FYI http://theworkaholic.blogspot.com/2009/10/spidering-site-with-jmeter.html#solution
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Jason James <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am using Jmeter ver 2.3.4 > > I had been trying to get the Jmeter spidering working, the recipe in > the docs I found just did not work. I was finding that the documented > example > > 1. did not loop > 2. would go back to th etop level http://www.mysite.org/.* and die > without re-spidering. > > Here is my working testplan: > > Thread Group [action to be taken after a sampler error = continue] > - HTTP Request [server name or IP = www.mysite.org] > - While Controller [Condition = LAST] You must type LAST > - - HTTP Request [server name www.mysite.org ; Path .*] > - - Link Parser > > and that's it. The crucial things here were > .: the While Controller with the LAST option for the Condition > .: Also the documentation tells you to put server = .* in the first > HTTP Request : do that and you will spider the whole web! > .: setting action = continue in the Thread Group > > Once all this was in place I found I could randomly trawl my clients > site with about 60,000 pages. I could ramp up the number of users to > simulate a load of people randomly hitting the site. Insertion of a > Timer Controller with a Gaussian distribution helps make it a bit more > random. > > Happy spidering. > > Jason > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
