From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
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Running your first load test - Apache JMeter Tutorial
From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
Running your first load test
- [Instructor] The stage is set, time for some final preflight checks and then I can run the first load test. First things first, I have a test plan. This contains all the information for the test. Everything nested within this will execute when I run the load test. Then I've got the thread group or users who will perform the actions or samplers. The samplers can be numerous things. This test is loading a HTTP website. And finally, I've got the listener that will display the output of the load test. Before I dive in, however, I want to go to my thread group and change some of the settings. If I click Start Now, this test will only run once, so before I run the test, I want to set the number of threads to five and I want to set the loop count to 30. This means that five virtual users will each access the website at the same time and then repeat that process 29 more times. I'll save it and then click on the listener. This is to verify that auto-scroll is checked on the bottom of this…
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