JMeter – Core2Advanced - Day Wise Topics

Note: -
● Topics may NOT match with the exact Day. These topics are in sequence and common to all
Batches.
BASICS
Day1:
● Basics of computer

● Keyboard shortcuts

● Remove System & Browser history

● Introduction to Software Development & Software Testing

● Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Phases

● Software Testing Life cycle (STLC) & Phases

● Types of Software Testing

● Functional Testing & Non-Functional Testing

● Tools Used in Functional & Non-Functional Testing

● Introduction to Performance Testing & JMeter

● Manual, Automation, Performance & Security Testing

● SDLC Methodologies
○ Waterfall model
○ V-Model
○ Agile Model – Jira Board & Confluence Real Time Explanation
● Terms used in Software Testing: - Defect, Bug, Bottlenecks, Vulnerabilities

● Defect/Bug Life Cycle

○ Defect life cycle phases
○ What is priority?
■ P1, P2, P3, P4
○ What is Severity?
■ S1, S2, S3, S4
Day2:
● Basics of Performance Testing:
○ Performance Testing technical definition
○ Performance testing V/S engineering?
 ○ Why Performance Testing
● Need for Performance Testing
○ Symptoms of Application Slowness
○ Examples of Loss occurred by many Brands due to poor Application performance
○ Objectives of Performance Testing
○ Why performance testing?
○ Purpose of Performance Testing
○ Which application should we performance test?
○ Need for Performance Testing Tools
○ Real Users & Virtual Users (or VUsers)
○ What Performance Testing Tools Do?
○ When Performance Testing can be Done?
○ Tools used in performance testing?
○ Why to Learn JMeter?
○ RFI & RFP
○ HTTP Request response Structure
○ What is POD? And what is DC?
○ Horizontal VS Vertical scaling
○ Load Balancer
○ Performance Testing Terminologies
○ Performance Testing Prerequisites
○ Types of Performance Tests
○ Benchmark vs Baseline testing
MODULE – 1
Note: All the below concepts will be explained with real time documents
Day3:
● Proof of concept (POC)

● Statement of work (SOW)

● Performance Testing environment setup

Day4:
● Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)
○ Competitor tool
○ General
○ Architectural
○ Business
● Entry & Exit Criteria
Day5:
● Test Strategy

● Test Plan
MODULE - 2
Day6:
 ● JMeter Introduction, History, Versions, Protocols Supported & Its Features

● Which application should we performance test?

● Why did performance tools come into the picture?

● Understanding JMeter is Not a Browser

● How a Performance Testing Tool like JMeter Works?

● Need of Java Installation for JMeter

● Java (JDK & JRE) Installation

● Commands to Verify JDK & JRE Installation

● Which Java is Best to Use for JMeter?

● Java Environment/ System Variable (or Home Path) Setup

● How to Change Java in Use if multiple versions of Java is Installed in System?

● Prerequisites to use JMeter

● JMeter Download & Launching on Windows OS

● JMeter 2 Launching Modes

● Importance of Launching JMeter from CLI or Non-GUI

● JMeter Directory Structure

● JMeter Application GUI/IDE Walkthrough

● JMeter Terminology

● Some other Points related to JMeter

● JMeter Download & Launching on MAC OS

● JMeter Download & Launching on Linux/ Unix/ Ubuntu OS

Day7:
● Core Concepts of Performance Testing:

● Servers & Its Types (web, App, DB)

● Protocol & Its Examples

 ● Performance Testing Life Cycle in JMeter

● Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Suite, Transactions, Recording, Enhancement, & Debugging

● Web protocol types

● URL Structure

● HTTP(s) Protocol: - Request, Response, Headers, Request Methods, & Response Codes

● Browser Developer Tool (F12), HTTP/HTML Requests, Embedded Resources

● Request, Response & Headers

● Types of HTTP Request Methods & CRUD Operations: - GET, POST, PUT & DELETE
Day8:
● Transaction (or User Action)

● Hits, Requests, Transactions, & Their Counts in Per Unit Time

● Cache, Cookies & User Session

● Server-Side & Client Side (or UI) Performance Testing

● Client-Server Application Architecture (1-Tier, 2-Tier, 3-Tier & N-Tier)

● Application Layers & Its Types (PL, BLL & DML)

● Web Server, App Server & DB Server & Their Functionality

● Web server, app server and DB server setup

● Thin Client & Thick (or Fat) Client Applications

● 2-Tier and 3-Tier Difference

● Why Application become Slow?

