How to insert delay between each requests in Jmeter - jmeter

I wanted to execute a Test Plan as Below.
Example : I wanted every http request should take delay of two minutes
http_request_1,
delay (2 minutes)
http_request_2
All request are in same thread group

Create a transaction controller in Thread group
put all your http requests under this transaction controller
add constant timer (with value as 2 min) to transaction controller
(this way it will be applicable to all request within that transaction controller)
run your jmeter script
or if only 2 request are there then add only 1 constant timer in between both the requests.

The simplest way is to add a single 'Constant Timer' to your thread group at the same level as your HTTP requests.
Right click Thread Group > Add > Timer > Constant Timer.
Set the timer value to however many milliseconds you need (in your case 120000), and it inserts a delay between all requests in that thread group.

Create a transaction controller in Thread group
put all your http requests under this transaction controller
add constant timer (with value as 2 min - please find the 2nd screen-shot) to transaction controller
(this way it will be applicable to all request within that transaction controller)
run your jmeter script
or if only 2 request are there then add only 1 constant timer in between both the requests. Please find below screen-shot

Related

run a thread group after specific time

I am running one scenario for 2 hours in which I am using service which generates the cookie.. and that cookie is getting expired after 30 minutes.
So I want to create a thread group which will run after 30 minutes so that new cookie will get replace with old cookies.
You can setup another thread group with a 30min startup delay.
Add a constant timer with 30min to ensure the delay after the first execution.
Best approach could be to check the expiry with a If Controller and add the requests within the if controller.
To make this simple
Create a thread group with number of threads as 1 with ramp up as 1 second.
Create a loop controller and add loop count as 4.
Create your request under this loop controller and also add constant timer as child of your request as shown below :
Execution flow will be:
First request will get executed . Once this first request gets a response from the server, it will wait for 30 mins. Then this loops again 4 times. You can control the number of execution in the loop count.
The options are in:
Just specify "Startup delay" for the Thread Group:
Add Flow Control Action sampler as the first sampler in the Thread Group and configure it to pause for the half and hour:
Use custom thread group like Ultimate Thread Group (can be installed as a part of Custom Thread Groups bundle using JMeter Plugins Manager) where you can precisely define when and how to start threads:

Sending multiple http requests in JMeter, then pausing for some amount of time for firing executions again

I want to send 70000 http requests in JMeter, but I want to do it such that I send 50 requests in one go, then pause for around 6 mins, then send the next 50 and so on until I hit a total of 70000 requests
So far, I have tried a couple different configurations to try this, for eg.
- Thread group (with number of threads = 1, Ramp-up period = 1, Loop Count = 1400)
- Loop Controller (Loop count = 50)
- HTTP Request
- HTTP Header Manager
- Constant Timer (Thread Delay (in milliseconds) = 600000)
But this doesn't seem to work. This just seems to fire one request every 1 min (or 600000 milliseconds).
I have also tried
- Thread group (with number of threads = 1, Ramp-up period = 1, Loop Count = 1400)
- Loop Controller (Loop count = 50)
- HTTP Request
- HTTP Header Manager
- Constant Timer (Thread Delay (in milliseconds) = 600000)
But it gives me the same result.
JMeter's elements are all about scopes and execution hierarchy. In order to achieve your goal, you can place your timer in 2 ways
Use "Flow Action Control" Sampler after your HTTP request or in the scope of your Loop Controller or under the scope of your Thread Group (right click on thread group and select "Add Think Times to Children"
Place the timer inside the HTTP Request before which you want the Timer to be executed
Sample Screenshots
Flow Action Sampler
Timer inside a sampler
Why you are facing an issue
Basically below is the hierarchy in which JMeter executes your elements
Configuration Elements
Pre-Processors
Timers
Samplers
Post-Processors
Assertions
Listeners
Source: https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/test_plan.html#executionorder
Since timers have a higher execution priority than samplers, they are bound to get executed before a sampler gets executed. In your particular case, you have placed your timer in the scope of both Loop Controller & Thread Group and hence it is getting executed before each element.
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 Flow Control Action Sampler.
Source: https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#timers
How the suggested solution works from Timer perspective
Since I am placing the Timer inside a sampler, it gets invoked only before that particular sampler executes. Hence we avoid the timer being applied to every other element
Also, Flow Action Sampler is a sampler itself and hence it gets executed only in the sequential manner and hence when you place it after your respective HTTP request, it will execute only at that instance and hence it will act as expected
How to be used in your Test Plan
With Loop Controller
For my example I am taking a scenario where I simulate 50 requests, wait for 10 seconds and trigger the next bunch of 50 until 500 requests are reached
Added the Flow Action Sampler inside my loop controller
Defined 50 Threads for my sample test
Loop count in Loop controller is 10
Once I trigger the test, during the first second, all my 50 users have ramped up and triggered 50 requests and are now waiting for 10 second duration. Notice the number of samples, thread count and time
During the 7th iteration, 350 requests have been completed and they are about to reach 70th second
At the end of the test, I have 500 requests. Expectation from my test scenario is that post burst of 50 requests, wait for 10 seconds and continue this pattern for 10 iterations. Hence at the end of the test (~100 seconds later), I will have 500 samples completed.
Without Loop Controller
Follow similar test plan as defined with loop controller, only difference being, non-existence of the loop controller and loop count in Thread Group will be defined as 10
In either case, Flow Action Sampler has 10 seconds as Pause time
Hope this helps!

