I have been tasked to create a script that will load-test a sign-up process. I
have captured the process and need to alter it to create a new user for each
thread.
I have two issues, one I think I understand how to do, the other, not so much.
1) The unique email is being handled by a Counter object when the form is
POSTed. The Counter is referenced as “usercounter” starting at 101,
incrementing by 1. The username I am posting is:
registration[email] jmeter${usercounter}@bogusemail.com<http://bogusemail.com>
I am 75% sure that this will do what I want, with each thread using an
incrementing number for its run (the first will sign-up a user named
“[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>” and the 10th will
sign-up a user named
“[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>” )
2) The form, however, passes a hidden variable to the browser that has to be
passed back in the POST. The number is unique and has to match what was handed
to it.
<input class="hidden form-control" id="registration_enrollment_id"
name="registration[enrollment_id]" type="hidden" value="2”>
The developer sent me that snippet. The “value=‘2’ ” is unique for this
registration and I need to be able to extract that data from the page source so
that I can pass it back through the thread’s POST. At this point, I am LOST!
Where do I find this in the recorded transactions? It was obviously extracted,
since the POST that I sent back in the first test included the pair:
registration[enrollment_id] 2
Can anyone provide me a method for pulling the page source information for the
form so that I can get this unique number? The enrollment fails without it and
I can’t even test if my ${usercounter} works, either, since I can’t see the
registration pass with the missing enrollment_id. The registration for the
first user, the one created during the recording, worked great, since my
browser handed back the correct number (that time the number was 2214)
I have used jmeter to load-test page loads and form fills, before, but this is
the first time I have had to manipulate the data. I need help!
-Bob
