Beginners tutorial -:working with JMeter in Mac and windows - Part-01

 

Prequisite 

you should have Java downloaded in your system with Home path set under environment variables.(as of today Java version 8 and higher are required fro jmeter ) for help check out this link

Note
Always run the jmeter on your secondary browser,  if you give the primary browser for proxy settings then your internet connection will be disrupted for the browser as well as system
For ex if you have chrome and firefox and your primary or default browser is chrome then do all the proxy setting in firefox so it won't hamper the system Internet connection 
if you have safari as your default browser in your mac os then set proxy in chrome/firefox 

MAC

Download jmeter from the link here

click on the hypelink under section Binaries  "Apache JMeter(5.3). tgz" file  for Mac  

Tar file will get downloaded

Double click on the tar file to unzip 

once you open the folder  got to bin and search for jmeter.sh file this is a executable file for Mac

open the terminal

 enter   ls. (it will give you list of folder/file  in your system)

enter  cd apache-jmeter-5.3

 enter  ls

enter  cd bin

enter  sh jmeter.sh

It will open jmeter in your system

A test plan folder will be visible 

Right click on Test plan folder ->Add->Non test elements->HTTPS(S) test script recorder 

click on start  it will give you a message 

You can go and check the same in bin folder

Download "jmeter plugin manager" from the link  and  click on the Jar File in "installation and usage" section    

once it gets downloaded unzip it and place the file in folder  Jmeter -> lib-> ext 

once you are done pasting the file in ext folder 

close and restart Jmeter

Check plugins manager option will be available

Preparing secondary  Browser ---Chrome/Firefox for JMeter

You can do the setting in any of the secondary browser available in your Mac system, I am mentioning all the steps for Both the browser for your convenience It will give you a message Apache JMeterTemporaryRootCA certification is generated in bin folder.

Chrome

Setting up proxy 

settings->search for proxy  and click Open your computer's proxy setting's

once the page is check web proxy(HTTP), Web proxy server  mention "localhost" and port "8089"(Your choice but it should be similar to what your are going to mention in jmeter)

Click Ok and then apply.

Port number should be similar to test script recorder

Note:- If you want you can keep default port 8888 but make sure in browser and script recorder it should  be same 

To install SSL certificate in your chrome browser

Unlike windows you do not need to install "apache jmeter temporary root CA" file to browser.

Now you are good to go with Jmeter,  and ready to record   you only need to change Target controller under Test plan creation as "Testplan->Thread group->recording controller"                                                                                                

Click on "start" button, you will get a window prompt for , which indicates that the recording is started

Now you can move on to browser where proxy is set , I am using Firefox here/

enter the url I am using "https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/" and go to few steps, once steps are done  you can "Stop" the recorder:Transactions control and check,  your steps will be recorded in recording controller

If you wanted to to do recording on another weblink you can simply add another recording controller

I have renamed it as "sample" ( the earlier recording we did has been renamed as "Java")

 Now to save new recording in "sample" you only need to change the path in

HTTPS test script recorder -> Target controller and select TestPlan>Thread Group>Sample. and you are good to go with recording the steps

More about this is discussed in next blog

Windows

Download jmeter from the link here

click on the hypelink under section Binaries  "Apache JMeter(version). zip" file  for windows  

to run jmeter in windows double click on "windows batch file" for jmeter. present in bin folder 

download "jmeter plugin manager" from the link  and  click on the Jar File in "installation and usage" section    

once it gets downloaded unzip it and place the file in folder  Jmeter -> lib-> ext 

once you are done pasting the file in ext folder 

close and restart Jmeter

Check plugins manager option will be available

download and paste "apache jmeter temporary root CA" file in  Jmeter  and place it in bin folder if its not generated automatically

Chrome

Setting up proxy 

settings->search for proxy  and click Open your computer's proxy setting's

page proxy will open  switch it off Automatically detect settings, Go to Manual proxy setup

switch it on "user a proxy server"    in place of address mention "http://localhost"    and port 8089 and save

To install SSL certificate in your chrome browser

settings-search for  cert and security option will be visible  click on security and go to manage certificate click on it and certificate window will open  click on Import and add file "apache jmeter temporary root CA" downloaded earlier

Firefox

Setting up proxy

options->search for proxy  and click on settings  in connection setting page click on Manual proxy configuration mention localhost in  HTTP proxy  and port 8089 and click on the checkbox also use this proxy in FTP and HTTPS

To install SSL certificate  in your firefox bowser

Options->in search box search for cert  click on view certificate  and certificate manager will open  click on Import and add file "apache jmeter temporary root CA" downloaded earlier