Run same Jmeter thread group after certain interval

I am trying to run the same thread group after a certain interval. Example -
JMeter will run thread group A and execute all http requests inside it and let's say for example after 20 sec it will run thread group A again and this loop should carry on until I manually stop the script.
What I have designed right now is something like this-
Thread Group A
While Controller (I gave some condition so that it is always true)
Http request 1
Http request 2
Constant timer (20sec)
but this only puts 20sec delay between each http call.
Replace Constant Timer with the Test Action sampler, keep all defaults and set "Duration" to 20000 milliseconds
Add Syncrhonizing Timer as a child of the Test Action sampler and set "Number of Simultaneous Users to Group by" to be equal to the number of threads in your Thread Group
That's it, synchronizing timer will act as a "rendezvous" point so all your virtual users meet there and wait for 20 seconds together.
You might also be interested in How to Easily Implement Pacing in JMeter in order to be able to configure more complex delay scenarios

Set time gap/timer between 'foreach controller' requests in Jmeter

Set time gap/timer between 'foreach controller' requests.
We have a below scenario:
Login single user>click question multiple times
To achieve above scenario in Jmeter used below Test Plan:
ThreadGroup - 1 user, 1 ramp up period, 1 loop
-HTTP request to login
-Questionslist - RegExp to get list of questions with -1
-ForEach Controller - 100 times loop count
--HTTP request
When 'Timer' is set under 'ForEach controller' doesn't actually considered this timer value (ex: 2000 milliseconds)
Please guide how to have time gap between 'ForEach controller' http request.
Actually Constant Timer should work however you will not see this delay anywhere as by default the duration of PreProcessors, Post-Processors and Timers is not included into Sampler time.
You could put your HTTP Request and the Timer under Transaction Controller and configure it to:
Generate Parent Sample
Include duration of timer and pre-post processors in generated sample
This way you will get Timer time (2 seconds) added to your Sample Result.
However above approach is on per-user basis, it means that each virtual user will have a 2-second delay between HTTP Request. If you would like to have 2 seconds of absolutely idle time, i.e. when no requests are being made at all you can add a Test Action sampler after HTTP Request sampler and configure it to produce a 2000 ms delay. Also put Synchronizing Timer as a child of the Test Action sampler and set Number of Simultaneous Users to Group by to be equal to the number of virtual users in Thread Group - this way Test Action sampler will act as a rendezvous point and all the virtual users will "meet" there to "sleep" together for 2 seconds.

I want to use think time (wait time) IN B/W 2 TRANSACTION CONTROLLER (request)

Constant timer I used but I confused with the execution of contestant timer. there are many request under one TR Controller so If I use contestant timer the given time will apply to all request of TR Controller.
Which Jmeter timer and how I should use to it in the real scenario while execution of jmeter execute.and make sure it should be exclude to the response time.
Pl see the below Image and imagine this is the my scenario.
Thanks a lot in advance
Please find the below screen shot to use the constant timer for each and every request.
You can use the constant timer for the services which ever you want.
Try this where ever you need to add the think time and execute, it will consider only for the requests(where ever you add that timer).
If you add it to the TR controller it will consider the think time for every request under controller.
The simple one is add a constant timer value 5000 at the level of HTTP Samplers
Thread Group
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>LogIn
>DashBoard
>Click On details Link
>Info Page
If above is Your Test plan
then Right click on ThreadGroup-->Add-->Timer-->constant Timer and provide value 5000
In this case the constant timer acts between each http request your are sending
i.e., it sends Login and waits for 5 seconds and it sends Login action and waits for 5 seconds and it sends Dashboard page and waits for 5 seconds and on and on ..
Note : The constant timer element must be sibling to HTTP sampler , but not as a CHILD.
please let me know if you required further info on this .If it helps click answered

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