README.md

rtc2018

These are files for Romanian Testing Conference 2018 Perofmance testing workshop & training

Links

Test environment

(Note! This will be removed after the session)

• Wordpress: http://rtc2018.absurdicum.net/
• JSON example: http://rtc2018.absurdicum.net/example.json

Important documents

• JMeter user manual: https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/index.html
• Groovy documentation: http://groovy-lang.org/documentation.html

Cheat sheets:

• XPath cheat sheet: https://devhints.io/xpath
• CSS Seletor cheat sheet: https://gist.github.com/smutnyleszek/809a69dd05e1d5f12d01
• JSONPath expression: http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/

Tools

• Zed Attack Proxy: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project
• Man in the middle proxy: https://mitmproxy.org/

Running JMeter

Following properties are used by the wordpress-performance-tests.jmx:

• threads
• rampup
• duration
• maxsleep
• minsleep
• host

These are defining how the script is executed.

The test set is created with the following command:

jmeter -n -t wordpress-performance-tests.jmx \
         -p full-logs.properties \
         -l results-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M") \
         -j log-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M") \
         -Jthreads=100 \
         -Jrampup=3600 \
         -Jduration=5400 \
         -Jmaxsleep=5000 \
         -Jminsleep=1000