| This book introduces you to JMeter (version 2.3) and test automation, providing a step-by-step guide to testing with JMeter. You will learn how to measure the performance of a website using JMeter.
What you will learn from this book:
- Why automating tests is so useful, and how it will help you to improve performance of your web sites & applications;
- Installing, setting up the environment, and running JMeter;
- Planning automated tests to provide a thorough insight into application performance, bottle necks, and load bearing capabilities;
- Building a test plan to test your websites;
- Test web, database, FTP servers and more - so you can get a detailed insight into which parts of your application are holding up performance;
- Build more complex test elements using regular expressions and functions;
- Capture, process, and analyse test results.
Who this book is written for
The ideal readers or users of this book are experienced or novice testers who have been testing manually and now would like to automate their tests. Those testers who are already automating their testing using other tools or testing software may also want to use this book as they look for alternatives. This book would also be a good point for test Managers/Leaders to start doing research on the test automation tool that may best suit their testing needs and of course, their budget. The user need not have much technical knowledge to work with JMeter. It has a simple-to-use and intuitive drag-and-drop style GUI that helps any non-technical user to get started. | |
