This chapter explained in detail how Web Performance Testing works, and how the recording of Web Performance Testing takes place for the web applications. We have gone through different properties of the Web Performance Tests including copying the tests, cleaning the unwanted recorded requests, and extracting the details from the request as to whether it has Form POST Parameters or QueryString Parameters. In this chapter, we also learned about setting the rules for validating details and extracting details based on different conditions. Transaction helps us to group a set of similar requests and give it a name, which we saw with an example. Many times during testing we may have to use dynamic data that we may not be aware of while recording or creating the test. We have learned how to include different data sources and map the fields to the data source fields and also parameterize fields and web server names.

At the end of this chapter, we learned how to execute the tests and collect the test results. There are some more advanced Web Performance Testing features using custom code in tests. This is covered in detail in the next chapter.