I have a login function in website. I have tried 2 things to create load testing plan :
Record login scenario using jmeter and complete load test
Use login API, configure in Jmeter and complete load test
I realize that 2nd option from above is faster than 1st when running load test? Can anyone help me to understand why?
Well-behaved test should simulate end-user behaviour as close as possible, so basically you have at least 2 requests:
Open login page
Perform login
In addition when mimicking real browser you have to deal with a lot more data, i.e. complete HTML response, JavaScript, CSS, images, etc.
In case of API you have only one request consisting of username and password and one small response indicating whether login attempt successful or not.
I believe load test should be as close to reality as possible so I would recommend 1st option. Make sure that you add the next test elements to your Test Plan:
HTTP Cookie Manager
HTTP Cache Manager
HTTP Header Manager
and follow recommendations from How To Make JMeter Behave More Like A Real Browser guide for detailed instructions.
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I am trying to run performance test using Jmeter for my client application which uses Signicat, a third part identity verification site for SSO login. I cannot get through with jmeter execution for login. There is a dynamic token appended in one of the http requests related to login but I cannot find it in any of the previous responses to correlate.
Has anybody tried Performance tests with Signicat or any other SSO login ? I appreciate any suggestions or leads. Thank you.
PS: I tried to monitor the traffic in fiddler while accessing the site . I don't see the token source there as well.
Unfortunately your question doesn't contain sufficient level of details.
If you're seeing the dynamic token there are following possible options:
It needs to be correlated (extracted from the previous response), the possible sources are:
URL (as a part of a redirect)
response headers
response body
It needs to be generated, if the dynamic value is being generated by client-side JavaScript JMeter won't be able to execute the JavaScript, you will have to replicate the code using JSR223 PreProcessor and preferably Groovy as the language in order to generate the same value as the real browser does
Looking into Connecting your application chapter there are several possible protocols/options and it will require rather a story than a chapter to provide comprehensive instructions on each of them:
for some of them like "Other third party software" it is not even possible doing this remotely without knowing the infrastructure and the authentication/authorization processes.
I'm new to using Jmeter tool.
I have recorded my application using blazemeter (v3.1) and then trying to run that .jmx file in Jmeter, however I am running into an authorization issue and the script fails to run.
I have also tried setting my "HTTP Authorization Manager" with username, url, password but it does not help. If anyone can, please guide me on this Issue. Thanks.
As per 4 Things You Should Never Do with Your JMeter Script article:
Don’t run the script exactly as you recorded it
After recording your script, there is still some work to do before you run it. It’s necessary to correlate variables, parameterize and add elements, to faithfully simulate users.
There are too many ways of possible authentication implementation in your application, most probably you need to send some dynamic value along with credentials which can be fetched from the previous request.
Record your test scenario 2 times and compare recorded requests. Be careful as differences might be in response headers and URL, not only in response data. It makes sense to add View Results Tree listener directly to HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder - this way you will be able to see what data is captured by JMeter and amend its configuration so simulated request would look exactly like the request from the real browser.
I am trying to login to an application first with single user and recorded the time using "Page load time" plugin of chrome and then i am trying to login with Jmeter and applying load of Just 1 user but there is much difference in time.
is my approach correct? if yes why there is difference in load time.
Well-behaved JMeter request should give the same timings as browser does.
Make sure you configure your HTTP Request sampler to "Retrieve All Embedded Resources"
Ensure that you have Parallel downloads ticked
Add HTTP Header Manager and configure it to send all the HTTP Headers which browser is sending.
If web application you're trying to load test is built using AJAX technology you will need to add the relevant HTTP Request samplers to mimic asynchronous JavaScript-driven calls as JMeter doesn't execute client-side JavaScript. Once done you can combine requests into one "Login" sequence using Transaction Controller.
See How to make JMeter behave more like a real browser article for more hints on how to properly configure JMeter for web applications testing.
I'm trying to do a load test of e commerce site with complete flow from product search, login to add to cart and submit. Product search and anonymous order is working fine but when I'm trying to run script for registered user it's not working. How can I fix this?Click here to download script
Your "download" link is broken or expired or whatever.
Most probably your request doesn't work for authorised users due to missing or improperly working correlation. Modern web applications cannot be just recorded and replayed as they widely use dynamic request parameters mostly for security reasons. So if this is the case your test needs to look as follows:
Open Login Page (usually GET request)
Extract dynamic parameters using one of matching JMeter Post-Processors and store them into JMeter Variables
Perform Login (usually POST Request) providing not only credentials, but also dynamic parameters values from the first request
Also make sure you add HTTP Cookie Manager to your Test Plan - it represents browser cookies and automatically deals with cookie-based authentication
You might want to try an alternative way of recording a JMeter test - using cloud-based proxy which is capable of exporting recorded tests in "SmartJMX" mode with automatic correlation of any dynamic parameters detected. Check out How to Cut Your JMeter Scripting Time by 80% article for more information.
I am trying to automate testing of a web application.
I have recorded the test using JMeter proxy template (JMeter version is 3.2) and couple of times when I ran the test in the JMeter it ran properly but after sometime only some part runs properly.
Following are the steps I am doing:
Hitting the URL
Logging into the application
changing some feature in the application
and so on.
All the steps ran perfectly first few times but then after that only till login everything runs properly.
Just to be sure I tried passing the jsessionid from the first request to the next requests using the Regular "Expression Extractor". I can see in the View Results Tree that jsessionid is passed properly but next page after the step two still takes me into the login screen.
Any help will be very much appreciated.
I have attached screenshot for better understanding:
The response header of logged in page includes a sessionid which is used by another request while logging in.
All the sessionID are properly maintained still after logging in the next page takes me to the login page instead displaying what was done next in the recording.
When it comes to load testing of JSF-based web applications you need to take care at least of the following dynamic parameters:
JSESSIONID
javax.faces.Viewstate
JSESSIONID is a normal HTTP cookie so it is quite enough to add a HTTP Cookie Manager to deal with it
javax.faces.Viewstate is client state management mechanism which also acts as a security token to verify user's origin. So you will need to properly correlate it, i.e. extract from previous response using one of JMeter PostProcessors, store into a JMeter Variable and add as a parameter to the next request. Remember to do this for each and every request.
There might be more application specific dynamic parameters, the easiest way of detecting them is recording the same request (or scenario) 2 times, compare the recorded scripts, detect and work around the differences.