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3. Your First JMeter Test

Sai Matam and Jagdeep Jain2

(1)Pleasonton, California, USA

(2)Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, India

This chapter discusses the various components of JMeter and helps you develop the first JMeter test script. You will find out about the various ways (GUI/non-GUI) of running and stopping/shutting down JMeter test scripts in standalone test execution and server mode of test execution.

At the end of this chapter, you will have a good idea of the various components of JMeter and be able to write a simple JMeter test script, as well as start/stop/shut down tests from GUI and non-GUI modes.

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