From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
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Adding a listener - Apache JMeter Tutorial
From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
Adding a listener
- If I wanted to run my test right now all I would really need to do is click on the start button on the toolbar, and the load test would perform a test as outlined. However, I set up the actions that the load test need to perform, but I have no real way of knowing if the test has been successful or not. To do this, I'll need to add a listener. Listeners give JMeter a way of displaying the results of a test as it's running. Now for larger tests, this isn't recommended, because displaying the output live during the load test can use a lot of system resources. But for small tests like this and for a test creation, it's absolutely fine. Plus, I want to know if my test actually works, so I'll need to add at least one to verify this. If I right click on the test plan instead of the thread group and highlight listeners, I can see a long list of listeners that I can add to the project including some of the additional graph plugins I added earlier. I'm going to add the view results tree into…
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