RE: Distributed testing and simple data writer

dont understand what the problem is, can you clarify? note that with distributed testing, the results should be written to file by the controller, and not by the servers -Original Message- From: Peter Peterse [mailto:pe...@peterse-uithuizen.com] Sent: 22 February 2010 15:33 To:

RE: Issue with remote server POSTing

Have you ever gotten remote testing to work? If not, then are you sending your post body data from a CSV file or similar? If so you will need (if you havent already) to put the CSV files on the remote machines as well. Hope thats some help -Original Message- From: Chuck D'Antonio

RE: how to create random alpha numeric values

This isnt really a Jmeter question. Suggest you produce the values in some external tool (maybe MS Excel), save them to a CSV file, and use CSV Data Set to read in values at each iteration Adrian -Original Message- From: sudheer reddy [mailto:gsudheer...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 August 2009

xpath extractor issue

Hi, I'm having a bit of a weird problem with an XPath Extractor in Jmeter 2.3.2 r665936. The Xpath query I am using is - //*[local-name()='MailboxItem'][*[local-name()='TransactionId']=${TX_ID}]// *[local-name()='MailboxId'] The problem seems to be with the use of the variable ${TX_ID} - this

RE: Does JMeter support these types of test cases?

Hi, Re. point #2, there's a Java Request sampler in JMeter - you can used this to orchestrate the execution of any Java code in Jmeter. Just implement the appropriate interface in your test class (see the docs), put the code on the jmeter class path and then add and configur the Java Request

RE: Recording requests with JMeter

Hi, You should not need to change how you open your webapp in the browser. I.e. you should still go to localhost:8080 in the address bar. - Adrian -Original Message- From: Carlos B. [mailto:carlosb...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 May 2009 08:52 To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re:

RE: JMeter Loadtesting Flex Parameters in request

Bert, I found your old post below, and was wondering did you have much success with the parameterization of AMF data? I am looking to test a flex application and would like to do something similar to what you have described - either parameterize AMF data on the fly or generate AMF files with

RE: Running with Increasing Stress

Hi Steve, The Ramp-up period setting for your thread group will do this for you. E.g. if you set up your thread group with 100 threads and set the ramp up period to 100 mins, JMeter will add one additional thread every minute. This only allows for linear load growth simulation, so this might be

RE: Proxy as DUT

This proxy setting is the same as the sort of proxy settings you would enter in your browser if you need to use a proxy to access the internet or network from your work computer for example. If the proxy server is the server being tested, then you should address the server directly via your

RE: Once again: remote testing problems

Hi, Not sure what your problem is, but your telnet syntax is wrong anyway. it should be telnet 172.31.112.59 1100 . If that doesn't work when run from the master (client), try the same thing from the server machine itself and see if you get the same or a different result. Also try telnet

RE: Unable to record test using HTTP Proxy Server

Hi, In internet explorer proxy settings, do you have either automatically detect settings or use automatic configuration script checked? If so, suggest you try unchecking these temporarily and see if that helps. Regards, Adrian -Original Message- From: Raj Dev

RE: HTTP response assertion apparantly not working

This may help, from a previous post (response from sebb) - On 12/01/2009, George Barnett gbarn...@atlassian.com wrote: Hi, I've got a test suite that tests for missing pages as we have a custom 404 handler which needs perf testing. I check the response to ensure the response code matches

RE: Looking for TOTAL run-time results, not per HTTP request.

Hi, I think what you want to do is group your entire test under a single transaction (not a simple) controller - this will count the total time for everything within the controller and will show average min max etc in the summary report for this transaction across all 96 iterations. - Adrian

RE: Looking for TOTAL run-time results, not per HTTP request.

iteration will just measure an elapsed time of 15 mns -Original Message- From: Fitzpatrick, Adrian Sent: 11 February 2009 14:12 To: JMeter Users List Subject: RE: Looking for TOTAL run-time results, not per HTTP request. * This e-mail has been

RE: Looking for TOTAL run-time results, not per HTTP request.

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RE: Which one is better?

