Performance Testing with JMeter 3 - Third Edition

Running your first recorded scenario

We can go right ahead and replay or run our recorded scenario now, but before that, let's add a listener or two to give us feedback on the results of the execution. We will cover listeners in depth in Chapter 5, Monitoring Tests in Real-Time, when we discuss resource monitoring, but for now, it is enough to know that they are the components that show the results of the test run. There is no limit to the amount of listeners we can attach to a test plan, but we will often use only one or two.

For our test plan, let's add three listeners for illustrative purposes. Let's add a Graph Results listener, a View Results Tree listener, and an Aggregate Report listener. Each listener gathers a different kind of metric ...