Question about JMeter constant timers

Hello,

I'd like to make something like this with JMeter :
Request 1, Request 2, Request 3, wait 30 seconds, Request 1, Request 2,
Request 3, wait 30 seconds, Request 1, Request 2...

How can I do that ?

If I do :
Test Plan
|--- Thread group
       |--- Loop Controller
              |--- Request 1
              |      |--- Constant Timer (30000)
              |--- Request 2
              |--- Request 3
I have the 30 seconds pause between Request 3 and Request 1 but I also have
a 30 seconds pause before the first Request 1.
I would like to avoid this first pause.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards

PS : I got problem to post this message. Sorry if it ever appears several times.


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You could either duplicate the requests prior to the loop controller so
the first time through your delay isn't a part, or you could use the
sleep sampler (the Java Request + SleepTest class).  Neither solution is
ideal, I know.

-Mike

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 11:50 +0000, PiRanha wrote:


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> You could either duplicate the requests prior to the loop controller so
> the first time through your delay isn't a part, or you could use the
> sleep sampler (the Java Request + SleepTest class).  Neither solution is
> ideal, I know.
> -Mike

Thanks Mike.
I think I will use the SleepTest class because I don't like the idea of
duplicating tests (maintenance issue).

However I have another question : is there a way for a sampler not to be
displayed in the results (by the different listeners) ?
I'd like the timers I make with SleepTest class not to be reported since
they don't correspond to real tests.

Regards.
PiRanha




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You could filter it out based on scoping:

Test-Plan
   ThreadGroup
      LoopControl
         SimpleController
            Request 1
            Request 2
            Request 3
            Listener 1
            Listener 2
         SleepTest

In the above test plan, results from SleepTest would not appear to the
two listeners because it's not in their scoping.

It would be nice to have filtering based on sampler name, but such
doesn't currently exist in JMeter (sounds like a good, simple
enhancement request).

-Mike

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:40 +0200, PiRanha wrote:


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Thanks for your answer Mike.
In fact this is what I have done :)

But filtering features would be effectively a good thing.
Because if you want to make 2 loops like the one you described above it is
impossible to have a global report for the tests made in the two different
loops (see example below).

Test-Plan
   ThreadGroup 1
      LoopControl 2
         SimpleController 1
            Request 1
            Request 2
            Request 3
            Listener 1
            Listener 2
         SleepTest 1
   ThreadGroup 2
      LoopControl 2
         SimpleController 2
            Request 4
            Request 5
            Request 6
            Listener 1b
            Listener 2b
         SleepTest 2

In this example we cannot define the Listeners 1 & 2 (that are identical to
Listeners 1b & 2b) at the Test Plan level to get the results of the all
tests in a same table without including the SleepTest samplers.

Filtering could be done at two different levels :
- at the listener level : the user could exclude some samplers from the
scope of the listener
- at the sampler level : a checkbox could be selected to exclude the sampler
from the scope of all the listeners

At last, since we talk about features requests for samplers and listeners I
think it would be nice too if it was possible to regroup several results in
only one result. So, assuming the following Test Plan :

Test-Plan
   ThreadGroup
         SimpleController 1
            Request 1
            Request 2
         SimpleController 2
            Request 3
            Request 4
         Listener

It would be great to optionally get in the listener only the agregated
results for SimpleController 1 & SimpleController 2 (not the detailed for
Requests 1-2-3-4). For instance, if Requests 1 & 2 succeeded in T1 & T2
seconds Listener could report a success in T1+T2 seconds. If Request 3
succeeded in T3 seconds and Request 4 failed in T4 seconds the report could
be a 'Failed' for SimpleController 2 in T3+T4 seconds.

Regards
PiRanha




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