● Importance of Knowing the Application Architecture in Performance Testing

Day9:
● Terminologies in JMeter with respect to Performance Testing

● JMeter’s 12 Major Elements (Or Components)

● Recording in JMeter, & Port & Proxy Server Setup

 ● Understanding Transaction, Request, Response, Headers, Request Methods, Response
Codes, Protocol, URL, Port, Path, etc. in JMeter
● Different Views of Response in JMeter

● Transaction Controller, Transactions & Respective Requests, & Their view in View Results
Tree
● Saving Recording Logs to a File & Use of Brushes

● Irrelevant Requests & Embedded Resources & Why to Filter Them?

● Port & Proxy Server Setup & Recording from Different Browsers

● How to Filter Irrelevant Requests & Embedded Resources?

● “Recording” Template of JMeter & Its Use

● What to Keep & Not to Keep?

● HTTP & HTTP(s)

● JMeter Certificate Installation in Different Browsers, Certificate Re-Generation, Domain

Based Certificate Generation, & Steps for Certificate Re-Installation
● Use of Recording Controller in JMeter & Its uniqueness

● Use of Transaction Controller in JMeter & Its uniqueness

Day-10:
● JMeter 3rd Launching Mode, i.e. Proxy Mode

● Property Display (Non-Test) Element

● HTTP(s) Test Script Recorder Element, Its Attributes, & Its Best Practices Settings

● Best Practices for Recording in JMeter

● Why to record in Incognito mode Or with Cookies & Cache cleared in normal mode of
Browser?
● Set of Approaches when Recording is Not Happening in JMeter

● Walk-through of JMeter’s Directory: - Various Files & Folders

● How to Open a JMX file by Double Clicking It?

● JMeter’s Properties Files

 ● Undo, Redo, & Backup Features in JMeter

● Increasing View Results Tree’s Line Limitation

● Increasing JMeter Certificate’s Expiry Time

● JMeter Plugin Manager, Plugin Installation & Uninstallation by 2 Ways

● Scenarios Identification & Documentation for Performance Testing of a Web Application

(HTTP(s) Protocol)
Day-11:
● End to End Recording & Script Enhancement with Best Practices for above Scenario (Product
Booking)
● Dynamic Values, Their Types, Importance & Functioning, & How & Why They Occur?

● Authorization/ Authentication Tokens (or Values) Examples

● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Where Dynamic Values May Occur in the Script?

● How to Identify Dynamic Values?

● Why & How to Handle Dynamic Values?

● Correlation & Parameterization

● Use of Regular Expression Extractor

● Use of Debug Sampler

Day-12
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Correlation & Parameterization (continued)

Day-13
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Correlation & Parameterization (continued)

● Redirection Concept (301, 302, 303, 304), etc.

Day-14
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)
 ● Correlation & Parameterization (continued)

● E.g. of Extracting a Value with Left Boundary but No Right Boundary

● Extracting Value from Response Header

● Use of Dummy Sampler

● Regular Expression Extractor’s Attribute: - Default Value, Field to Check & Apply To

● HTTP Cookie Manager

● HTTP Cache Manager

● HTTP Protocol is Stateless Protocol

● How do we make JMeter behave like a Real Browser? Ans: - 5 Settings

● Correlating Recording Log & Replay Log for a Request in case of any Failure
Day-15
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Test Data Preparation & Use of CSV Data Set Config Element with my SQL

● Making Script more Realistic, Modular, Dynamic & Re-Usable

● Correlation & Parameterization (continued)

● Regular Expression Extractor’s Attribute: - Match No.

Day-16
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Correlation & Parameterization (continued)

● Test Data Preparation (continued)

● __Random() function

● __RandomDate() function

● __RandomString() function
Day-17
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Adding Response Assertion with Best Practices

 ● Response Assertion & Its Attributes
Day-18
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Adding Response Assertion with Best Practices (continued)

● Response Assertion & Its Attributes (continued)

● Think Time, Custom Think Time & Pacing in JMeter

● Use of User Defined Variable Element

Day-19
● JMeter Script Enhancement with Best Practices (continued)

● Think Time, Custom Think Time & Pacing in JMeter (continued)

● Error Handling using Result Status Action Handler element in JMeter

● Test Script Stabilisation

● Thread Group’s Attributes: - Users, RampUp, RampDown, Loop Count, Duration, Delay,
etc.
● Deleting Or Disabling All Listeners & Unnecessary Elements

