JMeter does not record any client server activity

Question

I am trying to record any client-server activity in JMeter as a start for learning. I am doing this from a company network and hence have to go through proxy. Below are the steps I took for recording.

• I read in JMeter documentation that for recording through proxy I have to invoke from command by giving the proper proxy. I used below code to invoke JMeter.

  jmeter -H "proxy address taken from Internet settings" -P "8080" -u "Domain*UserName*" -a "password".

  With this JMeter invokes fine and then I start the normal process of creating a thread group and a recording controller.

• Now I am changing the internet setting in IE to local host and mentioning the port as given in JMeter (8080). I am keeping the proxy used as it is because without proxy no site will open except for the internal company sites.

• Also I have imported the certificate which JMeter uses for the browsers.

Answer 1

This is now resolved

I added : JAVA_HOME variable in User environment variables with value pointing to jre installed on my machine C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_60\jre

Also I had to select Java under HTTP Sampler Setting in HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder. (Though I don't get the purpose of this setting).

HTTP Sampler setting changed to Java

After doing above changes script is recording fine under company proxy.

Answer 2

I would recommend you to consider to use chrome extension for jMeter script recording without launching JMeter benefits: You can export the script written to JMeter and/or to cloud as well and run it on the cloud.