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
   JMeter Tutorial @ jmeter.net
   JMeter Tutorial @ tutorialspoint.com
   JMeter: getting started video tutorial
   RESTful API testing with JMeter
   
   Blazemeter Blog
   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:
   flood.io
   BlazeMeter
   RedLine13
   
   - 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
   Lightning: JMeter performance testing integration with CI infrastructure
   
   - Books:
   Apache JMeter: A Practical Beginner's Guide to Automated Testing and Performance Measurement for Your Websites by Emily H. Halili (Packt Publishing)
   Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9 by Bayo Erinle (Packt Publishing)
   Performance Testing with JMeter, 2nd Edition by Bayo Erinle (Packt Publishing)
   JMeter Cookbook by Bayo Erinle (Packt Publishing)
   Maîtriser JMeter. Du test de charge à Devops by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, Bruno Demion (Milamber) and Philippe Mouawad (sample @ Leanpub)
   Master Apache JMeter : From load testing to DevOps by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, Bruno Demion and Philippe Mouawad (sample @ Leanpub)

Good luck.

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UPD.
Please find, use and feel free to extend this Awesome JMeter collection continued as github repo.

Answer 2

I have put together a really simple article of doing performance testing with Jmeter over here - http://testcy.co.in/performance-testing-jmeter. Even novice users with not much technical knowledge of code can do performance testing using this method.

For more tutorials, here you go,

1. http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jmeter/jmeter_tutorial.pdf

2. http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/index.html

3. http://www.roseindia.net/jmeter/

4. http://jmetertutorials.blogspot.in/

5. http://www.jmeter.net/

Enjoy performance testing :)