Testing web services on AWS using jmeter - getting 403 forbidden error

2013-10-03 Thread nmq
Hi everyone I have to test the performance of a web service that's residing on AWS. I have been given a url by the developer, that looks like this: https://xxx.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/example/InvestorDataService.svc?wsdl I also have the security certificate in pfx format. After reading the u

HTTP request - Implementation

2013-07-18 Thread nmq
Hi everyone I've read what the reference document says about the Implementation drop-down in HTTP Request sampler. I still don't get what is this selection's significance on test runs? Can anyone elaborate? Regards Sam

why am i getting these errors?

2013-07-03 Thread nmq
I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me why I'm getting the following errors with an embedded resource when it is requested by jmeter. The error is in response to a request for .css and in another sampler a .js. And it happens intermittently, not consistently. The number of threads is o

Connection timeout Error

2013-07-03 Thread nmq
I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me why I'm getting the following error when an embedded resource is retrieved with my sampler. The error is in response to a request for .css and in another sampler a .js. And it happens intermittently, not consistently. I have added a cache manager

Re: Establishing baseline metrics

2013-07-02 Thread nmq
Sorry, I just hit reply instead of directing my question. This is in response to Deepak S's comment: *"Ill also add that the times are usually as seen by the end user - so the times as seen by Jmeter usually have to be lesser (since these are max times you need to consider empty cache for first ti

Re: Establishing baseline metrics

2013-07-02 Thread nmq
e development phase and establish our baseline using the current > > response > > >times? > > No! you have to determine the times you want(as above) and see that your > > current response satisfies those (suppose your current page takes 60 > > seconds are you satisf

Re: Establishing baseline metrics

2013-07-02 Thread nmq
to use 'real data'. We actually download our > >> production database every weekend, and strip out any 'personal > >> information' (stuff that we protect in our production environment) by > >> either nulling it out, or replacing it with bogus data. This allows

Establishing baseline metrics

2013-07-01 Thread nmq
Hi all This is not a JMeter specific questions but since this user list comprises of experts in performance testing, I figured it would be a good place to ask this question. My question is how do you establish baselines for a website's performance if you do not have any historic data? Lets say t

Re: Is there a way to set the duration for which JMeter waits for a response

2013-06-20 Thread nmq
mponent_reference.html#Thread_Group > You rarely want to stop the thread though - you usually just want it to > skip the rest of the steps of that test and move onto the next data item > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM, nmq wrote: > > > I googled this but didn't find anythi

Is there a way to set the duration for which JMeter waits for a response

2013-06-20 Thread nmq
I googled this but didn't find anything. Is there a way to force JMeter to terminate the current thread and move on to another if an HTTP Sampler receives no response for a certain amount of time? This is a situation where there was no response whatsoever for over an hour and JMeter kept waiting fo

Re: CSRF

2013-06-19 Thread nmq
questions is that is there a way to pass this parameter (CSRF value) for all samplers instead of setting it under each HTTP Request individually? Regards Sam On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:43 PM, nmq wrote: > Yes, regex and cookies. > > The information given in "Logging in" sect

Re: CSRF

2013-06-19 Thread nmq
tters? > > On Thursday, June 20, 2013, nmq wrote: > > I figured it out. Took a lot of googling and reading blogs, but I got it > to > > work. > > Thanks for your help > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Madhu Sekhar >wrote: > > > &

Re: CSRF

2013-06-19 Thread nmq
Jun 19, 2013 at 8:49 PM, nmq wrote: > > > Yes, it changes. > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Madhu Sekhar > >wrote: > > > > > Does the below value in the script change for every session/login? > > > > > > 'f3e88

Re: CSRF

2013-06-19 Thread nmq
Yes, it changes. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Madhu Sekhar wrote: > Does the below value in the script change for every session/login? > > 'f3e8822f-3b26- > 48fd-b1ff-6c80742fe28f > > Thanks, > Madhu > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:22 PM, nmq wrote: &g

CSRF

2013-06-19 Thread nmq
Hi All I've run into an issue. Our development team made some changes yesterday and today I'm getting an error "Error 401--Unauthorized" response for an HTTP request. I examined the responses in Fiddler and I noticed this in the head tag. $.setCSRFNonce('f3e8822f-3b26-48fd-b1ff-6c80742fe28f');

Re: Login failed - javascript

2013-06-12 Thread nmq
to try and figure out how to do this. Thanks Sam On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:29 AM, nmq wrote: > Thanks guys. > > I was able to log in finally. Tried a lot of stuff, but what worked was > unchecking "redirect automatically" on the HTTP samplers. I would like to >

Re: Login failed - javascript

2013-06-12 Thread nmq
ume that the JavaScript warning makes a difference > since you are looking at the response in a tool (the Tree Listener) that > doesn't execute the JavaScript, and never will. > > -- > Robin D. Wilson > VOICE: 512-777-1861 > > > > On Jun 11, 2013, at 9:41 PM, nmq

Re: Login failed - javascript

2013-06-11 Thread nmq
ith your developers (maybe it's just a bug in their > > code?). If the recorded proxy script works normally, then you have a > > problem in your JMeter test plan setup - and you can use the > > proxy requests to figure out what is missing from your test plan. > &g

Re: Login failed - javascript

2013-06-11 Thread nmq
I meant they're encoding the request using javascript. Should I have a talk with the developers? Problem is they're offshore *sigh*. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:27 PM, nmq wrote: > Hi Deepak > > Thanks for all that info. I installed fiddler quickly. > > This is wha

Re: Login failed - javascript

2013-06-11 Thread nmq
s your > default HTTP Header Manager for your tests. You can also see > what sort of interactions are taking place between the browser and the > server - some of which may be under-the-covers (hidden from > the user) and allowing the server to figure out whether the site supports > JavaS

Login failed - javascript

2013-06-11 Thread nmq
Hi everyone I have run into an issue running my basic login script for the AUT. It was working fine till we got a new build this week. Now, I have been a functional tester my whole career. My company wanted me to do some performance test for them and I figured why the heck not. I'll learn along t

Re: Measuring page load / rendering time

2013-06-11 Thread nmq
ould be a terrific next step. > > Sam, would you be so kind as to keep us appraised of what you're doing? > > Best regards, > > Bo > > > -Original Message- > From: nmq [mailto:nmq0...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 7:48 AM > To: JMeter Users

Re: Measuring page load / rendering time

2013-06-10 Thread nmq
evaluate what will be the most probable user experience > > > during > > > high traffic and then improve that. Its the best thing you can do, and > > the > > > only honest approach to this problem. You can still make measurement > > > taking > > > several sampl

Measuring page load / rendering time

2013-06-06 Thread nmq
Hi everyone I have been told that JMeter does not measure page load or rendering time. Does anyone know of a roundabout way of making approximations using JMeter, which would be fairly close to actual times. Or if anyone knows of a better tool that can be used to achieve this? The AUT is a secur