How can I add Post https request in bzm-Parallel controller.
I want to add/combine 4 https Post requests which uploads 4 files at a time using bzm-parallel controller.
I tried simply putting normal post/upload request in 'bzm-parallel controller' but it didn't workout.
also the provided csv data configuration is not working if I use bzm-parallel Controller getting file not found exception.
${path} Variable provided in CSV not picking while execution.
Given your HTTP Request works per se it should work under the Parallel Controller as well. Double check that you can perform the upload using single thread and inspect request and response details using View Results Tree listener. Once request will be successful - put it under the Parallel Controller.
Be aware that Parallel Controller was developed primarily to overcome JMeter's limitation with regards to impossibility to kick off extra threads to mimic i.e. AJAX requests. It is not the best option for your use case, I would recommend consider using Synchronizing Timer instead.
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i am still new to JMeter and i was assigned to a work that I will need to use JMeter to perform automation testing. The idea is to write script using JMeter and run the script to fill in the forms in the website. I was curious that can JMeter use different data from the database to fill in the form of the website everytime it execute?(unique data for every user)
I have followed this tutorial (https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/fill-forms-and-submit-with-jmeter-made-easy/ ) and it succeed, however, when i try to change the parameter name (to some other names that do not matches the field name found in the inpect mode), it still works. So i was wondering how JMeter knows where to put in the parameter even i have change to a wrong field name?
As per JMeter Project main page:
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).
Browsers don't do any magic, they execute HTTP Requests, wait for response and render it. JMeter in its turn can execute the same HTTP requests so traffic would be the same, however it will not render the response, but rather measure the time and collect some more metrics.
If you change the names of the inputs in the form most probably the request will be successful, to wit you will get HTTP Status Code below 400 hence JMeter will mark the result as "green", however if you inspect the response using View Results Tree listener you will see that the form is not filled and/or you still at the same page.
If you want to use JMeter for checking the data returned by the application you're testing consider using JMeter Assertions to test presence of expected values, absence of errors, set response time thresholds, etc.
You can automate the form submission or order placement usin JMeter. You can JMeter for API testing as well by adding assertions. But the main purpose of the JMeter is to test the performance of the application. Its not like selenium which performs actions on the browser whereas JMeter sends the request in various protocols to relevant server and can also simulate many users at the same time.
If you want to do extensive automation testing,JMeter isnt the ideal tool for that.
You can use webdriver sampler to run the selenium with jmeter. It requires to configure sampler and browser config which are plugin and can be downloaded using plugin manager.
For more info:-https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/jmeter-webdriver-sampler/
Now, without the plugin it is working on protocol level and not on the frontend as pointed out in the above comments.
So, yes it can depend on which layer you want to work. It can work on frontend like selenium using the webdriver plugin and can submit the form with different data as a direct request to the server without using the frontend/GUI.
Hope this helps.
It depends on what you are trying to automate. If you plan to automate API invocation where there are some pre-requisites like grabbing tokens, cookies, session IDs from the browser, then JMeter can probably be used where existing JMeter capabilities can be leveraged using BeanShell scripting and other plugins.
But if you plan to have a full blown UI automation framework then JMeter might not be an ideal choice.
I am doing performance testing for an application that has AJAX calls. I am able to record the same requests but unable to execute them. Can anyone help me in execute the AJAX requests, please?
Do I need to use any extra plugin for this? If yes, what are they and how to I use them.
I'm not aware of any existing plugins which are capable of handling AJAX calls. Technically AJAX requests are basic HTTP Requests but they need to be executed in parallel using one extra thread per call.
For the moment it is not possible to have nested thread groups in JMeter so you'll have to do some extra coding using JSR223 Sampler to kick off AJAX requests. Main request and nested AJAX calls should be placed under Transaction Controller to look like a real-browser behavior.
Alternatively you can develop your own JMeter Sampler which will be able to spawn extra threads to simulate AJAX requests.
For details on 2 approaches above see How to Load Test AJAX/XHR Enabled Sites With JMeter guide.
This one worked for us - we just put multiple HTTP Request samplers directly under it:
https://github.com/Blazemeter/jmeter-bzm-plugins/blob/master/parallel/Parallel.md
From the link:
Note from image:
All direct child elements of this controller will be executed as parallel.
Although it looks a bit dormant, I built this sampler and it is working fine for me. It creates a single sampler that you can add multiple requests to and they are all fired in parallel. Cookie/header managers/variables are available to the requests:
https://github.com/blackboard/jmeter-common/tree/master/src/main/java/blackboard/jmeter/sampler/ConcurrentHttpRequests
p.s. I added a line to the processResult method in ConcurrentHttpRequestsSampler.java to write the response body to a jmeter variable prefixed with the sub-sample name, as the response bodies from the sub requests aren't available to post-processors on the ConcurrentHttpRequests sampler:
try{
jmeterContextOfParentThread.getVariables().put(subResult.getSampleLabel()+"_responseBody",new String(subResult.getResponseData(),"UTF-8"));
}
catch(java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
jmeterContextOfParentThread.getVariables().put(subResult.getSampleLabel()+"_responseBody","Unable to read response data");
}
I am using Jmeter(2.3.2) to create script for one of my application with a scenario which has flow for 4 to 5 pages. I have recorded the script using HTTP Proxy Server. The scripts has been generated successfully under Thread Group >> Recording Controller.
