Introduction in load testing with JMETER

Course Curriculum

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Chapter 1: Load Testing and JMETER basic concepts

Lecture 1: JMETER introduction

Lecture 2: Load Testing introduction

Chapter 2: Web Technologies

Lecture 1: Browser Request/Server Response, GET & POST requests

Lecture 2: Cookies basics

Lecture 3: View and edit cookies

Lecture 4: Browser Cache

Lecture 5: Web Proxy (Fiddler2)

Chapter 3: XML and XPATH

Lecture 1: XML

Lecture 2: XPATH

Lecture 3: Find web elements using Firebug and Firepath

Chapter 4: Define user scenarios for the site

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Identify the user scenarios

Lecture 3: Add details to the user scenarios

Lecture 4: Prioritize the user scenarios

Chapter 5: Convert the user scenarios in JMETER scripts

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Add concurrent users and browser types to scripts

Lecture 3: Add delays between requests

Lecture 4: Add validations and define parameters for the JMETER scripts

Chapter 6: Implement the JMETER scripts

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: JMETER components

Lecture 3: Execution order of JMETER components

Lecture 4: Implement the 1st script in JMETER – Browse the results pages

Lecture 5: Implement the 2nd script – Change sort order on results page

Lecture 6: Implement the 3rd script – Change number of items on results page

Lecture 7: Implement the 5th script – Open the details page

Lecture 8: Debug JMETER scripts

Chapter 7: Run the load test and analyze its results

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Set up the server performance monitoring

Lecture 3: Run the load test

Lecture 4: Analyze the load test results

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Final Notes

Chapter 9: Appendix 1 – JMETER Components Examples

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: HTTP Requests, Assertions, Listeners, CSV Data Set Config

Lecture 3: XPATH Assertions

Lecture 4: XPATH Extractor, Random Variable

Lecture 5: Regular Expression Extractor, Bean Shell Post Processor

Lecture 6: ForEach Controller

Lecture 7: BeanShell Pre-Processor And Post-Processor

Lecture 8: JMETER cache manager

Lecture 9: HTTP Cookie Manager and Cookie Injection

Lecture 10: Simulate the network bandwidth with JMETER properties

Chapter 10: Section 10 – Exercises

Lecture 1: Modify the domain of the HTTP request dynamically

Lecture 2: Verify that the correct page data is returned