Performance Testing with

JMeter
Gentle Introduction to writing,
running and maintaining Test
Scripts

JMeter concepts

Test Plan
Thread Group (Test Script)
Thread (Users)
Configuration (input values, usernames/IDs, etc)
Sampler (Requests, Clicks, Debugging, etc)
Assertion (Tests for validity or pass/fail of script)
Listener (Reports, execution summary, etc)
Controller (Throughput, Filter % app usage, etc)
Timer (Scheduling, delays, simulate user reactiontime, etc)

Test Plan
Project/feature-specific

Thread Group
Application/webpage functionalityspecific

Thread
IMPORTANT Thread = User

Sampler
Event(s) to perform and observe

Assertion
What to check for each Test
View Results Tree

Aggregate Report (real-time metrics)

Listener
Type(s) of Monitoring to do during
Tests

Controller
Any custom code to run or values to
set before finishing each Test script

Timer
When to run each test
Should there be a delay in between
or should they all run at the same
time?
Should it simulate a real human user
clicking, reading/waiting then clicking
again, etc or flow through quickly
like a robot

DEMO
Well run a few sample Performance
Tests against the version of the
website delivered so far

Performance Metrics
Throughput = Requests/sec

Application Optimizations
Databases often the choke point for
application performance

JMeter properties
Launch param values from command-line to
customize, for example HTTP Request Default

Useful for Jenkins integration to specific

Environment Host (i.e. q1.alc.ca or
i1.alc.ca)
WebDriver can launch real instance of
Firefox/Chrome as smoke-test
Normal JMeter does not actually open a browser,
makes request from its own app

Selenium
Front-end testing & automation tool
How to record your front-end
interactions and import them into
Jmeter, two options:
Selenium IDE
BlazeMeter

JMeter Shortcuts
CTRL+E = Clear all Test Results from
past runs
CTRL+SHIFT+E = Clear current Test
Results
CTRL+T = Toggle an item of Test
Plan on or of

Questions?
I have a few for you:
What types of input data would you need to
Performance Test your respective business
units?
What should happen to your business unit(s)
when the application fails and in what cases
would that be related to usage/performance?
What kind of performance are you expecting?
Any minimum level that would prevent launch?