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Performance Testing with JMeter 3

You're reading from Performance Testing with JMeter 3 Enhance the performance of your web application

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787285774

Length 166 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

JMeter

Concepts

Application Testing

Author (1):

Erinle

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Performance Testing Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Recording Your First Test

3. Submitting Forms

4. Managing Sessions

5. Monitoring Tests in Real-Time

6. Distributed Testing

7. Helpful Tips - Part 1

8. Helpful Tips - Part 2

Index

Putting it all together

The next step is to instruct JMeter to use InfluxDB as a backing store by writing our test plan metrics to the excilys database we created earlier. This will allow the results of our test plan to be available for consumption in real time by the Grafana Web UI.

To see our results, we will also need to configure at least one dashboard in Grafana. A Grafana dashboard consists of one or more panels used to visualize data in different formats. Configuring a Grafana dashboard, though simple, goes beyond the scope of this book. For our purposes, we will be leveraging a community dashboard provided by NovaTec-APM. It meets our needs and is available at https://grafana.com/dashboards/1152.

Importing the Grafana dashboard

To use the community dashboard, we will need to import it. To do that, perform the following:

Open Grafana Web UI by pointing your browser to http://localhost:3000.
Log in with the following credentials:
- Username: admin
- Password: admin
Click on the Grafana icon in...

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Authors (1)

Erinle

Erinle

● Proficient Java developer with more than 11 years experience ● Skilled at defining the architecture for stand-alone, distributed, two tier, three tier or multi tier applications ● Productive and creative both as a software developer and analyst ● Extensive practical hands-on experience in developing, designing, maintaining and recapturing object oriented applications ● Effective working alone or as a cooperative team member ● Adapting new technologies and developments in creating quality products for customers Bayo Erinle is a senior software engineer with over nine years' experience in designing, developing, testing, and architecting software. He has worked in various spectrums of the IT field, including government, finance, and health care. As a result, he has been involved in the planning, development, implementation, integration, and testing of numerous applications, including multi-tiered, standalone, distributed, and cloud-based applications. He is always intrigued by new technology and enjoys learning new things. He currently resides in Maryland, US, and when he is not hacking away at some new technology, he enjoys spending time with his wife Nimota and their three children, Mayowa, Durotimi, and Fisayo.

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