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JMeter Basic Authentication

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I’ve found through debugging requests coming in from JMeter that the HTTP Authorization Manager module doesn’t encode the username and password correctly. It puts a newline character after the username. To run a JMeter test against a Basic Auth protected endpoint, include the HTTP Header Manager and add the Basic Auth header yourself: Manually Encoding … Read more

SSLHandshakeException while connecting to a https site

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SSLlabs is apparently testing “out of the box” support. Java crypto has a crock dating back to the 1990s when the US government severely restricted export of crypto software, and as a result the JRE (or JDK) as distributed by then-Sun now-Oracle does not permit use of 256-bit symmetric encryption, which your server is demanding. … Read more

Write extracted data to a file using jmeter

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Just solved a similar problem. After getting the data using a regular expression extractor, add a BeanShell PostProcessor element. Use the code below to write the variables to a file: name = vars.get(“name”); email = vars.get(“email”); log.info(email); // if you want to log something to jmeter.log file // Pass true if you want to append … Read more

JMeter : How to record HTTPS traffic?

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Starting from JMeter 3.0 default port for the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder is 8888 The easiest way to configure recording is using JMeter Templates feature. From JMeter’s main menu select: File -> Templates -> Recording -> Create Don’t forget to start the recorder : In JMeter < 4.0, Expand “Workbench”, if >= 4.0, ignore this … Read more

Running Selenium scripts with JMeter

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Below are possible ways to run Selenium test-cases from JMeter: using JUnit Request Sampler; using BeanShell Sampler; using JSR223 Sampler + Groovy. JUnit Request Sampler Running Selenium tests this way maybe useful if you want to re-use already automated (Java) Selenium scenarios instead of re-writing JS-scripts for WebDriver Sampler. Selenium RC Prepare Selenium test project … Read more

What is the highest number of threads that is reasonable to simultaneously run in Jmeter?

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JMeter can simulate a very High Load provided you use it right. Don’t listen to Urban Legends that say JMeter cannot handle high load. Now as for answer, it depends on: your machine power your jvm 32 bits or 64 bits your jvm allocated memory -Xmx your test plan ( lot of beanshell, post processor, … Read more