When you use the recording controller, you end up with say 30 pages as 30 transaction controllers, each controller with say 20 requests.
If you want a standard pause (think time) between pages, you can use the "add think times to children"
this adds a "flow control action" after each page/transaction controller.
To set the "duration" value to "${thinkTime}, where thinkTime is defined in the "Dedfined Variables" controller, I have to edit and save each one.
Is there any way to edit or set them once?
I tried adding a single constant timer to the "recording controller", but this puts the pause between every request, not every page.
You can ctrl-select all the "think time" objects, but if you then edit and save, it only saves one.
Adding think times between pages is something I do so often, I am sure there must be a way to not have to edit each one if they should all be the same?
If you're an "optimisation freak" consider using "Recording with Think Time" JMeter Template which automatically adds an Uniform Random Timer with the relevant value placeholder:
If you don't link the Uniform Random Timer you can replace it with i.e. Flow Control Action sampler and make your own brand new template.
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I had recorded the script using blaze meter plugin, and using ultimate thread group, I am not able to figure out:
Why there is delay in sending first request? I have not set any delayed and start-time is also for 1 second
Also in my result tree I am seeing multiple http requests called. What am I doing wrong here?
We are not telepathic enough to guess why do you have the "delay" without seeing your test plan, most probably there is something like "Think-Time" or other Timer there
having non-zero "Thread Delay" value. This is to simulate real user using the real browser. Real users don't hammer the application under test non-stop, they need some time to "think" between operations so most probably this delay is due to the timer action
If you look at Defaults configuration element at the "Advanced" tab there is a setting instructing JMeter to download so-called "Embedded Resources". In the main HTML response there are multiple referenced elements like images, scripts, styles, fonts, sounds, etc. and JMeter parses the main HTML response, extracts these resources from there and downloads them as this is what real browsers do.
In JMeter when I right click Thread/Controller I have an option: Add Think Time to children feature , when I click on it I get after every Sampler Test Action Pause with Uniform Random Timer with Random Delay 100 and Constant Delay 1000.
I didn't find in documentation any reference to it and why/how it should be used.
Is it configurable and how? is there a special case for it or should it be used for loading best practice ?
Also you can add several times think times I'm not sure is it on purpose (add more delays after request)
EDIT
Configurable using jmeter.properties:
# Default implementation that create the Timer structure to add to Test Plan
# Implementation of interface org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.thinktime.ThinkTimeCreator
#think_time_creator.impl=org.apache.jmeter.thinktime.DefaultThinkTimeCreator
# Default Timer GUI class added to Test Plan by DefaultThinkTimeCreator
#think_time_creator.default_timer_implementation=org.apache.jmeter.timers.gui.UniformRandomTimerGui
# Default constant pause of Timer
#think_time_creator.default_constant_pause=1000
# Default range pause of Timer
#think_time_creator.default_range=100
When it comes to web applications load testing the idea is to represent a real user sitting in front of computer using a real browser as close as possible.
Well-behaved JMeter test needs to mimic this real user with all its stuff like:
headers
cookies
cache
embedded resources
AJAX requests
etc.
The purpose of using Timers in JMeter tests is simulating real users "think times". Users don't hammer application non-stop, they need some time to "think" between operations, fill forms, type comments, even clicking on a button or link takes some time. So if you are testing if your web application supports X users each JMeter thread must act like a real user so you need to add reasonable think times using Timers. There is no "best practice" or "known good values", it depends only on your web application specifics. See A Comprehensive Guide to Using JMeter Timers for more details.
This feature is made to simplify addition of Think Times, the way it adds them to plan lead to pause between every sampler while if you just add a Timer it will be scoped and thus be applied before all samplers in scope.
As it's a helper, it adds default Pause of 1 second that are configurable by tuning the properties you have mentioned and which are documented :-) :
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/properties_reference.html#timer
You can adjust:
The type of Timers you want to create
The constant and variable pause range
You can even create your own class that would work differently.
I am using Transaction controller for my testing process, and I have 5 transaction controllers. Now I want to specify think time (Timer) between each Transaction controller say 300 ms.
When I add constant timer, then every sampler takes 300ms think time to process and because of this the overall response is increased a bit.
Is there any other way to give think time to only transaction controller and not individually sampler?
You can work it around as follows:
Add a Beanshell Post Processor as a child of the last request in each Transaction Controller
Put the following code into the Post Processor's "Script" area:
Thread.sleep(300L);
Configure Transaction Controller to
generate parent sample
not to include duration of post processors and timers into the generated sample
See Using JMeter's Transaction Controller guide for more detailed explanation.
I could think of 2 options that would provide required solution:
1)The easiest way would be to put the timer to the first request of the following transaction controller.
OR
2) At the end of the Controller add Test Action which can be found under Sampler where you can provide PAUSE time in milliseconds.
Hope this helps.
Add a Test Action and select pause. Set this to 0ms and then add a Gaussian Random timer to the test action. Configuring timers this way will allow you to run the test with pauses or without (for debugging), test actions configured as timers will not be skipped when clicking "Start No Pauses", while the Gaussian timers attached to test actions will.
The best way to do this is via "Add think times to children" on the Recording controller. This will insert a "think time" action between each controller. Then you specify the duration in ms in each Think Time action.
Usually, I would use ${thinkTime} as the duration, then specify thinkTime = 10000 or similar in the "User defined variables" config element you can add to the top of your project.
The think time is between transaction controllers, not between requests in a controller.
I am using jmeter 5.3.
I've a JMeter Script that does the following:
User registers to the site filling out a form with personal information
Reads through Terms, Condition and agrees to the Agreement
Reads through the instructions and answers practice questions before taking the test (next step)
Takes a timed test of multiple choices for 10 minutes and submits answers.
As you can imagine, they require different delays. Users take 1-2 minutes to fill-out the form. Usually goes really quick through the terms and conditions (less than 30 seconds) and hits 'I Agree' button. Then spends 4-5 minutes in reading the instructions and taking the practice tests (I measured, takes approximately 4-5 minutes) and finally takes the 10 minute timed test.
Now, question is: how do I insert these different time delays between different page requests? I saw some posts that shows how to insert variable time delays to 'ALL' pages. But for me that doesn't help. Please see attached image of what I ideally intend to do.
Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance!
--Ishti
I think I got the answer. It's actually in the Manual itself at:
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#timers
Note that timers are processed before each sampler in the scope in which they are found; if there are several timers in the same scope, all the timers will be processed before each sampler.
Timers are only processed in conjunction with a sampler. A timer which is not in the same scope as a sampler will not be processed at all.
To apply a timer to a single sampler, add the timer as a child element of the sampler. The timer will be applied before the sampler is executed. To apply a timer after a sampler, either add it to the next sampler, or add it as the child of a Test Action Sampler.
I have written a load test for a web application. The test script submits a request to the server via HTTP and then polls the server in a While loop with a small timer, to see when the request has been processed. The problem I am having is that in all the listeners (aggregate graph, table, etc.) JMeter only shows the time each request took and not the total time to process the job, i.e. time from initial request sent until response that contains the expected "complete" message.
How can I add something like "profiling points" which will get data onto the listeners graphs? Or is there another way this is typically handled?
You need a Transaction Controller. Put elements times of which you want to aggregate under it. Transaction controller will then appear in all your listeners. Its load and latency times will be sums of those parameters of its nested elements.
Note that this time by default includes all processing within the controller scope, not just the samples, this can be changed by unchecking "Include duration of timer and pre-post processors in generated sample".