What this book covers

Chapter 1, JMeter Fundamentals, covers fundamental and intermediate skills to help you use JMeter efficiently.

Chapter 2, Handling Responses, details how to handle various server and application responses.

Chapter 3, Building Robust Test Plans with Controllers, covers five useful and often encountered JMeter controllers and how to apply them to your use cases.

Chapter 4, Testing Services, details how to test web services and supporting application resources with JMeter.

Chapter 5, Diving into Distributed Testing, takes an in-depth look at leveraging the Cloud for performance testing. We cover three Cloud providers and see how to roll our own when the need arises.

Chapter 6, Extending JMeter, covers how to extend JMeter with plugins. We also detail how to write your own JMeter plugin.

Chapter 7, Building, Debugging, and Analyzing the Results of Test Plans, discusses some useful components in JMeter and how to leverage them, as well as how to build realistic, robust, and maintainable scripts.

Chapter 8, Beyond the Basics, covers integrating JMeter into continuous delivery workflows, scaling JMeter, and many other advanced tips and pointers.

Appendix, Installing the Supporting Software Needed for This Book, covers how to install the supporting software and how to proceed with the recipes in the chapters.