Apache Jmeter

Product Description

Learn to load-test your website, test its functional behaviour, and measure its performance by implementing the features of JMeter. The ideal readers or users of this book are experienced or novice testers who have been testing manually and now would like to automate their tests. Those testers who are already automating their testing using other tools or testing software may also want to use this book as they look for alternatives. This book would also be a good point for test Managers/Leaders to start doing research on the test automation tool that may best suit their testing needs and of course, their budget. JMeter's target audience is the testing community, which is generally not the hangout of developers or technical people. Almost anything one would like to do in HTTP testing will be supported by JMeter without requiring any programming. The user need not have much technical knowledge to work with JMeter. It has a simple-to-use and intuitive drag-and-drop style GUI that helps any non-technical user to get started.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #40708 in Books
* Published on: 2008-06-30
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 140 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Since graduating in 1998, from California State University in Computer Science, Emily H. Halili has taken numerous roles in the IT/Software industry—namely as Software Engineer, Network Engineer, Lecturer, and Trainer. Currently a QA Engineer in CEO Consultancy-Malaysia with great passion for testing, she has two years of experience in software testing and managing QA activities. She is an experienced manual tester and has practical knowledge of various open-source automation tools and framework, including JMeter, Selenium, JProfiler, Badboy, Sahi, Watij and many more.
Customer Reviews

packed with information that could help any developer5
Packt Publishing usually publishes big books especially on introduction to certain applications and processes. But this book is surprisingly small as it only consists of 120 pages of detailed instructions regarding JMeter. This should cause a concern for developers who are already familiar with different Packt books.

But as the old adage says, "don't just the book by its cover". You'll be surprised what you'll read in this book. It's a small book yet it's a book packed with information that could help any developer who wants to understand JMeter

To properly gauge the effectiveness of the book, we should consider the two types of audiences of this book - the beginners or those who are not familiar with JMeter and the advanced user.

The beginners will undoubtedly find this book very useful. It will slowly introduce JMeter to the user and each component is discussed. Those who are starting in JMeter should be able to know the basic requirements, functions and a little brush on the advanced functions which could be used if the basics are mastered.

But that doesn't mean this book is not good for advanced users of JMeter. Packt is smart enough to make this book as short as possible so that it could become a handy reference book for advanced users. If Packt had made this into a 500-page giant like most of their books, it can't really be appealing to advanced users. Advanced users will enjoy this book as reference book to help them maintain their skills in JMeter.

The layout of information regarding JMeter is impressive. The background of JMeter and automated testing is properly covered to explain in detail if the testing application is worth the hassle. The basic functions are clearly discussed and the reasoning behind a specific command is clearly explained.

Apache JMeter from Packt Publishers is a small book with intensive information. From Chapter 1 to its Summary, the book is continuously educating their readers - why JMeter and how to properly use the application.

A very shallow entry-level guide2
This book provides a very shallow entry-level review of Apache JMeter. That is it. There is no in-detail discussion of any of the more advanced features and possibilities of JMeter. If you need an introduction to Apache JMeter this might be your book, however for this price I expected quite a bit more.

Very ordinary 1
Book is very basic and does not have enough real life scenarios.Its good for a newbie.