Learn JMeter in 1 Day

By Krishna Rungta

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Table Of Content
Chapter 1: What is JMeter? Introduction & Uses

1. What is JMeter? Why it is used?

2. Why JMeter?
3. JMeter Advantages
4. How does JMeter work?
5. Jmeter Version History

Chapter 2: How to Download & Install Apache JMeter in easy steps

1. Operating system Support for JMeter
2. Steps to Install JMeter
3. Start JMeter in GUI Mode
4. How to run JMeter in Non-GUI Mode
5. Additional Packages
6. Use JMeter in Linux

Chapter 3: JMeter Elements: Thread Group, Samplers, Listeners,

Configuration
1. What is Element in JMeter?
2. Thread Group
3. Samplers
4. FTP request:
5. HTTP request:
6. JDBC request:
7. BSF Sampler:
8. Access Log Sampler:
9. SMTP Sampler:
10. Listeners
11. Configuration Elements
12. CSV Data Set Config:
13. HTTP Cookie Manager

Chapter 4: JMeter GUI: Test Plan & Workbench

1. What is a Test Plan?

2. What is WorkBench?
3. How to add Elements?
4. Loading and Saving Elements
5. How to Create JMX file
6. How to Run JMX file
7. How to Configure Elements
8. How to Save a Test Plan
9. Create a Combo Test Plan
10. How to Run Test Plan
11. Test Report

Chapter 5: How to Use JMeter for Performance & Load Testing

1. Create a Performance Test Plan in JMeter
2. Step 1) Add Thread Group
3. Step 2) Adding JMeter elements
4. Step 3) Adding Graph result
5. Step 4) Run Test and get the test result

Chapter 6: Jmeter Timers: Constant, Gaussian Random, Uniform [Example]

1. Constant Timer:
2. Gaussian Random Timer:
3. Uniform Random Timer:
4. BeanShell Timer
 5. BSF Timer
6. JSR223 Timer
7. How to Use Constant Timer
8. Pre-condition:

Chapter 7: How to use Assertions in JMeter (Response Example)

1. What is an Assertion?
2. Types of Assertions
3. Response Assertion
4. Duration Assertion
5. Size Assertion
6. XML Assertion
7. HTML Assertion
8. Steps to use Response Assertion

Chapter 8: Controllers in JMeter: Loop, Simple, Transaction, Module,

Random
1. What is the Logic Controller?
2. Recording Controller:
3. Simple Controller:
4. Loop Controller:
5. Random Controller:
6. Module Controller:
7. Other Important Controllers:
8. Loop Controller Example
9. Step 1) Configuring Thread Group
10. Step 2) Configuring Loop Controller
11. Step 3) Add View Results in Table
12. Step 4) Run your test
Chapter 9: Processor in JMeter: PreProcessor & PostProcessor
1. Pre-processor:
2. Post-processor:
3. Post Processor Example
4. Step 1) Add Thread Group
5. Step 2) Add JMeter elements
6. Step 3) Add Post-Processor Element
7. Step 4) Config the HTTP Request
8. Step 5) Add View Result Tree
9. Step 6) Run Test

Chapter 10: Jmeter Distributed (Remote) Testing: Master Slave

Configuration
1. What is Distributed Testing?
2. Remote Test Example
3. Step 1) System configuration
4. Step 2) Run the test
5. Step 3) Troubleshooting

Chapter 11: HTTP Proxy Server in JMeter: Record Example Script

1. Step 1) Setting the HTTP Proxy server
2. Step 2) Record your activity
3. Step 3) Run your Test Plan
4. Step 4) Save your test result
Chapter 12: Best Practices for your Jmeter Tests

1. Limit the Number of Threads

2. Using a proxy server
3. Using variables
4. Reduce resource requirement
5. Check the JMeter logs
6. Erase the local path from CSV Data Set Config
7. Follow file naming convention
 Chapter 1: What is JMeter?
Introduction & Uses
What is JMeter? Why it is used?
The Apache JMeterTM is pure Java open source software, which was first
developed by Stefano Mazzocchi of the Apache Software Foundation,
designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. You can
use JMeter to analyze and measure the performance of web application or a
variety of services. Performance Testing means testing a web application
against heavy load, multiple and concurrent user traffic. JMeter originally is
used for testing Web Application or FTP application. Nowadays, it is used for
a functional test, database server test etc.

Why JMeter?
Have you ever tested a web server to know how efficiently it works? How
many concurrent users can a web server handle?

Let say that one day, your boss asks you to do performance testing
of www.google.com for 100 users. What would you do?

