Hello Flavio,
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. You helped me get a bit further, but
not quite to the point I was hoping to get. Let my try to clarify a bit more on
what I'm trying to achieve:
- our software accepts an 'about' parameter, and when passed and equal to 1, it
will display a nice 'about'-page, with company logo, etc, -and- the hostname of
the server
- in a typical installation of the software, there is a whole bunch of servers
that run that accept that parameter, displaying the 'about'-page
- I created the following simple Test Plan:
Test Plan
+ Thread Group
++ HTTP Request Defaults
++ HTTP Request
+++ Response Assertion
+++ View Results Tree
I have now idea whether I'm trying to achieve something really useful, but the
idea is to be able to repeat the same Test Plan for different hosts. Using Test
Plan variables using the techniques you described works beautifully for
achieving this, except that I would like to include the selected hostname in
the Test Pattern configured in the Response Assertion. In the Response
Assertion I basically put the 'about'-page that should be send by the server,
but that server is variable, hence the pattern should change when the host is
different. I tried simply writing ${myHost1} inside the pattern, with and
without the '$' escaped, but that didn't do the trick.
Is there a trick to achieve this? Or is it nonsense anyway (a viable
possibility, me being a complete newby when it comes to this kind of testing)
Sincerely,
Jakob van Bethlehem
On 5 mrt. 2013, at 13:15, Flavio Cysne <flaviocy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome, Jakob.
>
> As a starting point I suggest you reading the Best Practices advice (
> http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/best-practices.html ).
>
> At first, before capturing the script, add an HTTP Request Defaults
> configuration component and fill in the fields host, port, HTTP
> implementation, protocol and content encoding.
> Before capturing, add as many Test Plan variables as the hosts you are
> testing against (I suppose you are already doing this).
>
> The first will ensure that any HTTP request captured by JMeter proxy, that
> have the same parameters, will follow the defaults (fields inside HTTP
> Request sampler will be left blank).
> The second will help you to parameterize some of the Request Headers
> parameters. Ex.: Host and Referer parameters.
>
> After capturing you could change Host field in HTTP Request defaults with a
> Test Plan variable.
>
> Test Plan variables that are subject to change should have their values
> defined like this: ${__P(myHost1,my.host1.com)}
> myHost1 = parameter passed on command line: jmeter -n -t myTestPlan.jmx
> -JmyHost1=my.alternative.host
> my.host1.com = default variable value if myHost1 parameter is not passed
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