● Validate option

● Start No Pauses option

Day-20
● End to End Recording & Script Enhancement with Best Practices for another Scenario (User
Registration)
Day-21
● End to End Recording & Script Enhancement with Best Practices for another Scenario (User
Registration) (continued)
● __Random() function

● __RandomString() function

● End to End Recording & Script Enhancement with Best Practices for 3rd Scenario (Login)

● Use of Aggregate Report Listeners

 ● TimeStamp (or EpochTime) & Its Handling in JMeter

● __time() & __timeShift() function

● How to Generate a Never Repeating Random Number Or a Unique Number Or a Unique

String in JMeter?
Day-22
● Regular Expression in JMeter: -

● Meta Characters in Regular Expression

● Writing a Regular Expression

● What is (.+?) & Why do we Use It?

● Regular Expression Extractor & Its Attributes

Day-23
● Regular Expression in JMeter (continued)

● Regular Expression Extractor & Its Attributes (continued)

● Dynamic Values Extraction in JMeter with Real Time Use Cases Examples: -

● The General Expression

● E.g. of Multiple Values Extraction by Ignoring Middle Values

● E.g. of Escape Character

● E.g. of Extracting a Value in Newline

● E.g. of Extracting a Value with Left Boundary but No Right Boundary

Day-24
● Realtime Use Cases Examples of Dynamic Values Extraction in JMeter (continued): -

● E.g. of Extracting a Value with both Varying Left & Right Boundary

● E.g. of Extracting the Single Value in Response with No Left & No Right Boundary

● E.g. of Extracting Complete Response

● E.g. of Extracting Response (Status) Code

● E.g. of Extracting Response Message

 ● E.g. of Extracting a Value from Response Header

● E.g. of Extracting Complete Headers

● E.g. of Picking Value Sequentially (Or in a Pattern) by Each User

● E.g. of Capturing Last Dynamic Value

● __V() function
Day-25
● CSV Data Set Config & Random CSV Data Set Config

● Boundary, JSON, XPath & CSS Extractors

● Duration, Size & other Assertions

MODULE - 3
Day-26
● Test Execution with Best Practices Or Best Practices for Load Testing in JMeter: - Settings in
Script, in “user. Properties” file & Heap Size
● JMeter Heap Size (or Java Memory)

● How & Why to Increase JMeter’s Heap Size?

● Understanding Impacts of Heap Size in functioning of JMeter

● How much Memory can be increased?

● Factors affecting User Load generation by JMeter from a Single System

● How much User Load can JMeter generate from a Single System & How to find that value?

● Use of J-Visual VM to find memory consumption by JMeter

Day-27
● Test Execution & JTL file Generation from Non-GUI Mode

● Summarizer of Non-GUI Mode in Detail

● HTML Report Generation from Non-GUI Mode with Best Practices

● HTML Report with Transactions & Requests

● Understanding JMeter HTML Report

 ● HTML Report with Transactions, Requests & Embedded Resources
Day-28
● HTML Report with only Transactions

● HTML Report with only Needed Transactions & Requests

● Understanding Execution Commands with Best Practices

● Importance or Beauty of JTL file

● Use of View Results in Table Listeners

● Ignoring Embedded Resources Failures while Running the Test in JMeter

● Response Time Values in Seconds in HTML Report

● Decreasing the Summarizer Interval Time

● Disabling Embedded Resources Renaming as of Parent Request

● 70%, 80% & 90% in HTML Report & in Aggregate Report Listener
Day-29
● Stopping Test Execution in Non-GUI Mode

● Test Execution, JTL file Generation & HTML Report Generation from GUI Mode

● Use of Simple Data Writer Listener

● Saving Complete Request & Response of a Test while Test Execution to a File (JTL or XML)

● Saving Request & Response for Only Failed Requests of a Test while Test Execution to a File
(JTL or XML)
● Test Execution Commands for Proxy Mode

● Understanding JMeter HTML Report (continued)

● APDEX in JMeter HTML Report

● 90% or 95% or 99% Response Time in Detail

● Why 90% Response Time is Used in Performance Testing?

● Graphs in JMeter HTML Report

Day-30
 ● HTTP Response Codes (or Status Codes)

● Types of Performance Testing

● Concurrent Users & Simultaneous Users

● Test Run, Analysis & Reporting

● Baseline, Bottlenecks & Benchmark

● Why Application become Slow?