Hi Farid, I've normally used the master as a controller only, and the slaves for actually running the test. However if you are short on machines, and if your master machine is powerful enough, I don't see any reason why you cant run the test on the master as well. Regards, Adrian

JMeter JWebUnit Integration - CSV Data Set

Hi, Just wondering if any has ever integrated JWebUnit scripts into JMeter, and if so have you any ideas on how we could use the CSV data set config element to update the data send by the Junit requests on each iteration? Thanks! Regards, Adrian This message has been

RE: Jmeter stops ( not hanging )

anything in jmeter.log? -Original Message- From: ziohausam [mailto:ziohau...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 January 2009 09:57 To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Jmeter stops ( not hanging ) * This e-mail has been received by the Revenue Internet

RE: Limit concurrent number of threads using Constant Throughput Timer?

Hi Pieter, If you set the number of threads to 50 instead of 3,000, you will never have more than 50 http connections. Is this sufficient? Regards, Adrian -Original Message- From: Pieter P [mailto:pie...@porthome.nl] Sent: 21 January 2009 15:39 To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org

RE: Redirects on HTTP Request

Hi David, Im afraid im not entirely sure whats wrong here. I think it something to do with the change of value of the loop controller variable that you doing within the beanshell not be picked up by the logic check of the while loop. Dont quite understand why this happens or exactly how to fix

RE: Redirects on HTTP Request

Hi David, The debug sampler will do the variable dump you describe. However ive just been messing with it and its not much help - I can see the variable values change in response to the beanshell processing, but the apparent change in value doesnt see to affect the outcome of the logic

RE: Best method for saving login tokens

Hi George, I would say best approach is to use a regular expression extractor to extract token from response into a variable, and then use that variable whereever the token is required in your script. - Adrian -Original Message- From: George Barnett [mailto:gbarn...@atlassian.com]

RE: Redirects on HTTP Request

Hi David, Interesting question! I haven't tried this, but it might be possible to achieve this something like: - Put each HTTP request sampler which can have redirects in a while loop controller, with a boolean flag controlling whether the loop should be execute. Intially set this flag to TRUE

RE: distributive testing. Slave machines can't read from .properties file

Hi, No, jmeter does not send props files, so you need to copy them to all test machines. As an alternative solution, you could map network drives and/or create shortcuts/symbolic links so that slave PCs were reading properties from the same location as (on) the master. Regards, Adrian

RE: completely different time responses

Hi Paulo, Is the test you are running quite heavy, both in terms of load applied to your server and (more to the point) load on the machine on which you are running JMeter (in terms of CPU and/or JVM memory usage)? If so one theory about what might be happening is that the aggregate report

RE: Concatenate values from a file

A small java program or unix script or word macro, etc. should be able to translate the file to the required format? -Original Message- From: Manjula Priyantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 December 2008 11:07 To: 'JMeter Users List' Subject: RE: Concatenate values from a file

RE: CSV data set and HTTP request variables

Hi, Everything you have described sounds correct to me and I dont think you are missing anything. The order shouldnt matter either. Perhaps JMeter isnt picking up your CSV file properly. Maybe check jmeter.log in the JMeter bin directory and see if there is any more info there? - Adrian

RE: Scheduler does not consider start time field

Hi, Do you have duration entered as well? If so, JMeter will ignore the times in favour of duration. Regards, Adrian -Original Message- From: Esteve Graells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2008 22:13 To: JMeter Users List Subject: Scheduler does not consider start time

RE: How to schedule a plan test to run everyday

You can potentially run your Jmeter test from the command line and then control your daily executions through an OS scheduler or similar - cron, etc. -Original Message- From: Esteve Graells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 November 2008 15:41 To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: How to

RE: Need an advice on how to share https session between test plans

Hi, Ive taken a look at this and I think I see what your issue is - its actually do to with the way you are using the Include controller (incorrectly, im afraid!!) See - http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#Include_ Controller The script you are including should

RE: Will flash be downloaded in HTTP get request?

