Where can I find good JMeter tutorials?

Question

I have just been assigned the tasks of doing some research and doing some JMeter tests of my own to get familiar with performance testing. As I have never used this tool before, I would just like to know where I can find good JMeter tutorials for beginners?

Answer 1

1. Looking into Jmeter User's Manual will be indeed good as first step (Getting Started, Building a Test Plan, Building a Web Test Plan).

2. Several step-by-step guidelines about Jmeter setup and usage for performance/load testing you can find here:
   
   - Jmeter articles and tutorials:
   Load Testing your Applications with Apache JMeter
   Using JMeter
   Effective load testing with Apache JMeter
   Load Testing with JMeter: Getting Started
   A Simple Load Test with JMeter
   Load Testing with Apache JMeter
   Performance testing with JMeter
   Your First JMeter Test
   Functional Testing with JMeter
   Jmeter Resources @ InfoSec Institute
   Load Testing Cloud Blog
   Jmeter: getting started video tutorial
   Ubik Load Pack Blog
   
   - Some thoughts on stress testing web applications with JMeter:
   part 1
   part 2
   Concurrent, High Throughput Performance Testing with JMeter
   
   - More common about load and performance testing:
   Load, Stress, Performance Test Terms, Deliverables, Profiles and Reports
   
   - Jmeter results analysis:
   Jmeter Plugins - set of custom graphs in this package; some of them provide better results reporting out-of-box than jmeter's original ones;
   Jmeter Wiki: Suggestions and Recipes for Log Analysis
   Better JMeter Graphs
   Plotting your load test with JMeter
   Performance Testing: Analyzing JMeter Results
   Loadosophia.org
   JMeter Result Analysis Plugin
   
   - Cloud / distributed load testing platforms:
   Gridinit
   BlazeMeter
   
   - Custom Jmeter plugins:
   JMeter Plugins
   AtlantBH Custom JMeter Components
   Ubik Load Pack Plugin
   JMeter Groovy Sampler
   JMeter Rest Sampler
   JMeter REST Sampler
   JMeter RMI Plugin
   JMeter Plugin for OAuth Calls
   JMeter AMF Plugin
   JMeter AMF Sampler
   JMeter AMF visualizer
   JMeter Sampler for rstatd
   JMeter OAuth Sampler
   MysqlCollectorPlugin
   JMeterDBCollector
   JMeterreport plugin: Nice html reports of funtional testresults
   JMeter JDBC Sampler
   JMeter Results Analyser
   SNMP JMeter
   JMeter SNMP Plugin
   JMeter SSH Sampler
   
   - Integration:
   JMeter Maven Plugin
   Jenkins Performance Plugin
   Sonar JMeter Plugin
   Bamboo JMeter Aggregator Plugin
   Using a Load Generator in NetBeans IDE

3. For more detailed and specific articles you can refer this collection of Jmeter links.

Good luck.