It's not feasible to arrange 100 people with PC and internet access
simultaneously accessing google.com Think of the infrastructure requirement
when you test for 10000 users (a small number for a site like google). Hence
you need a software tool like JMeter that will simulate real-user behaviors
and performance/load test your site.
JMeter Advantages
JMeter advantages are described as figure below

Open source license: JMeter is totally free, allows developer use the
source code for the development
Friendly GUI: JMeter is extremely easy to use and doesn't take time to
get familiar with it
Platform independent: JMeter is 100% pure Java desktop application. So
it can run on multiple platforms
Full multithreading framework. JMeter allows concurrent and
simultaneous sampling of different functions by a separate thread
group
Visualize Test Result: Test result can be displayed in a different format
such as chart, table, tree and log file
Easy installation: You just copy and run the *.bat file to run JMeter. No
installation needed.
 Highly Extensible: You can write your own tests. JMeter also supports
visualization plugins allow you to extend your testing
Multiple testing strategy: JMeter supports many testing strategies such
as Load Testing, Distributed Testing, and Functional Testing.
Simulation: JMeter can simulate multiple users with concurrent threads,
create a heavy load against web application under test Support multi-
protocol: JMeter does not only support web application testing but also
evaluate database server performance. All basic protocols such as HTTP,
JDBC, LDAP, SOAP, JMS, and FTP are supported by JMeter
Record & Playback - Record the user activity on the browser and
simulate them in a web application using JMeter
Script Test: Jmeter can be integrated with Bean Shell & Selenium for
automated testing.

How does JMeter work?

The basic workflow of JMeter as shown in the figures below

JMeter simulates a group of users sending requests to a target server, and

return statistics information of target server through graphical diagrams
The completed workflow of JMeter as shown in the figure below
Jmeter Version History
Version Description
1 first official release
2.13 Java 6+
3 Java 7+
3.1 Java 7+
3.2 Java 8+
3.3 Java 8
4 Java 8 / 9
 Chapter 2: How to Download & Install
Apache JMeter in easy steps
Operating system Support for JMeter
JMeter is a pure Java application and should run correctly on any system that
has a compatible Java implementation.

Here is the list of an operating system compatible with JMeter

Linux
Windows
Mac OS
Ubuntu

Steps to Install JMeter

Step 1) Install Java

Because JMeter is pure Java desktop application, it requires a fully compliant

JVM 6 or higher. You can download and install the latest version of Java SE
Development Kit. Download Java Platform (JDK)
After installation is finished, you can use the following procedure to check
whether Java JDK is installed successfully in your system

In Window/Linux, go to Terminal
Enter command java -version

If the Java runtime environment is installed successfully, you will see the
output as the figure below

If nothing displays, please re-install Java SE runtime environment

Please see the link for details instructions

https://www.guru99.com/install-java.html

Step 2) Download Jmeter

As of this writing, the latest version of JMeter is Apache JMeter 4.2. You can
download it here But this tutorial demos installation of version 2.9, the
install process remains the same.

Choose the Binaries file (either zip or tgz) to download as shown in the
figure below
Step 3) Installation

Installation of JMeter is extremely easy and simple. You simply unzip the
zip/tar file into the directory where you want JMeter to be installed. There
is no tedious installation screen to deal with! Simply unzip and you are
done!

Once the unzipping is done installation directory structure should look like as
figure below
Given below is the description of the JMeter directories and its importance
JMeter directory contains many files and directory

/bin: Contains JMeter script file for starting JMeter

/docs: JMeter documentation files
/extras: ant related extra files
/lib/: Contains the required Java library for JMeter
/lib/ext: contains the core jar files for JMeter and the protocols
/lib/junit: Junit library used for JMeter
/printable_docs:

Step 4) Launch JMeter

You can start JMeter in 3 modes
GUI Mode
Server Mode
Command Line Mode

Start JMeter in GUI Mode

If you are using Window, just run the file /bin/jmeter.bat to start JMeter in
GUI mode as shown below

The following figure annotates the various components in the JMeter GUI
How to run JMeter in Non-GUI Mode
Start JMeter in Server Mode

Server mode is used for distributed testing. This Testing works as a client-
server model. In this model, JMeter runs on a server computer in server
mode. On a client computer, JMeter runs in GUI mode.

To start the server mode, you run the bat file bin\jmeter-server.bat
as below figure

Start JMeter in command line mode

JMeter in GUI mode consumes much computer memory. For saving the
resource, you may choose to run JMeter without the GUI. To do so, use the
following command options

This is a command line example

$jmeter -n -t testPlan.jmx - l log.jtl -H 127.0.0.1 -P 8000

Additional Packages
Based on your requirement, you will need one or more optional packages
listed below.

Java Compiler

Java Compiler allows developers to build JMeter source code and other
JMeter plugins

SAX XML parser

SAX is the Simple API for XML, originally a Java-only API. You can use SAX
XML parser as an alternative to XML parser in JMeter

Email Support

JMeter has extensive Email capabilities. It can send email based on test
results and has a POP3(S)/IMAP(S) sampler. It also has an SMTP sampler.
 JDBC driver

If you want to test database server, you have to install JDBC driver

Use JMeter in Linux

Using JMeter in Linux is the same as in Window; you simply run the
following shell script.
Run the script file jmeter (This file has no extension)- run JMeter (in
GUI mode by default).
Run the script file jmeter-server - start JMeter in server mode (calls
JMeter script with appropriate parameters)
jmeter.sh - very basic JMeter script with no JVM options specified.
mirror-server.sh - runs the JMeter Mirror Server in non-GUI mode
shutdown.sh - Run the Shutdown client to stop a non-GUI instance
gracefully
stoptest.sh - Run the Shutdown client to stop a non-GUI instance
abruptly