JMeter Add samplers

Samplers tell JMeter send a request to a server.  JMeter provides number of samplers to send requests. To send HTTP request, you can use HTTP sampler, to send FTP request, you can use FTP sampler. Some of the samplers supported by JMeter are FTP, HTTP, JDBC, Java object request, LDAP, SOAP/XML-RPC Request, WebService (SOAP) Request.

By default JMeter sends the request to the server, in the order of samples configured in Test Plan tree.

Add HTTP Request sampler to Thread Group

Right click on Thread Group -> Add -> Sampler -> HttpRequest

HTTP Request sampler panel looks like following

Following are the important fields in HTTP Request sampler panel.

1.Server Name or IP

It must set to server name, where JMeter send the requests.

2. Port Number

By default port number considered as 80, If your sever listening on different port set to specific port.

3. HTTP Request

This section is used to specify request type (GET, POST, HEAD etc.,) and content encoding, HTTP Client.

4. Path

Specifies the path to the resource.

5. Parameters, Body Data

This section is used to send request parameters

6. Send Files with the request

This section is used to send files to request

7. Proxy server

If proxy server is in use, set proxy server specific settings here

If you want to test the response, you can add assertions to this sampler.

Right click on HTTP Request -> Add -> Assertions -> Choose your assertion

Following are the list of samplers provided by JMeter.

FTP Request

HTTP Request

JDBC Request

Java Request

SOAP/XML-RPC Request

WebService(SOAP) Request (DEPRECATED)

LDAP Request

LDAP Extended Request

Access Log Sampler

BeanShell Sampler

BSF Sampler

JSR223 Sampler

TCP Sampler

JMS Publisher

JMS Subscriber

JMS Point-to-Point

JUnit Request

Mail Reader Sampler

Test Action

SMTP Sampler

OS Process Sampler

MongoDB Script

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