From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
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Adding a sampler - Apache JMeter Tutorial
From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
Adding a sampler
- [Instructor] I now need it to add a sampler to my thread group to give my users actions to perform during the load test. A sampler is basically an instruction, think of it as an action for the users to take. Right clicking on the thread group, I can highlight add and then sampler. From here I get long list of the different samples. JMeter is pretty diverse in the types of requests it can send through. For this load test I just want to visit the site so I'll select HTTP load test. Left clicking on this will add it into the test plan underneath the thread group. I cannot add a sampler to the test plan itself I have to have a thread group to perform these actions before I can start adding them. With the sampler added, I can see that the context section of the screen has changed also. I can see all of the details within my HTTP request. To visit the Landon Hotel website I'm going to put HTTP in the protocol box and the…
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