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Toby Eggitt
Toby Eggitt

Reputation: 1872

Most simple "get started" doc with Jmeter

I'm trying to get going with JMeter, and am having trouble finding a really simple tutorial for the first "getting started" the docs seem to be very verbose, covering all kinds of scenarios.

Is there something that would take me from having downloaded the app (I can run it, and get a GUI) to the point where I can send a single, predefined GET request, at a specific rate.

Just one request, no login, nothing. But I'd like to be able to send it at a selected rate.

This will do two things for me. First, get past that wall of info that I'm finding and give me a starting point from which to experiment. Second, it's actually pretty much all I want to do anyway; I don't want to record results, I just want to hit a server at specific steady rate, and observe the OS level impact on the server when it stabilizes (number of threads, memory usage, rate of context switching, CPU usage). I'll get to more complex things later, maybe.

I'm sure someone has written something to achieve this, but Google keeps finding heavyweight "tomes" that are off-putting to wade through and feel like they're wasting huge amounts of my time.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (3)

Dmitri T
Dmitri T

Reputation: 168157

The structure of the simplest JMeter Test Plan as per your scenario should be something like:

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

RaGe
RaGe

Reputation: 23785

I find Blazemeter's JMeter tutorial to be very beginner friendly:

http://community.blazemeter.com/knowledgebase/topics/10018-jmeter-tutorials

http://community.blazemeter.com/knowledgebase/articles/197560-jmeter-video-tutorial-writing-your-first-jmeter-s

(I'm not affiliated with Blazemeter)

Upvotes: 1

Toby Eggitt
Toby Eggitt

Reputation: 1872

Gach, as so often is the case, the terminology was obscuring that first level of understanding that allows one to make use of the docs. I found what I needed right there in the regular documentation:

http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/build-web-test-plan.html

Upvotes: 0

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