Will probably just buy BrowserMob. Too bad there isn't an open source framework to already do this.
Building this is a yak shave, and I need to be testing, not building a test harness thats probably going to break on the next release. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:40 PM, David Luu <[email protected]> wrote: > JMeter proxy is the most integrated approach, but I find it gives "too much > information", so I tend to use external tools like browser traffic sniffers > (HttpFox, livehttpheaders, ieHttpHeaders) to see what HTTP requests are > made for AJAX calls for just the requests & responses I'm interested in, > easier to manage. But that's just my opinion, others might find the JMeter > proxy easier to use. > > Whatever approach you take, you just need to know what HTTP requests are > made by the AJAX calls to replicate in JMeter, and parameterize those > requests to take in dynamic/test data as needed, assert appropriate > response data, etc. In this case, WebDriver can be dropped from the > equation, just gives more overhead and lowers scalability in load > generation. > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Philippe Mouawad < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > AjaxCall will emit a network call which JMeter will capture. > > > > Use JMeter Server Proxy and you should have the Ajax Calls recorded. > > > > Regards > > Philippe M. > > > > Follow me on twitter <https://twitter.com/philmdot> > > > > UBIK-INGENIERIE on TWITTER <https://twitter.com/ubikingenierie> > > > > UBIK LOAD PACK BLOG <http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/> > > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Zippy Zeppoli <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > To clarify: > > > An example would be: > > > 1) log in via a form post > > > 2) look at orders in an ecommerce interface (AJAX call) > > > 3) click on result to view order detail (AJAX) > > > > > > Pretty much a standard ecommerce transaction, but the interface is all > > > javascript. > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Stott, Charlie <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: David Luu [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 1:18 PM > > > > > To: JMeter Users List > > > > > Subject: Re: complex javascript actions in jmeter load test > > > > > > > > > > >> You can use webdriver from jmeter. Create a webdriver class > that > > > > > performs the requests and runs the javascript via the browser, then > > > > run/call > > > > > it from a BSF or JSR sampler. > > > > > > > > > > Just to clarify, I take it that's only worthwhile to do (in terms > of > > > > > scalability) when using PhantomJSDriver or HtmlUnitDriver or > > > > FirefoxDriver > > > > > (on Linux with xvfb) with JMeter this way? > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Worthwhile" depends on assumptions. > > > > > > > > > Because otherwise, the browser GUI is the scalability limiting > factor > > > > even > > > > > with JMeter and Grid deployment, and in that case, no difference in > > > using > > > > > WebDriver outside JMeter to do performance tests except if one > wants > > > the > > > > > JMeter logging/reporting facilities to help performance test, > because > > > > there's > > > > > no or minimal scalabiity gain. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Seems the poster is more at the capability/viability stage of > > developing > > > > tests? We would need much more information to start advising on the > > > entire > > > > load testing process, start to finish, and what challenges may face > the > > > > poster along the way. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Stott, Charlie <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > You can use webdriver from jmeter. Create a webdriver class that > > > > > > performs the requests and runs the javascript via the browser, > then > > > > > > run/call it from a BSF or JSR sampler. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > > From: Zippy Zeppoli [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 9:28 AM > > > > > > > To: JMeter Users List > > > > > > > Subject: Re: complex javascript actions in jmeter load test > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The problem is Selenium has no performance testing harness. > > > > > > > Sucks that it seems BrowserMob (paid solution) is the only > solid > > > > option. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Until someone builds something with Phantom.js, but it seems > > JMeter > > > > > > > isn't going to cut it here. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:40 PM, David Luu <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You'll need to figure out what the complex javascript does. > > Does > > > > > > > > it make any AJAX requests, or is it all local client side > > > > > > processing/rendering? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If it's all local, then there's no point testing it with > > JMeter, > > > > > > > > that's client side browser testing better done with Selenium. > > It > > > > > > > > won't impact the server side load test (except delay in > server > > > > > > > > response time for fetching files will impact the javascript > > > > > > > > execution on client side, but that can be compensated w/ > JMeter > > > > > > > > load test against server with 1+ Selenium test running at > same > > > > > > > > time to gauge client side performance of site/app in > browser). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If the javascript does execute AJAX requests, you need to > > figure > > > > > > > > out the HTTP requests made and mimic that in JMeter as part > of > > > your > > > > > test. > > > > > > > > You can get that reading dev/design docs, or reverse > > > > > > > > engineer/traffic sniffing the app while doing manual testing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Zippy Zeppoli > > > > > > > > <[email protected] > > > > > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > If I have a website which requires logging in, and > executing > > > > > > > > > complex javascript actions, how would I do this (if at all) > > in > > > > jmeter? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've heard of writing groovy scripts to do this but this > > sounds > > > > > > > > > like a > > > > > > > > lot > > > > > > > > > of work / maintenance. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