Hi David, At the least, if Jmeter doesnt explicitly download embedded Flash objects (not sure whether it does - you should be able to confirm with a quick test)within a HTML page, you can always include an additional sampler which does a direct get for the Flash object URL. The load on the

RE: How to record HTTPS part using Proxy in JMeter?

Hi, We temporarily disable HTTPS on our application when recording our script, then re-enable it to run the script. Then you just need to go through the script and change the protocol on the secure bits from HTTP (which they will be recorded as) to HTTPS. Regards, Adrian

RE: Need an advice on how to share https session between test plans

Hi, I'll try and answer assuming your application is a J2EE web based application - if its different then this may not be correct but I think the principle should be broadly the same. Im also assuming based on your mail that you use a single JMETER thread to the set-up and tear-down steps, and

RE: Need an advice on how to share https session between test plans

Hi Ivan, Ok, I understand a bit better now I think. Am I right in thinking that if you have the set-up, main test and tear-down all in a single script then it works fine, with multiple threads running? But if you extract the set-up and tear-down into separate, included scripts then you have this

RE: can't open results in jmeter

Hi, I've seen a similar problem with CSV results files. As you are using XML files, I don't think your having the same issue but it might point you in the right direction. The problem we have was that we had assertions in our script and the result text for the assertion was included in the JTL

RE: need help

Hi, See below for answers to your questions. - Adrian -Original Message- From: Jitendra Kumar Mohanty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2008 05:29 To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: need help Hi All, I am new to Jmeter my requirements are :- 1) The script Should

RE: need help

Hi, I was not aware of that listener as its new for the version of JMeter we have just started using - thanks for that, I'll be looking into its use! As to whether this servlet and monitor can measure CPU usage - I can't comment other than to say the documentation I've just read doesn't make any

Monitor Listener - WebLogic (9.2)

Hi, Just wondering if anyone is aware if there is a version of the tomcat5 monitor servlet used by the monitor listener which has been ported to WebLogic (v9.2 if possible!)? Thanks very much. Regards, Adrian This message has been delivered to the Internet by the

RE: How to send random values from a file?

Could you just randomise the order of the CSV file before the test? -Original Message- From: Srinivasulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 October 2008 15:40 To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: How to send random values from a file? * This

RE: Building random string

Hi, Can't you generate your search parameters randomly in advance of the test, save them to a data file, and then iterate through that file over the course of your test, sending each line as a single search request? Regards, Adrian -Original Message- From: Hiro Protagonist

RE: How add validations to the test plan

Add response assertions , combine with post processor (e.g. result status action handler) if required -Original Message- From: Jose Pablo Sarco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2008 16:05 To: JMeter Users List Subject: How add validations to the test plan Hi all, I

RE: How add validations to the test plan

assertion? (Because, I want continue with the test plan if the response code is 200 or 302) Thanks!!! Jose -Original Message- From: Fitzpatrick, Adrian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Lunes, 25 de Agosto de 2008 12:15 p.m. To: JMeter Users List Subject: RE: How add validations

RE: Number of User Settings for Remote Testing

Hi, Yes you are correct, it would be 20 in your example - in general its N x number of threads in JMX file, where N is number of remote machines. Where I've found this really annoying is if you want do ramp up over time. Say you have 50 threads in the JMX and 10 machines, and you wanted to

RE: Session ID changes for a POST request

Hi, It looks to me that you may have recorded the JSESSIONID 92714... into the script when you originally created the script, so thats why its being sent with every request. If you can remove this jsession portion of the URL from you HTTP sampler, the correct JSESSION which is being included

RE: problems with JMeter and Apache Load Balancer

Hi, Jmeter shouldnt do this - each thread should have its own seperate cookies. From the help documentation for the cookie manager - Each JMeter thread has its own cookie storage area. So, if you are testing a web site that uses a cookie for storing session information, each JMeter thread will

RE: Help: Control threads throughput

Hi, Im not really clear on what you are trying to do here - can you give more detail? What are http1-3? What do you by send 60 threads? Please expand as much as possible. - Adrian -Original Message- From: Kong Tian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 August 2008 10:50 To:

RE: Newbie question

Not exactly a simple newbie question!! To the best of my knowledge, this would require some fairly complicated HTML processing which is well beyond JMeter's built in capabilities. I think you would need to code this processing externally and then integrate it into JMeter using a combination of

RE: can jmeter perform the step by step test?

