Hi,
For my first JMeter project, I've been asked to accomplish the following test
plan, but I am completely unsure if the tool can do it.
Here is the plan, in table format, which should look OK in fixed-width fonts:
<pre>
Max. Txns Per Minute each 5-Minutes
Transaction Users 05 10 15 20 25 30 Total
------------------ ----- -- -- -- -- -- -- ------
1. AutoPay 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 | 50
2. Credit card 4 1 2 3 4 3 2 | 75
3. Policy lookup 15 1 5 10 15 10 5 | 230
4. Billing Info 15 1 5 10 15 10 5 | 230
5. ACH 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 | 50
Total Transactions 25 80 135 190 135 70 | 635
</pre>
For each transaction, I've set up a thread group (5 total). I have the Soap
requests working fine using data from CSV files.
My issue is setting up the throttle on threads/users and transactions so that
they ramp up and then down evenly according to the test "plan" in the table
above.
For example: #3 should perform 1 lookup per minute for the first 5 minutes,
then
perform 5 lookups per minute until :10 minutes pass, at which point it should
perform 10 transactions per minute... etc.
If I were writing Java to do this, I'd:
1. set up a 1-minute timer to fire
2. for each transaction type
3. get # transactions for the current minute
4. fire them off
I've tried a Constant Throughput timer, but it only takes effect after the
threads are all ramped up, so basically it starts at the 20-minute rate (given
a
15-thread group).
Is this type of a strictly controlled transaction distribution even possible
with JMeter?
Thanks in advance for your help!! I look forward to learning more about this
amazing tool.
Regards,
Chris