● Importance of Knowing the Application Architecture in Performance Testing

● Latency, Bandwidth, Throughput, Response Time, Connect Time, Service Time, Queue Time,
Standard Deviation
● Parameterizing Important Parameters Using __P() function & Why to Use this function?

● Passing Arguments from CLI in Non-GUI Execution

● Assigning Values from JMeter’s “[Link]” File to Variables declared using __P()
function & Using them in Non-GUI Test
● Creating Own Custom Properties File & Passing That Properties File from CLI in Non-GUI
Execution
● Running 2 or More JMeter Test Scripts (or JMX Files) Sequentially in One Go in Non-GUI &
GUI mode
Day-31
● Absolute & Relative Path Concept in JMeter

● Debugging of Script in JMeter: - 4 helpful options

● Log Viewer, Types of Log Level, & Example

● JMeter & Distributed Load Testing using Load Generators (LGs) (Master & Slave Concept Or
Remote Testing): -
● Prerequisite Configuration (Or Requirements) to Do this Setup

● Making Communication Set-up b/w Master & Slave JMeters – 2 Ways

● Distributed Test Execution from GUI & Non-GUI Modes

● Limitations of Distributed Load Testing in JMeter

 ● Errors Related to Distributed Load Testing in JMeter

● Alternate Way of Distributed Load Testing in JMeter

Day-32
● JMeter & InfluxDB - Grafana Integration (with InfluxDB v1.x)

● Jmeter & Prometheus – Grafana Integration (with Prometheus)

Day-33
● JMeter & Jenkins Integration

● Running a JMeter Job in Jenkins

● Running a JMeter Job with Arguments in Jenkins & HTML Report Generation

● Running a JMeter Job with Integration of Jenkins Performance Plugin

● Running a Parametrized JMeter Job with Arguments in Jenkins

Day-34
● Test Suite Creation in JMeter OR Merging & Running Two or More Scenarios/Thread
Groups in JMeter
● Understanding Simple Way to Create Test Suite

● Workload Modelling or User Load Distribution across different Scenarios

● Test Suite Execution & Its HTML Report Generation

● Use of Module Controller & Test Fragment to Create Test Suite

● Use of Include Controller to Create Test Suite

Day-35
● Scope of JMeter Elements & Variables

● Local & Global Variables

● Execution Order (or Presidency) of JMeter Elements

● 3 Ways to Take Help in JMeter for Its Elements & Functions

● JMX, JTL, CSV, XML, HTML: - Understanding Them

 ● BlazeMeter Organization, Plugins offered by It, & Execution in BlazeMeter Cloud

● JMeter Intro & Pro Certification

● 3rd Party Ways for Recording & Exporting to JMeter

Day-36
● 3rd Party Ways of Recording & Exporting to JMeter

● Custom Script Creation using cURL cmd & Importing to JMeter

● Custom Script Creation using HAR & Exporting to JMeter

● Capturing Traffic using Fiddler tool & Exporting to JMeter

● Recording using BlazeMeter Chrome Plugin & Exporting to JMeter

● Limitations of 3rd Party Ways for Recording

Day-37
● JMeter Elements, Their Sub-Elements & Their Attributes in Detail: –

● Test Plan Element of JMeter: -

● Non-Test Elements of JMeter: -

● Threads & Thread Group Elements of JMeter: -

● Thread Group

● setUp Thread Group

● tearDown Thread Group

○ Stepping Thread Group
○ Ultimate Thread Group
○ Concurrency Thread Group
Day-38
● Controller Elements of JMeter: -

