Performance testing plan:

Performance testing is used for user load or data volume load and it measure the performance
associated with website and the system

Performance testing tools:

There are many tools which are use for ttesting purpose , some of them are commercial and
some of them are open source tool

Commercial tools Open source tool

Load Runner Open STA
Silk Performer JMeter
Rational Performance Tester Grinder
WebLoad Basic Edition

jMeter:

jMeter is an open source of performance testing and can easily ues because JMeter is written in Java
language and work as a application . Installation of JMeter is very easy. jMeter supports HTTP , HTTPS
,FTP ,SOAP, POP3 etc. which enable jMeter to test different websites.

Now we can illustrates, how we can test performance by using jMeter

 Add a thread group to the test plan

 Add HTTP request defaults to the thread group

 Configure the group with website setting

 Add the HTTP request

 Start the HTTP proxy server
 Configure the browser to the listen on HTTP proxy server port
 Open the browser
 Open the application URL and monitor the events
 Stop HTTP proxy server
 View summary report

 Identify the issues of website

 Capture the session IDs using regular repressions
 Clear summary report
 Run test and observe the result