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JMeter Cookbook

You're reading from   JMeter Cookbook 70 insightful and practical recipes to help you successfully use Apache JMeter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783988280
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. JMeter Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Handling Responses 3. Building Robust Test Plans with Controllers 4. Testing Services 5. Diving into Distributed Testing 6. Extending JMeter 7. Building, Debugging, and Analyzing the Results of Test Plans 8. Beyond the Basics A. Installing the Supporting Software Needed for this Book Index

Using Throughput Shaping Timer


Sometimes, stakeholders give you a projected target for several components within the system under load. For example, you might be told that at peak hours, the reporting module of an application receives high volumes of traffic, while the product viewing module receives much less traffic. With the help of network engineers, you will be able to come up with the number of requests per second during peak and off-peak hours for various modules within the application under test. However, once you have such numbers, it becomes increasingly difficult to tweak thread groups and timer delay settings within JMeter to simulate a targeted requests per second (RPS) value for the modules. This is exactly what the Throughput Shaping Timer component is for. It allows you to easily control a targeted RPS more easily.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will show you how to leverage the Throughput Shaping Timer component in test plans. Perform the following steps:

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