Did you finish reading the get started manual? You should have seen this page https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/build-web-test-plan.html
Once you get the hang of it, its actually pretty simple to do what your asking. Its also a very flexible load testing tool. It can do everything you asked about. On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM tomwarner13 (via GitHub) <[email protected]> wrote: > > tomwarner13 opened a new issue, #6671: > URL: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/6671 > > ### The documentation URL > > https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/get-started.html > > ### Feedback > > Here is my situation: > > I have a list of URLs in a file. Imagine the file looks something like > this, but it would be trivial to change it to any reasonable input format: > > ``` > GET https://hostname.com/api/endpoint1?client=client1 > GET https://hostname.com/api/endpoint2?client=client2 > POST https://hostname.com/api/endpoint3?client=client1 > GET https://hostname.com/api/endpoint4?client=client4 > .......many more such examples > ``` > > I wanted to use JMeter to generate a script that, roughly speaking, > hits each of these URLs in order so that I could upload the script to a > cloud-based load testing tool. If I could get it to do something fancy like > let me configure the hostname with a variable, or adjust the timing or > parallelization dynamically, that would have been great. But for a minimum > proof-of-concept here, a script that executes each request one at a time in > order would have been perfectly adequate. > > This feels to me like, roughly, the minimum possible thing I could be > asking from your load testing tool. If load testing tools had a "Hello > World" tier of basic intro example, it seems like "make a series of > requests in order" should be it. > > Your docs could not be less approachable for questions like this. I'm > sure there are people coming to this tool who already know 95% of the > functionality of this tool and are just looking for clarification on how to > import a Java library, or whatever, but you should consider possibly > providing information for the rest of us too. I've spent too long writing > this up already when I could be looking for different, less newbie-hostile > tools to use, but in conclusion, would it kill you to write up something > like a step-by-step guide to building an example script? > > > -- > This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. > To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the > URL above to go to the specific comment. > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: > [email protected] > > -- Thanks, Brian Wolfe https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-wolfe-3136425a/
