Building an Advanced Web Test Plan

Wiki MarkupIn this section, you will learn how to create advanced Test Plans to test a Web site. For an example of a basic Test Plan, see \[:../BuildWebTest: Building a Web Test Plan\]..

Handling User Sessions With URL Rewriting

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To respond correctly to URL rewriting, JMeter needs to parse the HTML received from the server and retrieve the unique session ID. Use the appropriate HTTP URL Re-writing Modifier to accomplish this. Simply enter the name of your session ID parameter into the modifier, and it will find it and add it to each request. If the request already has a value, it will be replaced.

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\[http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/demos/URLRewritingExample.jmx Download\] this example . In Figure 1 is shown a test plan using URL rewriting. Note that the URL Re-writing modifier is attached to the [ThreadGroup], thus assuring that it will affect every request in that [ThreadGroup].

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^{Figure 1 - Test Tree}

In Figure 2, we see the URL Re-writing modifier GUI, which just has a field for the user to specify the name of the session ID parameter. There is also a checkbox for indicating that the session ID should be part of the path (separated by a ";"), rather than a request parameter

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^{Figure 2 - Request parameters}

Using a Header Manager

The HTTP Header Manager lets you customize what information JMeter sends in the HTTP request header. This header includes properties like "User-Agent", "Pragma", "Referer", etc.

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