To add to this - Ramp up increase tps by increasing the number of threads, so if you want to run with only one thread then its no use for you. If you can run with multiple threads, then it can be used. Also note that its a linear ramp up over the duration of your test, so the 5 to 10 to 20 over

RE: Completion time for each thread?

Hi, Just wrap all the actions performed by that threadgroup in a transaction controller. Jmeter will give a time for execution of transaction controller as a whole, which should be equivilent to the the time for the whole thead. Regards, Adrian -Original Message- From: REMIJAN,

Remote servers and ramp up

Hi all, Our JMeter testing platform consists of 7 PCs - one controller and 6 running Jmeter servers that we use for load generation. Many of the tests we run are stress tests - where we gradually increase the load over time to establish system capacity and breaking points. We use the JMeter

RE: looping through CSV data file

Hi, You could create a seperate data file for each line, named of the form JMeterDataFile1.csv, JMeterDataFile2.csv, JMeterDataFile3.csv, and so on Thenn, in your CVS Data Set Config, specify the file name as JMeterDataFile${__threadNum()}.csv. Therefore thread #1 will used

RE: Run one task, then launch threads

just put the jdbc request in a seperate thread group and either: A) If you only have one other thread group in your test, run the thread groups consequitively rather than concurrently or B) If more than one other thread group, run all thread groups other than the jdbc request one with a

RE: specification of box to host JMeter

Hi, We use a set of 1Ghz 1Gb ram wintel machines and our experience is that these can handle running about 100-150 threads per machine. Haven't pushed them much beyond that to date so that's probably not the limit for that spec. Regards, Adrian -Original Message- From: Marmelstein,

RE: specification of box to host JMeter

Actually - correction, the machines are 2.8Ghz processors :) -Original Message- From: Fitzpatrick, Adrian Sent: 25 July 2008 09:51 To: 'JMeter Users List' Subject: RE: specification of box to host JMeter Hi, We use a set of 1Ghz 1Gb ram wintel machines and our experience

RE: AMF sampler?

Hi Stephane, See the attached emails re Flex and JMeter - I have these saved off as I will need to look into this in a few months for a Flex based system we are currently building. I haven't looking into this in any detail yet however - let me know if they are of any use. Regards, Adrian

Recording/Graphing changing values over the course of a test

Hi all, Is there a good way of recording and potentially also graphing the results from the Summary Report listener, over the course of a test? To describe the situation further, what we are doing is running a test for a number of hours and ramping up the load constantly (in terms of numbers

RE: JMeter tests stops abruptly

Have you checked the JMeter logs file? If theres nothing there, I'd suggest doing some thread dumps against JMeter to see what all your threads are doing. - Adrian -Original Message- From: msmolyak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 July 2008 00:38 To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org

RE: JMS in combination with authentication

Hi, We have used the JMS sampler with authentication with WebLogic and it (nearly) works - I think what we have done should be applicable for you as well. The nearly is because we have had to open a support case with BEA on an issue we are having with JMS authorisation (i.e. after

RE: Asynchronous HTTP request

Hi, HTTP GET should return a response - can you provide a bit more detail on what you are trying to do? Rgds, Adrian -Original Message- From: Paule Zaksauskiene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 July 2008 15:06 To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Asynchronous HTTP request

RE: Asynchronous HTTP request

={java.io.Serializable:[]} The request does not return any response. Therefore, Page Info shows 0 kB. The sampler results are successful for other same style requests, which return at least one char. Thanks, Paule -Original Message- From: Fitzpatrick, Adrian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 July

Response Assertion applied to Controller - issue with images

Hi, I have a large number of JMeter thread groups that step through 10 - 20 pages in our application. I want to add a general assertion for our error page (looking for the text titleError/title), such that the sample is flagged as a failure if the error page shows up when requesting any page.