Hi all, I am performing some load testing for a web-based application in Tomcat server. I need the load testing to happen as if it would have been in real-time scenario. I am using the "Access Log Sampler" for the purpose. The parser is OrderPreservingLogParser. Currently I have to set the Number of Threads to the number of entries in the log file [Access Log file with common logging pattern].
The requirement for the load test is that, if in real-time the web application performs a set of access within a span of time, say 24 hrs. then the load testing must happen as if it was in real-time. For example: An user access a page: http://mydomain:8080/app/sample.jsp at a time 15:48:04 which gives an entry in the access log as 127.0.0.1 - - [31/Aug/2006:15:48:04 +0530] "GET app/sample.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 174 Now after a couple of time another page is requested say: http://mydomain:8080/app/sam.jsp at a time 15:52:40 which gives an entry in the access log as 127.0.0.1 - - [31/Aug/2006:15:52:40 +0530] "GET app/sam.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 174 Now when I do my load testing, the time span should be as if it happened in real-time. 127.0.0.1 - - [5/Dec/2006:1:48:04 +0530] "GET app/sample.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 174 127.0.0.1 - - [5/Dec/2006:1:52:40 +0530] "GET app/sam.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 174 Currently I find that either we have to set a Ramp up period or a random timer. How can I create a test plan that can replicate the real-time requests? Is it possible to create a test plan that replicates the whole requests found in the log file without explicitly setting the number of threads for the thread group? Thanks in advance - Janeve George