● Recording Controller

● Transaction Controller

● Simple Controller

● Loop Controller
 ● Runtime Controller

● Random Controller

● Random Order Controller

● Interleave Controller

● Once Only Controller

● Parallel Controller

● Throughput Controller

● Switch Controller

● If Controller

Day-38
● While Controller

● Module Controller

● Include Controller

● ForEach Controller

● Critical Section Controller

● Sampler Elements of JMeter: -

● HTTP Request

● Debug Sampler

● Dummy Sampler

● JDBC Request

● FTP Request

● WebDriver Sampler

● Access Log Sampler

● SMTP Sampler

● Mail Reader Sampler

 ● Flow Control Action

● BeanShell (& JSR223) Sampler

● OS Process Sampler

Day-39
● Config Elements of JMeter: -

● HTTP Header Manager

● HTTP Cookie Manager

● HTTP Cache Manager

● HTTP Request Defaults

● User Defined Variables

● CSV Data Set Config & Random CSV Data Set Config

● Counter Config Element

● Random Variable Config Element

● HTTP Authorization Manager

● Windows Authentication or Browser Pop Up Handling

● JDBC Connection Configuration

● FTP Request Defaults

● WebDriver Config

● Assertion Elements of JMeter: -

● Response Assertion

● Duration Assertion

● Size Assertion

● BeanShell (& JSR223) Assertion

Day-40
 ● Timer Elements of JMeter: -

● Constant Timer

● Uniform Random Timer

● Gaussian Random Timer

● Poisson Random Timer

● Think Time in JMeter

Day-41
● Synchronizing Timer

● Big Billion Day or Black Friday or Rendezvous Scenario

● Throughput in PT

● Constant Throughput Timer

● Pacing in JMeter

● Little’s Law to Calculate Pacing, Think Time, Number of VUsers, etc.

● Listeners Elements of JMeter: -

● Pre-Processors Elements of JMeter: -

● Post-Processors Elements of JMeter: -

Day-41
● JMeter & Bean Shell (or JSR223) & Understanding It w.r.t. Java with Realtime Use Cases
Examples: -
● Introduction

● BeanShell (& JSR223) Sampler

● BeanShell (& JSR223) Pre-Processor

● BeanShell (& JSR223) Post-Processor

● BeanShell (& JSR223) Assertion

 ● Variables, Integers, Strings

● Logging/Printing Values in JMeter Log Viewer & JMeter Console: - [Link](), print() &
[Link]()
● [Link]() & [Link]()

● Integer to String Conversion

Day-42
● Saving/Writing a Correlated Value to a File

● Saving/Writing multiple Correlated Values to a File

● Overwrite & Append operations

● JSR223 Element w.r.t. to Java

● Test Data Preparation & Saving/Writing User Credentials to a File

● Test Data Preparation & Saving/Writing User Credentials to a File for only Success
Transactions
● String Comparison

Day-43

● Saving/Writing User Credentials for Success Or Failed Users from a Long List of Test Data to
a File
● Saving/Writing Users with their Booked Order Details to a File

● Addition Or Other Mathematical Operations to a Number using JMeter Functions Or Java

Code
● String to Integer Conversion & Integer to String Conversion

Day-44
● Storing All Matches Or All Values Stored in an Array Variable to a Single Variable, Shuffling,
Removing Or Saving/Writing to a File
● Replacing or Removing a Character or Spaces from a Value

● Trimming Start & End Spaces from a Value

● [Link] & [Link]

 ● Saving Complete Response to a Variable

● Saving a Single Value in Response to a Variable

● Failing/Passing a Request based on certain Condition & Stopping User on Failure (E.g. of
BeanShell Assertion)
Day-45
● Creating & Deleting Files & Folders: - All Files, Files with a Particular Extension, Clearing a
Directory (or Folder)
● Passing a Value from One Thread Group to Another Thread Group: - __setProperty(),
__property() & props()
● Looping one or set of Transactions based on certain Condition (E.g. of While Controller)

● Booking an Order till a Particular Amount is Achieved in “Add to Cart” Transaction (E.g. of
While Controller)
● Executing different Transactions based on certain Cases or Conditions (E.g. of Switch
Controller)
● Error Handling in JMeter
Day-46
● JMeter & FTP Server Testing (File Upload & Download)

● JMeter & HTTP(s) File Download Scenario

● JMeter & HTTP(s) File Upload Scenario

Day-47
● JMeter & REST API Testing

● API testing using Postman

● Use of JSON Extractor

● JMeter & SOAP API Testing

Day-48
● JMeter & Database (Queries) Testing
Day-49
● Server-Side Matrices

● JMeter & PerfMon for Server Monitoring

 ● Client-Side (or UI) Matrices

● Client-Side (or UI) Performance Testing Tools

Day-50
● JMeter & Selenium WebDriver Integration for Page Load Testing (or UI or Client Side or User
Experience Testing)
Day-51
● JMeter & IP Spoofing (or Geo-Location Testing)

● JMeter & Network Speed Simulation to Test at Different Network Bandwidths (or Network
Throttling)
Day-52
● JMeter Functions
MODULE - 4
Day-53
● Web vitals using Light House

● Load Balancing techniques

● Thread dump

● Heap Dump

● Garbage Collection

● Dynatrace

● AppDynamics

● Eclipse-MAT

● J Visual-VM /J-Profiler