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Master Apache JMeter - From Load Testing to DevOps

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Product type Book

Published in Aug 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781839217647

Pages 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

Application Testing

Authors (3):

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues

Bruno Demion (Milamber)

Philippe Mouawad

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

About the Book

1. Quick Start with JMeter

2. JMeter Overview

3. Designing a Test Case

4. Important Concepts in JMeter

5. Preparing the Test Environment (Injectors and Tested Systems)

6. Being Productive with JMeter

7. Load Testing a Website

8. Load Testing Web Services

9. Load Testing a Database Server

10. Load Testing Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) via JMS

11. Performing a Load Test

12. Visualizing and Analyzing the Load Testing Results

13. Integration of JMeter in the DevOps Tool Chain

A Few Concepts

Nowadays, more and more applications use web services (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service) for several reasons:

To adapt to new constraints
To interface mobile applications
To interface heterogeneous systems in distributed environments
To provide services to partners
To avoid tying interfaces to a particular library in a specific language, and so on

This service is frequently used, particularly with the success of microservice architectures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices). Under the term "web services," several technologies exist, such as WS-\* web services and REST web services. Let's look in more detail at these two technologies.

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Web Services

To meet certain needs (such as a lower complexity of implementation, reducing the volume of data exchanged and reducing the parsing cost, particularly for mobile applications, and more), REST web services appeared. REST web services are based...

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Authors (3)

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues has been an expert in the field of application performance for more than 10 years. Antonio has significant experience working with load testing tools like JMeter and LoadRunner. He is currently a committer and a PMC member of the JMeter project within the Apache Software Foundation.

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Bruno Demion (Milamber)

Bruno Demion, better known as Milamber, is a French computer scientist. Since December 2003, he has been working with JMeter to perform load tests in various missions and training courses. He contributes to the JMeter project, in particular on the translation into French of the graphical interface, corrections of anomalies as well as some behaviors (proxy HTTPS, new results tree, icon bar, and so on). He is currently a committer, PMC member and the PMC Chair of the Apache JMeter project within the Apache Software Foundation.

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Philippe Mouawad

Philippe Mouawad is a technical expert and architect in J2E and web environments in the company Ubik-Ingenierie. He has been using JMeter since 2009. He contributes to the JMeter-Plugins (Redis DataSet, Graphs Generator Listener, and various patches) project. He is currently a committer and a PMC member of the JMeter project within the Apache Software Foundation. He is also a lead developer of the Ubik Load Pack solution.

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