From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
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Adding a thread group - Apache JMeter Tutorial
From the course: JMeter: Performance and Load Testing
Adding a thread group
- [Announcer] If I want to run a low test that simulates a lot of users performing various actions, it all starts with the users, right? I need to build out the test to help simulate users within my low test. To do that, I'm going to use something called a thread group. Think of a thread group as a group of people waiting to do what is written in the test plan section of the JMeter GUI. To add the thread group to the test plan, I'm going to right click on the test plan on the left-hand side of the screen, go to add and find threads. There are a few types of thread groups built into JMeter that I could add, but I'm just concerned with thread group at this stage. It's the most basic type and the one I'll be using most. Left clicking on this, adds that element to the test plan meaning that we now have a group of users to perform the actions we set out in the plan. I can now also see that the context view section of the screen has changed to show me the specific details of the thread…
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