In this article I am going to talk about a book on Jmeter
recently published from Packt Publisher. I was lucky to get an offer to review
this book as a technical reviewer before publishing (you may find in the book).
Today I am going to talk little more about the book.
Most of we know , jmeter have its own documentation and
which is pretty enough and rich.
So, why we need book. Why we want to invest. Practically,
jmeter documentation is bit too much technical from the beginning. For a new person,
it is a little bit complex. At least I felt that when I have started. Frankly, I have struggled a lot while going
through very details. And we can learn only core jmeter form its documentation.
But, the is very useful
in this case. It is very careful regarding its presentation. It is organized in
such way to so that it can be very helpful for beginners. We can start testing
very quickly without knowing much inner details. And, it creates an impression of being very
easy to new learners. Besides that, this is the only book that contains Jmeter plug-in
explanations. Jmeter plug-in was created to overcome the advantages of Load Runner
over jmeter. No book contains this much detail and useful information about
jmeter plug-in. This is the cover page of the book
So, Who are the readers? The book is useful if you are
1. A new person to performance testing with jmeter
2. You are using jmeter for certain time and you want to use
advance features
3. You are doing R&D on tools, and you want to know detail
about what Jmeter can do
4. You are a java expert and you want to make a tool like as
jmeter, you can gather information as well as get the code and requirements.
Advantages of this book :
1. Most of the testing
comes with examples and detail description. So, it gives clear idea and useful
information before start practicing and implementing.
2. Very good
explanations on side technology that are used( i.e. - Regular Expression , JSON
etc)
3. Very useful explanation on advance topics like session,
cookie, URL rewrite.
4. Spatial chapter on server monitoring (profMon) and
distributed testing which are very helpful & necessary for industry
standard testing.
5. The packaging of the books is very good. I got a hard copy
of the book.
Some Disadvantages:
1. I admit, the book
could have more image to explain. I guess, author want to keep book more thin
and cheap.
2. The book could add
some more detail chapters on how to get useful reports. As we know, jmeter used
to provide raw results (unlike load runner), we have to process the results in
to report manually. Some example with ideas regarding reporting would have been
very useful.
3. The books still looks
a bit technical not from be beginning but in later on. So, if we run through
chapter without practicing, it might be little complex.
My opinion: The book is perfect for a new person as well as for regular jmeter users. It would be very useful if there were some explanation about extending jmeter codes to make new custom tools as well as how to customize jmeter and plugins on project and scenario basis.
And, I think this book is worth buying for both learning and
industry level performance testing. You
can buy this book from amazon.
Thanks...:)
