I am using Apache JMeter to load test a web application. JMeter has an XML file format for storing load test configuration information. I wanted to system test as well, and needed to generate a large number of unique URL hits. Rather than using the clunky UI to add them, and getting carpal tunnel from it, I analyzed the XML file format and split it up. Then I put tokens (XXXTIMETOWAITXXX) in the appropriate places, and used an Excel generated CSV file to drive perl to assemble the pieces of text into a valid JMeter config file.
Well, what happened next? I needed some way to generate a larger number URLs than Excel would be pleasant to handle? Again, perl came to the rescue, making it easy to generate umpteen lines of correctly formatted CSV.
Posted by moore at January 14, 2006 07:51 PM