What this book covers

Chapter 1, Performance Testing Fundamentals, covers the fundamentals of performance testing and the installation and configuration of JMeter.

Chapter 2, Recording Your First Test, dives into recording your first JMeter test script and covers the anatomy of a JMeter test script.

Chapter 3, Submitting Forms, explores form submission in detail. It includes handling various HTML form elements (checkboxes, radio, file uploads and downloads, and so on), JSON data, and XML.

Chapter 4, Managing Sessions, explains session management, including cookies and URL rewriting.

Chapter 5, Monitoring Tests in Real-Time, focuses on active monitoring and analysis of test execution results, as well as new components in JMeter 3 that make it possible.

Chapter 6, Distributed Testing, takes an in-depth look at leveraging cloud for performance testing. We dive into tools such as Vagrant and AWS, and explore the existing cloud-testing platforms BlazeMeter and Flood.io.

Chapter 7, Helpful Tips - Part 1, provides you with helpful techniques and tips for getting the most out of JMeter.

Chapter 8, Helpful Tips - Part 2, further provides you with more helpful techniques and tips continued from Chapter 7, Helpful Tips - Part 1.