I think you cannot specify comparisons in the While loop condition itself. Either you call a function or use a variable to control it - and it will run until the specified variable is 'true' or unless a function returns 'true'
In your case have an If condition after the Regex extractor ie. If a variable_value==5 then bVariable = false And specify the bVariable in the 'while' loop. HTH. Cheers, Farid -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 23 August 2008 03:38 To: [email protected] Subject: While loop controller question Hello all, I am writing a testing scenario for a complex banking app, using jmeter of course. So far I manage to log on and navigate through the app with no problems. However, at some point I have a temporary page which is displayed while a mainframe transaction is being performed. This temporary page loops back to itself every 5 seconds (via javascript) until the MF transaction is complete....then it continues and displays the intended data. My problem stems from trying to get past this page using JMeter. Here is how I've set it up: ****** snip ****** Http Request 1 Http Request 2 While Controller (not sure of the syntax here, but I would like it to be something like: SequenceValue <> 5 and don't loop more than 10 times) Http Request 3 Regular expression extractor (ref name: SequenceValue, regex: noSeq=(\d{1}), Template: $1$, Match: 0, Default: NOT FOUND) Http Request 4 ******************** Note: each page returns a sequence number in the html (noSeq=x), and the temporary page keeps returning noSeq=4, hence when the transaction is completed I receive a page with noSeq=5 Some questions: 1) Is this a good approach to get past this kind of contruct in our webapp? 2) SequenceValue keeps returning NOT FOUND .... (yet, SequenceValue_1=5), why is the variable not affected properly? 3) Can someone suggest the syntax for my while controller's condition? Thanks in advance!! Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
