JMeter steps for beginners

JMeter steps

The first step you want to do with every JMeter Test Plan is to add a Thread Group element. The Thread Group tells JMeter the number of users you want to simulate, how often the users should send requests, and the how many requests they should send.

• First select the Test Plan, clicking your right mouse button to get the Add menu, and then select Add --> ThreadGroup.

• Click your right mouse button to get the Add menu, and then select Add --> Config Element --> HTTP Request Defaults. Then, select this new element to view its Control Panel
• Right click on the “Thread Group” and add a recording controller: Add > Logic Controller >

Recording Controller

• Next, select WorkBench
• Right click on WorkBench and add the Http proxy: Add -> Non-Test Elements -> HTTP

Proxy Server

• Return to HTTP Proxy Server, and click the “Start” button at the bottom.

Configure your brower to use the JMeter HTTP Proxy:

At this point, JMeter's proxy is running. For this exercise, we will use Iceweasel/Firefox to

view some pages on JMeter.

• Start Iceweasel/Firefox, but do not close JMeter.
• From the tool bar, click “Edit -> Preferences” (or “Tools > Preferences”). This should bring

up the options.

• Select the “Advanced” tab, and “Network” tab
• Click “Settings” button near the bottom

On the new popup, check “Manual proxy configuration”. The address and port fields

should be enabled now.

• Address – enter “localhost” or the IP address of your system
• Port – enter “8080”.

Record your navigation

• With your brower, in the “Address” bar at the top, enter
• “http://jmeter.apache.org/index.html” and hit the “enter” key.
• Click on a few links on JMeter's pages.
• Close your browser and bring up the JMeter window.
• Click stop in “HTTP Proxy Server”
• Expand the thread group and there should be several samplers.

• Select “Thread Group”
• Right click “Add -> Listener -> Summary Report” to add an summary listener.

The summary listener will show some basic statistics.

Start the test

At this point, we are ready to run our test plan and see what happens. Save the test plan.

When you're ready to run the test, there's two ways:

1. Run -> Start

2. Ctrl–R

Before you start the test, select “Summary Report”. As the test runs, the statistics will change

until the test is done. At the end of the test, the summary report should look like this.

While the test is running, in the upper right-hand corner, there should be a green square.

When the test is done, the box should be grey.