How to Confirm HTTP Response

[Srinath vaidyanathan <sr...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have a question regarding a web application i'm currently performance
testing using Jmeter 2.0.3. It's actually a online quiz application where
users can log on and take multiple-choice quizzes. This is my question.

For some quiz questions, There is a media attached to it , in most cases
it's a wmv file. To answer the question the user has to initially click the
media file and play it before he can answer the question correctly by
selecting one of the choices and go to the next one. Now I currently have a
working jmeter test plan that logs in as a user goes through every quiz
question by selecting one of the answer choices. But I would also like the
test plan to actually simulate a real-life user by clicking on the media
file before answering the question. Would that be possible?

now when the user takes the quiz on the browser and clicks the media file,
the browser recognizes the extension it and immediately opens Windows Media
Player to play it. But Jmeter will not be able to do that, because it will
not know how to deal with the Response. but what i would like is some
confirmation that the media file was actually clicked.

Thanks
Srinath

Re: How to Confirm HTTP Response

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

If you want to check the contents, have a look at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#Save_Responses_to_a_file

S.
On 04/10/05, Srinath vaidyanathan <sr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thnx Peter,
>
> JMeter is able to download the media file. I'm able to see that using Tree
> Listener which shows the content-type and the content-length of the response
> received. I guess that should be enough to confirm that Jmeter actually
> downloads the media file.
>
> Regards,
> Srinath
>
> On 10/3/05, Peter Lin <wo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/3/05, Srinath vaidyanathan <sr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a question regarding a web application i'm currently performance
> > > testing using Jmeter 2.0.3. It's actually a online quiz application
> > > where
> > > users can log on and take multiple-choice quizzes. This is my question.
> > >
> > > For some quiz questions, There is a media attached to it , in most cases
> > > it's a wmv file. To answer the question the user has to initially click
> > > the
> > > media file and play it before he can answer the question correctly by
> > > selecting one of the choices and go to the next one. Now I currently
> > > have a
> > > working jmeter test plan that logs in as a user goes through every quiz
> > > question by selecting one of the answer choices. But I would also like
> > > the
> > > test plan to actually simulate a real-life user by clicking on the media
> > > file before answering the question. Would that be possible?
> >
> >
> >
> > AFAIK, that's not going to be possible. You can have jmeter download the
> > media file, but it can't extract data out of it. that's rather hard to do
> > and I don't know of any tool free or commercial that can do that.
> >
> > now when the user takes the quiz on the browser and clicks the media file,
> > > the browser recognizes the extension it and immediately opens Windows
> > > Media
> > > Player to play it. But Jmeter will not be able to do that, because it
> > > will
> > > not know how to deal with the Response. but what i would like is some
> > > confirmation that the media file was actually clicked.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Srinath
> > >
> > >
> > have you looked at the logic controllers to see if one of them will work
> > for you case?
> >
> > like maybe the if controller
> >
> >
> > http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#If_Controller
> >
> > peter
> >
> >
>
>

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Re: How to Confirm HTTP Response

[Srinath vaidyanathan <sr...@gmail.com>]

Thnx Peter,

JMeter is able to download the media file. I'm able to see that using Tree
Listener which shows the content-type and the content-length of the response
received. I guess that should be enough to confirm that Jmeter actually
downloads the media file.

Regards,
Srinath

On 10/3/05, Peter Lin <wo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 10/3/05, Srinath vaidyanathan <sr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question regarding a web application i'm currently performance
> > testing using Jmeter 2.0.3. It's actually a online quiz application
> > where
> > users can log on and take multiple-choice quizzes. This is my question.
> >
> > For some quiz questions, There is a media attached to it , in most cases
> > it's a wmv file. To answer the question the user has to initially click
> > the
> > media file and play it before he can answer the question correctly by
> > selecting one of the choices and go to the next one. Now I currently
> > have a
> > working jmeter test plan that logs in as a user goes through every quiz
> > question by selecting one of the answer choices. But I would also like
> > the
> > test plan to actually simulate a real-life user by clicking on the media
> > file before answering the question. Would that be possible?
>
>
>
> AFAIK, that's not going to be possible. You can have jmeter download the
> media file, but it can't extract data out of it. that's rather hard to do
> and I don't know of any tool free or commercial that can do that.
>
> now when the user takes the quiz on the browser and clicks the media file,
> > the browser recognizes the extension it and immediately opens Windows
> > Media
> > Player to play it. But Jmeter will not be able to do that, because it
> > will
> > not know how to deal with the Response. but what i would like is some
> > confirmation that the media file was actually clicked.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Srinath
> >
> >
> have you looked at the logic controllers to see if one of them will work
> for you case?
>
> like maybe the if controller
>
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#If_Controller
>
> peter
>
>

Re: How to Confirm HTTP Response

[Peter Lin <wo...@gmail.com>]

On 10/3/05, Srinath vaidyanathan <sr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding a web application i'm currently performance
> testing using Jmeter 2.0.3. It's actually a online quiz application where
> users can log on and take multiple-choice quizzes. This is my question.
>
> For some quiz questions, There is a media attached to it , in most cases
> it's a wmv file. To answer the question the user has to initially click
> the
> media file and play it before he can answer the question correctly by
> selecting one of the choices and go to the next one. Now I currently have
> a
> working jmeter test plan that logs in as a user goes through every quiz
> question by selecting one of the answer choices. But I would also like the
> test plan to actually simulate a real-life user by clicking on the media
> file before answering the question. Would that be possible?



AFAIK, that's not going to be possible. You can have jmeter download the
media file, but it can't extract data out of it. that's rather hard to do
and I don't know of any tool free or commercial that can do that.

now when the user takes the quiz on the browser and clicks the media file,
> the browser recognizes the extension it and immediately opens Windows
> Media
> Player to play it. But Jmeter will not be able to do that, because it will
> not know how to deal with the Response. but what i would like is some
> confirmation that the media file was actually clicked.
>
> Thanks
> Srinath
>
>
have you looked at the logic controllers to see if one of them will work for
you case?

like maybe the if controller

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#If_Controller

peter