What kind of information can be saved into .jtl file when running JMeter with NON-GUI?

There are two ways we can use:

•  modified the properties default values.  There are tons of  properties you can use to decide what you want to save into the result .jtl file. And you can find all of them from jmeter.properties file under /bin folder of your JMeter installation and they are starting with jmeter.save.saveservice.The following are default values.

#jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=csv
#jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results_failure_message=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results=none
#jmeter.save.saveservice.data_type=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.label=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_code=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_data=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_data.on_error=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_message=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.successful=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_name=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.time=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.subresults=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.assertions=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.latency=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.samplerData=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.responseHeaders=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.requestHeaders=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.encoding=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.bytes=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.url=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.filename=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.hostname=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_counts=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.sample_count=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.idle_time=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format=ms
#jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format=yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS
#jmeter.save.saveservice.default_delimiter=,
#jmeter.save.saveservice.default_delimiter=\t
#jmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.xml_pi=<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../extras/jmeter-results-detail-report_21.xsl"?>
#jmeter.save.saveservice.base_prefix=~/
#jmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush=false

•  We can use command-line option -D to change the jmeter.properties settings temporarily to make the test result save what we want to save into .jtl file.  for example, if we want to save the url into the .jtl, we can write the command line like this:


>>jmeter -n -t /my_jmeter_tests/testPath.jmx -l /my_jmeter_tests/test-output/test_result.jtl -D jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=xml -D jmeter.save.saveservice.url=true

if we use -J, rather than -D, it will modify the proprieties's value permanently.

See Apache JMeter Properties Customization Guide for more details on what can be done using JMeter Properties.

How to handle pipe line "|" in Jmeter HTTP Request parameter

In Jmeter HttpRequest parameter, can’t use pipe line ( | ) directly, it need to use %7C.

If  using pipe ( | ) directly in the parameter, like this STLNAME1|CARDMSG1|STFNAME1,

 

This request will fail and the response will complain, like “java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in query….”

 

 

So, if you have only one parameter need to us pipe line ( | ), you can directly replace the pipe line ( | ) with %7C, that will help you solve the problem. Like “STLNAME1%7CCARDMSG1%7CSTFNAME1”

 

But, if you use a lot of pipe line ( | ) in your parameter, replacing them manually will be painful, so there is another way to automatically convert pipe line into %7C.

Check “encode?” box in “Send Parameters with the Request” like this. 

 Nice, ready to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

COMPLAINS FOR MISSING STEP THREAD GROUP OR ULTIMATE THREAD GROUP In JMeter Remote Testing

If the JMeter test is using Stepping Thread Group or Ultimate Thread Group, So we need to make sure the slave machines are installed Jmeterplugin ,  without this plugin the Stepping Thread Group and Ultimate Thread Group won’t be support and Slave machine can’t run the Jmeter test.  If you don’t install the Plugin , from the menu, you can’t see the choices:

·         jp@gc – Stepping Thread Group

·         jp@gc – Ultimate Thread Group

And when you try to run remote Start… there will be an error message pops up for complaining can’t find the Stepping Thread Group…..