Gyan Sangrah

Create your first get request in jMeter

In this article, we will create our first get request in jMeter.

Example

In this example, we will use following restful service - https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/all. This is a free service at this point of time that returns the information about countries.

To create a new get request, we will follow these steps

   1. Open jMeter

   2. On the test plan, add a thread group (Right click on Test Plan → Add → Thread (Users) → Thread Group).

   3. In the thread group, add a sampler (Right click on Thread Group → Add → Sampler → HTTP Request).

   4. A window will open on the right-hand side to enter the required information. Please fill the information highlighted in the screenshot below

5. In the thread group, add a listener to display the response (Right click on Thread Group → Add → Listener → View Result Tree).

Finally your, test plan explorer will be like

Now run the sampler by clicking on the run icon on the toolbar on the top of the screen.

If you have not saved the test plan, jMeter will ask you to save the plan. Once the request is completed, you can see the result by clicking on the View Result Tree

There are different parts of the result

   1. Sampler result – This tab contains

      a. Response code

      b. Headers

      c. Cookie information

      d. Latency

      e. Response size

2. Request data – What is the data sent as request.

3. Response data – What is the response received once the request is processed.

Latency

   1. Latency is the time from just before sending the request to first response received.

   2. Latency is measured in milliseconds.

   3. More the latency, less is the performance.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Friday, November 29, 2019

Updated On -	Thursday, January 16, 2020

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