Design question

[Patrick LeBoutillier <pa...@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm new to JMeter and want to use it to do performance testing on an
application we have that uses a proprietary protocol. Also, the application
uses a persistent connection. Users typically connect to the server
in the morning and disconnect in late afternoon.

I have ASCII files that contain daily 'sessions', i.e. every request
sent for a specific user, followed by the idle time until the next request.
I want to replay these 'sessions' (possibly at a faster rate) in order to
to load testing on the application server

My plan is to write a custom Controler that will connect to the server at 
startup
and then open one of the session files and loop through the request. I also 
need
a custom Timer that will pause for the length of the idle time until the 
next request.

My questions are:

- Is this the right way to tackle this problem?
- If so, is there a way to get the Timer to ask the Controler for the next 
amount of
   idle time? (I'm a bit confused as to how the architecture goes...)


Thanks,

Patrick
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Re: Design question

[peter lin <jm...@yahoo.com>]

 
the first step is to write a sampler using your custom driver. You should be able to test it out with the default controllers, then you can work on your own custom controller.
 
peter


Patrick LeBoutillier <pa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I'm new to JMeter and want to use it to do performance testing on an
application we have that uses a proprietary protocol. Also, the application
uses a persistent connection. Users typically connect to the server
in the morning and disconnect in late afternoon.

I have ASCII files that contain daily 'sessions', i.e. every request
sent for a specific user, followed by the idle time until the next request.
I want to replay these 'sessions' (possibly at a faster rate) in order to
to load testing on the application server

My plan is to write a custom Controler that will connect to the server at 
startup
and then open one of the session files and loop through the request. I also 
need
a custom Timer that will pause for the length of the idle time until the 
next request.

My questions are:

- Is this the right way to tackle this problem?
- If so, is there a way to get the Timer to ask the Controler for the next 
amount of
idle time? (I'm a bit confused as to how the architecture goes...)


Thanks,

Patrick
----------------------------------
| Patrick LeBoutillier
| patrick_leboutillier@hotmail.com

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