JMeter Building a test plan

In this post, I am going to explain how to create, save and run a basic test plan.

Step 1: Open JMeter and create new Thread Group.

Right click on Test Plan -> Add -> Threads -> Thread Group

Change Thread Group name to “My Application”, Use other defaults (Number Of Threads, Ramp-up time etc.,) as it is.

Step 2: Add Default HTTP Request element.

Right click on “My Apllication” -> Add -> Config Element -> HTTP Request Defaults.

Rename the Config element to “My URL”.

Add server name to the web site you want to test, here I am going to use “self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.in”. So I gave Server name or IP as “self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.in”.

Step 3: Add HTTP Requests sampler.

Right click on “My Application” -> Add -> Sampler -> HTTP Request

Rename sampler as Home Page.

Step 4: Add another HTTP Request sampler

Right click on “My Application” -> Add -> Sampler -> HTTP Request

Rename sampler name as ” Features Of Java”, and

Update path field to “/2014/03/features-of-java.html”.

Step 5: Add listener

Add a listener Aggregate report.

Right click on “My Application” -> Add -> Listener -> Aggregate Report.

Rename the Aggrgate report to “Test Reports”

In the Write All Data to a File section, enter the file name, to save the results.

Step 6: Save test plan

File ->  Save Test Plan As

Give a name to the file, I given “My_Application.jmx”

Step 7: From Run menu, run test plan.

Run -> Start

Go to Test Reports, you will see following output.

Explanation of column headings in Aggregation report

Column Heading	Description
Label	The label of the sample
Samples	Number of samples for the URL
Average	Average time of a set of results
Median	The time in the middle of a set of results
90% line	Maximum time taken for the fastest 90% of samples
95% line	Maximum time taken for the fastest 95% of samples
99% line	Maximum time taken for the fastest 99% of samples
Min	Minimum time for the samples
Max	Maximum time for the samples
Error %	Percentage of requests with errors or failures
Throughput	Throughput measured in requests per unit of time
KB/sec	Throughput measured in KiloBytes per second

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