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November 6, 2016 JMeter By Rida Sattar

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JMeter sends requests without applying any delay between each sampler/request. If you perform load/stress testing on your server
without any delay, it will be overloaded. Then, it won’t be able to give you realistic results and fail to simulate real world user traffic
experience. JMeter Timers are the solution to all these problems. Timer element can be added in a test plan to apply wait between
each sampler/request.

The JMeter Timers available are as follows:

BeanShell Timer
BSF Timer
Constant Throughput Timer
Constant Timer
Gaussian Random Timer
JSR223 Timer
Poisson Random Timer
Synchronizing Timer
Uniform Random Timer

Let’s have a look on some common types of timer:

1: Constant Timer:
Constant Timer element delays each request in a Thread Group for the same amount of time.

1. Enter Thread Delay value in milliseconds. We have entered delay of “2000” ms (which is equals to 2 seconds) in between each user
request.
2: Uniform Random Timer:
Uniform Random Timer element is used to delay each request for a random period of time.

Total amount of delay = Random Delay Maximum + Constant Delay Offset

1. Enter any Maximum Random Delay value in milliseconds.

2. nter constant Delay Offset value in milliseconds in addition to random delay.

3: Gaussian Random Timer:

Gaussian Random Timer element is used to delay each user request for a random period of time. It has a random deviation around
the Constant Delay Offset based on Gaussian curve distribution.

For Example:

1. Deviation Value: 100 milliseconds

2. Constant Delay Offset Value: 300 milliseconds

Approximately 68% of the delays will be between (200 – 400) ms

Constant Delay Offset – Deviation = 200 ms

Constant Delay Offset + Deviation = 400 ms

4: BeanShell Timer:
BeanShell Timer element can be used to generate delay between each user request. For BeanShell scripting, go to this URL:
http://www.beanshell.org/
5: BSF Timer:
BSF Timer element can be used to generate delay using a BSF scripting language.

6: JSR223 Timer:
JSR223 Timer element can be used to generate delay using a JSR223 scripting language.
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Rida Sattar

My name is Rida Sattar. As a technical-savvy, I have more than 3 years of experience in Software testing and Selenium automation.
Currently I am working as a Senior QA Automation Engineer for an IT company in Karachi, Pakistan. I always love to put myself in new
challenges and break software from different angles. I have passion for automation and performance testing. I always try to share my
ideas and knowledge with the community because I believe in this quote: “Knowledge has no value unless you use and share it.”

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