HTTP Proxy Server in JMeter: Record Example Script-chapter 11

Record Testing help tester to record & run their activity against test target. It is a type of automated testing but for multiple users. This tutorial guides you how to use Proxy Server to record your test.

The Proxy Server allows JMeter to watch and record user activity while they are browsing web application with a normal browser.

In this tutorial, you will learn

• Step 1) Setting HTTP Proxy server
• Step 2) Record your activity
• Step 3) Run your Test Plan
• Step 4) Save your test result

Here is the roadmap of this practical example

Step 1) Setting the HTTP Proxy server

This is a Step-by-step guide to setup proxy

1. Start JMeter
2. Select Test Plan on the tree
3. Add Thread Group
   Right click on the Test Plan and add a new thread group: Add => Threads (Users) =>Thread Group

4. Add HTTP Request
   Select the Thread Group; right click Add => Config Element => HTTP Request Defaults

In new HTTP Request Defaults element: In Server name or IP, enter "google.com". You should keep the others fields blank

5. Add Recording Controller
   Right click on the "Thread Group" and add a recording controller: Add => Logic Controller =>
   Recording Controller

6. Add Proxy Server to WorkBench
   Right click on the Workbench and add the http proxy: Add => Non-Test Elements => HTTP Proxy Server  
   
7. Set Target Controller where your recorded scripts will be added

8. Start Proxy Server
   Return to HTTP Proxy Server, and click the Start button at the bottom. Now your JMeter proxy server start
     
9. Start your Browser  choose Tool => Option => Advanced => Network => Setting => Enter HTTP proxy as figure below
    
   

Step 2) Record your activity

1. Now Launch http://www.google.com in your web browser (JMeter still open)
2. Do activities search the keyword "apache".
3. Back to JMeter, in HTTP Proxy Server, click Stop when finished
    
   
   
4. After finishing recording, you will see JMeter automatically created a new HTTP request as the figure below
   
   JMeter has already recorded a user request to the Home Page of Google website. Http://www.google.com/
   The other HTTP requests display in above figure, you should remove them. Because sometime JMeter also records some advertising links while you are searching keyword on Google. We should ignore them in our Test Plan
5. Click File => Save your Test Plan as
   
6. A Dialog box display => enter a name of your test plan at File Name field => Click Save
   Now your Test Plan is saved under name RecordingTestPlan.jmx

Step 3) Run your Test Plan

1. Select Thread Group => Add => Listener=> Summary Report

2. The Summary Report will show some basic statics
   
3. Select Thread Group, enter information as the figure below

4. Before you start the test, select "Summary Report". When you ready to run a test, select Run => Start (Ctrl+R). JMeter will playback your activity in 100 times
   As the test runs, the statistics will change until the test is done.
   

Step 4) Save your test result

1. Click Save Table Data to save test result to file

2. Enter the name of the test result and click Save. Test Result in JMeter is saved in *.csv format as default