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Performance Testing with Apache JMeter

Find out how a system behaves under load before its users do

A short classroom course in load testing. The modules follow the Apache JMeter user manual: building a test plan and its elements, web and advanced web test plans, database and web-service test plans, listeners, remote testing, the dashboard report, real-time results and best practices. This course prepares for no exam.

8Modules
IntermediateLevel
6 weeksDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL

What you will be able to do

Design a load test that reflects real usage
Build test plans for web pages, APIs and databases
Run a test from several machines
Read response times, throughput and error rates from a report
Report a performance problem with the evidence for it

Course outline

01
Getting started with JMeter
02
Building a test plan; elements of a test plan
03
Building a web test plan
04
Building an advanced web test plan
05
Database and web-service test plans
06
Listeners and the dashboard report
07
Remote testing and real-time results
08
Best practices; load-testing a real web application

Tools you will use

Apache JMeterJavaHTTPGrafana

What you need

Basic software testing knowledge
Understanding of how web applications and HTTP work

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