Top Books on Performance Testing and JMeter


Below are some of the must-have books on your shelves for learning and practicing performance testing. These books cover every aspect of performance testing and can be referred by every tester to gain expertise in the performance testing domain.


This book is great for you if you are a developer, quality assurance engineer, tester, or test manager who is looking to get a firmer grasp of elementary, deep, and advanced testing concepts using Apache JMeter. It’s assumed you have access to a computer and an Internet connection. No prior testing or programming experience is required, but would be helpful.




This book is great for developers, quality assurance engineers, testers, and test managers new to Apache JMeter, or those who are looking to get a good grounding in how to effectively use and become proficient with JMeter. No prior testing experience is required.




This book is written by JMeter developers and begins by discussing the whole process, including recording a script, setting it up, and launching it, enabling you to almost immediately start load testing. You'll learn the best practices that you must follow while designing test cases. You'll also explore the different protocols offered by JMeter through various real-world examples. Finally, you'll see how to integrate JMeter into the DevOps approach and create professional reports.




This book discusses the basics and presents a framework for performance testing. You will be able to create performance testing plan that is relevant based on your requirements. This book follows step by step approach and guides you through the installation, configuration, test plan creation, execution and result interpretation using JMeter tool. This also presents a case study which explains, in great detail, on how JMeter can be used in all the aspects of performance testing in a typical project.




Pro Apache JMeter covers almost every aspect of Apache JMeter in detail and includes helpful screenshots and a case study. A performance primer chapter provides a high-level summary of terms used in performance testing on a day-to-day basis that also is useful for non-technical readers. This step-by-step guide covers what you will need to know to write and execute test scripts, and verify the results.