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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

Dealing with file downloads

It is not uncommon to come across scenarios where you need to simulate downloading a file or multiple files from an external server when recording your test scripts. JMeter provides the ability to record and play back file downloads.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will cover how to use JMeter in a file download scenario. Perform the following steps:

  1. Launch JMeter.
  2. Add Thread Group to the new test plan by navigating to Test Plan | Add | Threads (Users) | Thread Group.
  3. Add the HTTP Request sampler by navigating to Thread Group | Add | Sampler | HTTP Request.
  4. Fill in its attributes in the following way:
    • Server Name or IP: docs.spring.io
    • Method: GET
    • Path: /spring-data/jpa/docs/1.5.x/reference/pdf/spring-data-jpa-reference.pdf
  5. Add the View Results Tree listener to the test plan by navigating to Test Plan | Add | Listener | View Results Tree.
  6. Add Save Responses to the file listener of your test script by navigating to Test plan | Add | Listener | Save Responses to file...
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