -- Samplers -- Logic controllers -- Test fragments -- Listeners -- Timers -- Assertions -- Configuration elements -- Pre-processor and post-processor elements -- Summary -- 3. Submitting Forms -- Capturing simple forms -- Handling checkboxes -- Handling radio buttons -- Handling file uploads -- Handling file downloads -- Posting JSON data -- Reading JSON data -- Using the BSF PostProcessor -- Handling the XML response -- Summary -- 4. Managing Sessions.

Managing sessions with cookies -- Managing sessions with URL rewriting -- Summary -- 5. Resource Monitoring -- Basic server monitoring -- Setting up Apache Tomcat Server -- Configuring Tomcat users -- Setting up a monitor controller in JMeter -- Monitoring the server with a JMeter plugin -- Installing the plugins -- Adding monitor listeners to the test plan -- Summary -- 6. Distributed Testing -- Remote testing with JMeter -- Configuring JMeter slave nodes -- Configuring one slave per machine -- Configuring the master node to be tested against one slave per machine -- Configuring multiple slave nodes on a single box -- Configuring the master node to be tested against multiple slave nodes on a single box -- Leveraging the cloud for distributed testing -- Obtaining your access key, secret key, and key pair -- Launching an AWS instance -- Executing the test plan -- Viewing the results from the virtual machines -- Summary -- 7. Helpful Tips -- JMeter properties and variables -- JMeter functions -- The Regular Expression tester -- The Debug sampler -- Using timers in your test plan -- The Constant timer -- The Gaussian random timer -- The Uniform random timer -- The Constant throughput timer -- The Synchronizing timer -- The Poisson random timer -- The JDBC Request sampler -- Setting up an H2 database -- Configuring a JDBC Connection Configuration component -- Adding a JDBC Request sampler -- A Dummy sampler -- The JSON Path Extractor element -- Handling RESTful web services -- Summary -- Index.