Timers

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Timers

Note that timers are processed before each sampler in the scope in which they are found; if there are several timers in the same scope, all the timers will be processed before each sampler.

What are Timers? ⏲

JMeter has different types of Timers. Frequently useds timers are: Constant Timer, Uniform Random Timer, Precise Throughput Timer etc.

⏳ Timers injects a delay before it executes Samplers in scope.

A user who knows how to place an order in the ecommerce application navigates faster in their pace. But if a user is new to the application, then the user's pace is slow. Because every user is unique.

To simulate the real world scenario in the test plan, it is important to add relevant delay between the requests. Also, it will help you test the application in a right way, instead of throwing up the load without delay which will trigger a server crash 💥.

⌨️ Activities

1. To your Pet Store plan, let us add a Constant Timer for each HTTP request.
2. Right on the first HTTP Request, go to Add > Timer > Constant Timer.
3. Add 1000 in Thread Delay. Unit of time in JMeter is milliseconds.

4. Click on View Results Tree element and then click on Run

You can observe a delay between the HTTP requests when the test is running.

👏 Kudos! Now you know how to add Timers to JMeter test plan.

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Congratulations ✨

Now you know how to run JMeter test plan, parameterize the test, add the timers and view the results.

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