Prerequisites:

Jmeter application is installed

Jmeter plugins installed:
o JMeter Plugins Manager (installation instructions here: https://jmeter-
plugins.org/wiki/PluginsManager/)
Below plugins can be installed Plugins Manager from Jmeter
o jpgc - Standard Set
o JMXMon Sample Collector
o PerfMon (Servers Performance Monitoring)
Your browser is configured to use JMeter Proxy

Configure your browser to use the JMeter Proxy

For below exercises we will use Mozilla Firefox. You may use other browsers but for that you will
need to configure it to use JMeter proxy.
Open Firefox > Open Option > Advanced > Select Network > Click on Settings (under
Connections) > Select Manual Proxy Configuration
HTTP proxy should have localhost value and Port: 8080 (you may use other port if 8080 is in
use).
Use this proxy server for all protocols option must be checked
Click OK and close mozilla firefox

Notes:

about same steps can be followed for other browsers.

disable manual proxy configuration once you are done with Jmeter to be able to access
internet connection again.

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 Basic Instructions

Start JMeter
- Go to JMETER_HOME/bin and start JMeter with jmeterw.cmd or jmeter.bat on Windows
and jmeter.sh on Linux/Unix
- JMETER_HOME is location where you unpacked the apache jmeter archive
Start ServerAgent
- Go to ServerAgent location on the disk and start it with startAgent.bat on Windows and
startAgent.sh on Linux/Unix

Exercise 1: The exercise presented by Ancuta during the class (with blazemeter
demo site)

1. Start JMeter
2. Select Test Plan on the tree
3. Right click on the Test Plan and add new thread group: Add > Threads (Users) > jp@gc
Stepping Thread Group

4. Right click on the jp@gc Stepping Thread Group and add a new controller: Add > Logic
Controller > Recording Controller

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5. Select WorkBench
6. Right click on WorkBench and add the recorder: Add > Non-Test Elements > HTTP(S) Test Script
Recorder

7. Set global settings: Click on HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder, on the right panel set
port number (the value should be the same with the one provided during proxy settings in
browser)
HTTP Domains to localhost
Target Controller: Test Plan > jp@gc Stepping Thread Group > Random Controller

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 Proceed with recording
8. Pres Start button from bottom of the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder
9. Open Firefox
10. Access http://blazedemo.com
11. Click on Find Flights button (optional you may select different departure city and destination
city)
12. Choose a flight and press Choose This Flight button
13. Go to the reservation page and click Purchase Flight button (optional you may introduce our
data in the reservation page form)
14. Close browser
15. Stop recording
Recording is now complete. You should be able to find all calls recorded (in this scenario you
should have 4)

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 Prepare the test for execution

16. Select and configure jp@gc - Stepping Thread Group as in below image (please do not add more
than 5 users, you will be banned)

17. Right click Add > Listener > Aggregate Report to add a aggregate report listener

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18. Right click Add > Listener > jp@gc - Response Times Over Time to add an aggregate report
listener

19. Right click Add > Listener > jp@gc - PerfMon Metrics Collector.
20. Click on jp@gc - PerfMon Metrics Collector
21. Click on Add Row and add following metric to collect:
- CPU User
- CPU System
- Memory Used (select megabytes)
- Network I/O rx,
- Network I/O, tx

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22. Save the Test Plan. I recommend to create a folder where to store the test plans.
23. Start ServerAgent if this is not started the test will have a lot of errors. If you have issues with
it you should disable jp@gc - PerfMon Metrics Collector (right click on it and select disable)

Execute the test

24. Press Start button (green ones). The test will run for 1 minute and 18 seconds.

During the test execution you may access from time to time the Aggregate report, jp@gc -
Response Times Over Time and jp@gc - PerfMon Metrics Collector. You will see live data and
graph.

Tips:

Pressing CTRL+E will clean up the results for a new test

You may save the test results and watch them later
Save the test plan often to avoid losing work
Play with data collected during the tests: i.e. for PerfMon Metrics yo may go to Rows tab
and select only networking and you will see how the traffic grows during the test.

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Exercise: How would you report the data collected? Can you give us details about the server
response time and client resource utilization?

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