You create and test your script locally in jmeter, so that later you can upload it to blazemeter to run.
The test contains hundreds of transaction controllers, each representing a page, and created by the script recorder.
The problem is, to run it locally, and get transaction controller summary by page, not by every request, you have to check "generate parent sample".
but this has to be disabled when you upload to blaze.
How do people handle this?
It doesn't seem possible to bulk edit these or use a variable, every transaction controller (representing a page) has to be manually edited every time.
Any suggestions?
JMeter .jmx scripts are basically XML files so you can open your script with text/XML editor of your choice, look for the next line:
<boolProp name="TransactionController.parent">false</boolProp>
it means that the Transaction Controller doesn't generate the parent sample. If you replace it with:
<boolProp name="TransactionController.parent">true</boolProp>
it will generate the parent sample (and vice versa)
You can use Taurus tool which has capability of bulk changing arbitrary JMeter test element property to the desired value, in your case disabling "parent" mode of the Transaction Controller would be something like:
execution:
scenario:
script: test.jmx
modifications:
set-prop:
"Transaction Controller>TransactionController.parent": false
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I am using Apache JMeter 5.4.1 to record a manual test script (to be automated later) on a web application.
I need the response data logs which are recorded in the View Results Tree for debugging purposes.
I don't want to run the script before debugging, because I need to parameterize the dynamic data which changes every run thus, I need to capture them using the response data.
The problem is, I need to save the file and continue later sometimes, and when I open the file and load the .jtl file into the View Results Tree, the response data doesn't show up. Like it never existed. I can still see the results but when I click on them I see "No Data".
What causes this strange phenomenon, and how can I work around this? Thank you!
By default JMeter doesn't save response data, if you're using View Results Tree listener in GUI mode you need to additionally instruct it to save the results as XML and explicitly tell it to store response data, example setup:
If you're running the test in command-line non-GUI mode - amend Results File Configuration in user.properties file to look like:
jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=xml
jmeter.save.saveservice.response_data=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.samplerData=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.requestHeaders=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.responseHeaders=true
jmeter.save.saveservice.url=true
More information: How to Save Response Data in JMeter
I like to generate HTML report with parents transactions only not with all child sample in JMeter 5.4.3
I checked the box "Generate Parent Sample" in transaction controller. But when I execute non gui test from command I see all child sample are included.
Can some help?
Thanks
Saleem Soomro
I believe that's a bug in JMeter (at least since JMeter 5.0) so you can raise it via JMeter Bugzilla.
If you don't want to see these "extra" results in the HTML Dashboard the options are in:
Downgrade to JMeter 4.0 where Transaction Controller still works according to documentation which states:
In parent mode, the individual samples can still be seen in the Tree View Listener, but no longer appear as separate entries in other Listeners. Also, the sub-samples do not appear in CSV log files, but they can be saved to XML files
Add the next line to user.properties file:
jmeter.save.saveservice.subresults=false
this way you will have only "parent" sample results in the .jtl results file (it may have some negative side effect resulting in improper calculation of the throughput when it comes to i.e. embedded resources)
I want to do load test as well as performance test a website and I have recorded user step by step action through jmeter recording by proxy setting. And when I run this recorded test it gets passed all the sections except one section.
During recording steps, it gets filled all the required fields like POST, GET, PATH etc by default as well as like token, session id etc in the HTTP header manager. When user login again its get unique session id and token through Regular Expression Extractor. But my test gets failed when the user wants to accept a task it says unauthorized. I have attached screenshot.
This image showing all the steps user will do from login to logout.
Here steps 2.9 section gets fail.
Here its showing the response from the server.
Please let me know where am I doing wrong.
There are multiple possible issues with your test:
Location of the Regular Expression Extractor and other Post and Pre-Processors. According to JMeter Scoping Rules they are applied to all your Samplers so please double check if this is something you're looking for. If you want to apply the Post-Processor to a single sampler - you need to move it to be a child of the particular sampler
Since JMeter 3.1 it's recommended to use JSR223 Test Elements and Groovy language for scripting so consider converting your Beanshell test elements into JSR223 ones
Since JMeter 3.0 there is JSON Extractor which you should be using instead of the plugins
In general HTTP status 401 means Unauthorized so double check that your test is doing what it is supposed to be doing using View Results Tree listener. You might also want to double check JMeter Variables values using Debug Sampler as it might be the case that the variables are being overwritten with something you don't expect due to the aforementioned Scoping Rules potential issue
I wanted to know if JMeter has a option where you wait until some element disappears.
Example a loading bar only once that has completed or no longer visible then to carry on. (Also being able to monitor the length of time taken)
I have through about writing it as a webdriver test and then running it as a Junit test in JMeter but wanted to know if there is a simpler solution.
Any ideas welcome :)
First of all you need to realize that JMeter is not a browser
JMeter is not a browser, it works at protocol level. As far as web-services and remote services are concerned, JMeter looks like a browser (or rather, multiple browsers); however JMeter does not perform all the actions supported by browsers. In particular, JMeter does not execute the Javascript found in HTML pages. Nor does it render the HTML pages as a browser does (it's possible to view the response as HTML etc., but the timings are not included in any samples, and only one sample in one thread is ever displayed at a time).
So JMeter doesn't execute any client-side JavaScript, the only way of implementing "wait until" option is using While Controller in order to re-execute the same request again and again until response data will contain (or stop containing) the element you're looking for.
If you need to evaluate client-side JavaScript the only option would be going for Selenium. I would recommend using WebDriver Sampler instead of going for JUnit as this way you won't have to recompile your script for any change, it will be inlined into .jmx
You can use Transaction Controller to monitor the time taken by the whole process and to wait for a change , have a look at this:
http://www.sourcepole.ch/2011/1/4/waiting-for-a-page-change-in-jmeter
Im new to JMeter and have just created a test plan using the proxy server.
The test plan covers a fairly long user journey on a web app with a lot of pages, images, scripts and css being requested, because of this when I run the test plan and view the results in a listener such as the 'View Results Tree' the sampler list is very long and if I try and use a graph there are so many results its hard to make out individual values.
Is there a way in JMeter where I could group all the requests related to a page under that page and only have to page name display in the listener but still have the ability to drill into an individual page and see the details for each sample?
Thanks.
For this you can use Transaction Controller:
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#Transaction_Controller
Keep Include duration of timer and pre-post processors in generated sample unchecked.
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I agree with PMD, Transaction controller is exactly what you need.
You can achieve that automatically (while you're saving your test) if you enable jMeter proxy's option Put each group in a new transaction controller.
A couple of more details (about jMeter Plugins' listeners I regularly use) here:
Define a group of requests in order to obtain a total time in Jmeter
You can use the tool BADBOY tool to record your test and there you can easily bifurcate/ remove the unwanted content.
From BADBOY you can directly Export the recorded script to JMeter by simply from
File menu>>Exort To JMeter
This is what currently we are following and is a bit easy to use.