This is a good suggestion. -Mike
On 27 Sep 2002 at 13:50, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:14:03PM -0400, Mike Stover wrote: > > Have you used the proxy recording component to record your browser actions? > > > > On 26 Sep 2002 at 18:42, Jason Fisher wrote: > > > > > I want to create what I think would be a valuable tool for others as well. > > > I would like to extend JMeter and create a Generative Controller that reads > > > an Apache log file and sends HTTP requests to a given host with the GET or > > > POST params from the requests in the log file. > > The proxy's very useful, but only for capturing one's own use of > the target site. Jason's log reader would make it easy to replay > a period of production use, after the fact. A couple of uses > come to mind: > - You could load-test what real users have actually done, > rather than just what you imagine they might do > > - If something interesting happens (e.g. your site crashes due > to load, or starts spitting out erroneous pages), you could > more easily turn the sequence that caused the failure into a > regression-test case -- even if the sequence is thousands of > requests long > > However, it seems to me that the log reader should act more like > the proxy than like HTTP Request. That is, it shouldn't be a > sampler, which is used during a test run to generate actual > requests to the target site. Instead, it should be used > *outside* of a test run to write a test plan, as the proxy does. > Advantages: > - One could edit the resulting test plan (fine tuning, adding > assertions, arranging to log in the users first, etc.), > rather than being constrained to replay *exactly* what's in > the log > > - One wouldn't pay the overhead of reading and parsing the log > file during real-time testing > > - If the log reader were a sampler, one would have to store the > Apache log files along with the test plans that use them. > With the log reader as a test-plan generator, the Apache log > is only needed temporarily; you can trash it once you've > saved the .jmx file > > - It just conceptually feels like the Right Thing > > > -- > > | | /\ > |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | | / > The acronym for "the powers that be" differs by only one letter > from that for "the pointy-haired boss". > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Michael Stover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: mstover_ya ICQ: 152975688 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
