JMeter Tutorial — Script Recording
To carry out Load/Performance testing on any web-app, first, the tester has to understand the traffic communication of the web-app and the server. For this, we use script recorder in JMeter to capture the network traffic.
To do so, follow the following steps:
Step 1 — Start JMeter.
Step 2 — Create a Thread Group from Add -> Thread (Users) by right-clicking the Test Plan.
Step 3 — Create a Recording Controller from Add -> Logic Controller section by right-clicking the Thread Group.
Step 4 — Create a HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder from Add -> Non-Test Elements by right-clicking the Test Plan.
Step 5 — Configure the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder by setting the port as 8888 and check ‘Start/Stop’ checkbox.
Step 6 — Configure proxy to ‘localhost’ and port ‘8888’ in the web browser.
Step 7 — Start the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder by clicking ‘Start’ button in JMETER.
Step 8 — Navigate to the web app under test and perform the desired actions.
Step 9 — Stop the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder.
Step 10 — Now, the recorded requests can be observed under the Recording Controller. We can use this recorded script for Load/Performance testing.
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