Visual Studio Team services - load testing - JMeter - path to supporting files - jmeter

Question

I'd like to use Visual Studio Team Services to run load testing plan written in JMeter in cloud. In my test I have to upload file.
I guess I should attach this file to 'Supporting files' field, but I have no idea what is the path to this file. There are error message:
HttpError Non HTTP response code: java.io.FileNotFoundException Agent000 | Thread Group | Upload | Non HTTP response message: test.xml (The system cannot find the file specified)
I've tried some paths which I found in log, eg: E:\approot\JMeterLoadTest\, but there are error anyway.
What is the path to file added to 'Supporting files'? Has anybody had similiar problem?

Answer 1

You can define "User Defined Variables" and use BeanShell.
<Arguments guiclass="ArgumentsPanel" testclass="Arguments" testname="User Defined Variables" enabled="true">
<collectionProp name="Arguments.arguments">
<elementProp name="testURL" elementType="Argument">
<stringProp name="Argument.name">testURL</stringProp>
<stringProp name="Argument.value">www.datafilehost.com</stringProp>
<stringProp name="Argument.metadata">=</stringProp>
</elementProp>
<elementProp name="testFile" elementType="Argument">
<stringProp name="Argument.name">testFile</stringProp>
<stringProp name="Argument.value">upload.txt</stringProp>
<stringProp name="Argument.metadata">=</stringProp>
</elementProp>
<elementProp name="scriptPath" elementType="Argument">
<stringProp name="Argument.name">scriptPath</stringProp>
<stringProp name="Argument.value">${__BeanShell(import org.apache.jmeter.services.FileServer; FileServer.getFileServer().getBaseDir();)}${__BeanShell(File.separator,)}</stringProp>
<stringProp name="Argument.metadata">=</stringProp>
</elementProp>
</collectionProp>
</Arguments>
and than you can load file from your base dir:
<elementProp name="HTTPsampler.Files" elementType="HTTPFileArgs">
<collectionProp name="HTTPFileArgs.files">
<elementProp name="${scriptPath}${testFile}" elementType="HTTPFileArg">
<stringProp name="File.path">${scriptPath}${testFile}</stringProp>
<stringProp name="File.paramname">upfile</stringProp>
<stringProp name="File.mimetype">text/plain</stringProp>
</elementProp>
</collectionProp>
</elementProp>
Full sample:
https://github.com/aliesbelik/jmx/blob/master/so/2015-04-15_file-upload-download.jmx