After running the scripts (Threads- 1, Ramp Up period - 1, Loop Count - 1 ), below are the observations I noted in View Results Tree:
The Result Tree view shows all as Checked(Green) - OK
The Sample result for all screens shows Error Count as 0 - OK
But in the response tab when I try to view the results by using 'Render Html' response data - the response data shows the same response for all the requests.
I am getting the response data of the first request for all the other requests.
I am not sure, whether the Jmeter script generated is functional or not? What is the cause for getting the same response data for all the requests?
Please, can anyone let me know what may the issue?
I bet that the same page you're observing is a kind of login page or dashboard which is accessible by unauthenticated user.
First of all make sure that you have HTTP Cookie Manager added to your test plan. It represents browser cookies and deals with user sessions and cookie-based authentication.
If it doesn't resolve your issue the problem is bigger and you will need to do some extra stuff. Modern web applications use multiple mechanisms of current state of things storing and managing, security enhancements and so on. From JMeter's point of view it results in dynamic mandatory parameters. The process of these dynamic parameters extraction from previous request and adding them to next request is called "correlation". So you need to do the following:
Detect which parameters being sent by a recorded script are dynamic. The easiest way is to record the same scenario several times and inspect request bodies to see what is being static and what changes.
Once you figure out which parameters are "interesting" you need to locate them in the first response body/headers/etc.
As soon as you have identified what necessary parameters are and where they live you need to use one of JMeter's PostProcessors to extract required values from previous response and save them to JMeter Variables
Once you have a JMeter Variable it can be used wherever required.
Depending on response data type the most commonly used JMeter's Post Processors which provide correlation capabilities are:
Regular Expression Extractor - the most commonly used test element which covers >90% of needs.
XPath Extractor - better to use against XML data i.e. for testing SOAP Web Services.
CSS/JQuery Extractor - when you need to fetch something from complex HTML where Regular Expression Extractor is useless.
So for putting everything together loog for "jmeter correlation" in your favorite search engine or see ASP.NET Login Testing with JMeter guide.
First JMeter 2.3.2 is WAY TOO OLD (10 years old), upgrade to JMETER 2.11.
Second, Jmeter cannot guess that the response if KO if the returned code is 200, so you need to add Response Assertion that will check for some text you expect in the page.
In my test scripts, I use a header manager that is shared at a thread group level, and then each sampler has it's own header as well for things that change (referrer, certain pragmas and cache-control) from request to request. I do this for ease of control e.g. so I can easily change the user agent for all requests.
I use the proxy and a recording controller to make the majority of my scripts, and I have set a header manager as a child of the recording controller - I have also tested this by setting a header manager inside the proxy element, but neither of these work as I want.
What it is doing is adding in a full set of headers from the browser, and not just those missing or different than what I have specified in the header manager.
Am I missing something, or is there even a way to do what I am trying to do?
I am using jmeter 2.6.
As others have pointed out, this doesn't happen yet in Jmeter. I am using 2.7 and see the same behavior.
I believe the original intent of the HTTP Request Defaults and HTTP Header Manager was to ease the task of developers creating scripts by hand. With the increased usage of the HTTP Proxy Controller, the application of the the above two elements needs to be extended to the Proxy Controller as well for recording.
Let me describe the issue which i have been facing.
i want to do performance and load testing on our internal website. which has login and other functionalities.
the issue i am facing that when i hit 12 or any number of request using http sampler then i am getting same response from all the 12 request. But actual scenario is that webpage displays different data for different page.
I checked using firebug and everything is working fine over there using correct response from request but when i use jmeter i am using same response from every request.
Please let me know if anybody had faced same kind of issue of is there anything i am doing wrong in configuring script.
Try to add HTTP Cookie Manager to your test-plan to the root (Test Plan) node or to the Thread Group node.
As per jmeter documentation:
The last element is a HTTP Cookie Manager. A Cookie Manager should be
added to all web tests - otherwise JMeter will ignore cookies. By
adding it at the Thread Group level, we ensure that all HTTP requests
will share the same cookies.
Ensure that parameters values that are dynamic are not hard-coded (after recording jmeter scripts, for example): no hard-coded JSessionID values in your HTTP requests, e.g..
Ensure you don't miss any necessary params in your HTTP requests.
JMeter does not process Javascript or applets embedded in HTML pages.
Your problem may be caused by this feature.
As per jmeter documentation:
JMeter does not process Javascript or applets embedded in HTML pages.
JMeter can download the relevant resources (some embedded resources
are downloaded automatically if the correct options are set), but it
does not process the HTML and execute any Javascript functions.
If the page uses Javascript to build up a URL or submit a form, you
can use the Proxy Recording facility to create the necessary sampler.
If this is not possible, then manual inspection of the code may be
needed to determine what the Javascript is doing.
I would also recommend your to look first into Jmeter reference before further scripting activities - this may prevent from some faults and frustration.
At least these:
Building a Test Plan
Elements of a Test Plan
Building a Web Test Plan
Building an Advanced Web Test Plan
Hope this helps.
I would suggest - Use Jmeter's Regular Expressions. You may be able to resolve this issue with RegEx. Post using regex, use 'View Results Tree' listener to check if you are getting apt response for each of your threads.
You can also analyze your results using Blazemeter's listener that gives you more insights into your test.