Performance Testing Course with JMeter and Blazemeter

Name: Performance Testing Course with JMeter and Blazemeter
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You will learn the basics of performance testing using today’s most popular tools while following a widely-used method

Created byFederico Toledo, Carmen Rivas

Last updated 12/2023

English

What you'll learn

Understand the basics of Performance testing
Automate scripts and run tests with JMeter
Create and run load tests with BlazeMeter

Course content

4 sections • 37 lectures • 1h 57m total length

What is performance testing about?1:38
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Welcome!1:19
Factory Acceptance Testing of Pedestrian Bridge: 8-Ton Load Test5:16
Engineers perform a factory acceptance 8-ton load test on a 46-meter Madi aluminum pedestrian bridge, validating weight distribution, deflection under load, and joint integrity for offshore platform conditions.
How can JMeter help us with performance testing?1:47
Explore how JMeter supports performance testing by simulating hundreds of user actions on an e-commerce web app, recording scripts, and scaling load to reveal system limits.
Basic concepts on automation and load simulation1:53
Introduction to HTTP7:39
If there is a form with the following HTML code:
Debugging with Fiddler4:29
Analyze application traffic with Fiddler by capturing HTTP requests and responses, inspecting headers, cookies, and payloads, and correlating elements for robust assertions.
First look at JMeter's interface2:52
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Main building blocks3:36
Explore JMeter's main building blocks by constructing a script with thread groups, HTTP requests, controllers, preprocessors, post-processors, timers, assertions, and listeners to test and analyze responses.
Recording a Script with JMeter2:16
Record a script with JMeter by configuring the HTTP test script recorder and proxy, using Opencart to capture traffic and save the recording.
Analyzing the Script2:54
Analyze a recorded jmeter script for Opencart, identify the main http get request, headers, and embedded resources, and simplify by disabling embedded resources and organizing the script.

Want a cookie?2:11
Http Cookies - A different view0:49
Explore a different view on http cookies in a video about brain and brain drain.
Http Cookie Manager3:17
Learn to manage cookies in jmeter with the http cookie manager, store cookies per thread, apply the default cookie policy, and handle ipv6 with hc4.
Assertions in JMeter4:11
Learn how to use assertions in JMeter, including response, size, and duration checks, to validate server responses and detect errors; follow an example with text matching and failure indicators.
How do we select good assertions?2:53
Task - Building a simple Script0:27
User defined variables in JMeter4:54
Define and use user defined variables in jmeter, demonstrated by recording a search with the jmeter recorder, replacing parameters, and validating requests with assertions.
Introduction to Regular Expressions1:25
Regular Expression Extractor4:12
Use regular expressions in JMeter and BlazeMeter to extract a product ID from server responses, then verify with Fiddler and configure a regex extractor in post-processors.
Variable correlation in JMeter5:37
Learn variable correlation in JMeter by extracting product IDs with regular expressions, replacing them in subsequent requests, and validating responses with assertions.
Task - Increased complexity0:22

Data parameterization2:21
Data parametrization and CSV files in JMeter5:23
Leverage JMeter's csv data set config to read lines from a file, parameterizing per-user data (name, last name, email) for guest checkout and managing end-of-file and sharing mode.
Introduction to Controllers1:25
Some important Controllers5:30
Explore the most used JMeter controllers—simple, recording, once only, transaction, if, loop, while, and for each—and how they organize test flows and timing.
Writing more realistic scripts - working with timers3:19
Learn how to add realism to JMeter scripts by using timers, including constant, uniform, and Poisson random timers, with test actions between steps.
Test scenarios4:11
Threads, iterations and ramp up2:47
Configure a JMeter test scenario with five virtual users, ramp-up, and three iterations, using a CSV for parameterized searches to load Opencart site and add items to the cart.
Baselines and increasing scenarios2:03
Execution plan
VolksWagen Crash test1:06
Many other areas and industries also run tests, taking the product to the limit to see when it breaks. In this example we can see the crash tests performed to cars in order to ensure safe design standards.
Running a test scenario with JMeter3:36
Run a complete JMeter test scenario by validating http request defaults, headers, assertions, cookies, and CSV parameterization; analyze the aggregate report, response times, and regex-extracted product IDs.

About BlazeMeter2:51
Creating and configuring a basic load test3:31
Configure and run a basic load test in Blazemeter by uploading JMeter scripts and CSV data. Set load scenarios, locations, and concurrency for cloud-based testing.
Advanced configurations and multitests5:10
Configure advanced options in Blazemeter, including thresholds, IP records, and network emulation, and set up multi tests for distributed load with synchronized start.
Running a test and analyzing results7:27
Run a Blazemeter test with 50 users and 25-second ramp-up, then analyze reports for throughput, errors, and response times, and review timelines, load, and the executive summary for sharing.
BONUS LECTURE: Must-Have Resources0:28

Requirements

There are no requirements, we will provide the links to download the tools throughout the course

Description

In order to optimize a web or mobile application, or to assist with the sizing of the infrastructure required for it to function properly, we need to prepare and execute load simulations using the proper tools.

That’s what performance testing is about. In this course you will learn the basics of performance testing using today’s most popular tools while following a widely-used methodology. For this aim, we use JMeter (the most popular open-source load simulation tool) and BlazeMeter (the most used cloud-based load simulation solution) together.

In this course, you will start from the very beginning, learning the basics and by the end, you will be able to come up with a load execution, simulating concurrent users from different countries, who access with different bandwidths, with different test data, verifying the response times and resource consumption of a real e-commerce application (a very common, real-world example of the use of a load test).

✓ Introduction to Performance Testing Concepts
✓ Automation and preparation of load tests in JMeter
✓ Execution in BlazeMeter

The main concepts of the course are taught via a series of videos and texts. Most of the videos include demos and examples using the tools. A highly practical course, all the lessons require the student to try the tools and accomplish challenges and tasks.

Who this course is for:

Testers and developers who want to learn how to automate scripts with JMeter

Performance Testing Course with JMeter and Blazemeter

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Course content

Module 1- Introduction to Performance Testing11 lectures • 36min

Module 2- JMeter Basics11 lectures • 30min

Module 3- JMeter advanced10 lectures • 32min

Module 4 - Performance Testing from the Cloud5 lectures • 19min

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