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 <p>In this section, you will learn how to create a basic
 <a href="build-test-plan.html">Test Plan</a> to test a Web site.  You will
 create five users that send requests to two pages on the JMeter Web site.
 Also, you will tell the users to run their tests twice. So, the total number of
 requests is (5 users) x (2 requests) x (repeat 2 times) = 20 HTTP requests. To
 construct the Test Plan, you will use the following elements:
 <a href="test_plan.html#thread_group">Thread Group</a>,
 <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request">HTTP Request</a>,
 <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request_Defaults">HTTP Request Defaults</a>, and
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 <a href="build-adv-web-test-plan.html">Building an Advanced Web Test Plan</a>.</p>

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 <h1 id="adding_users">4.1 Adding Users<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_users" title="Link to here">&para;</a>
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 <p>The first step you want to do with every JMeter Test Plan is to add a
 <a href="test_plan.html#thread_group">Thread Group</a> element.  The Thread Group tells
 JMeter the number of users you want to simulate, how often the users should send
 requests, and how many requests they should send.</p>


 <p>Go ahead and add the ThreadGroup element by first selecting the Test Plan,
 clicking your right mouse button to get the Add menu, and then select
 Add &rarr; ThreadGroup.</p>


 <p>You should now see the Thread Group element under Test Plan.  If you do not
 see the element, then "expand" the Test Plan tree by clicking on the
 Test Plan element.</p>


 <p>Next, you need to modify the default properties.  Select the Thread Group element
 in the tree, if you have not already selected it. You should now see the Thread
 Group Control Panel in the right section of the JMeter window (see Figure 4.1
 below)</p>


 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.1. Thread Group with Default Values"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.1. Thread Group with Default Values</figcaption>
 </figure>


 <p>Start by providing a more descriptive name for our Thread Group. In the name
 field, enter JMeter Users.</p>


 <p>Next, increase the number of users (called threads) to 5.</p>


 <p>In the next field, the Ramp-Up Period, leave the default value of 1
 seconds.  This property tells JMeter how long to delay between starting each
 user. For example, if you enter a Ramp-Up Period of 5 seconds, JMeter will
 finish starting all of your users by the end of the 5 seconds.  So, if we have
 5 users and a 5 second Ramp-Up Period, then the delay between starting users
 would be 1 second (5 users / 5 seconds = 1 user per second).  If you set the
 value to 0, then JMeter will immediately start all of your users.</p>


 <p>Finally enter a value of 2 in
 the Loop Count field.  This property tells JMeter how many times to repeat your
 test. If you enter a loop count value of 1, then JMeter will run your test only
 once. To have JMeter repeatedly run your Test Plan, select the Forever
 checkbox.</p>


 <div class="clear"></div>
 <div class="note">In most applications, you have to manually accept
 changes you make in a Control Panel.  However, in JMeter, the Control Panel
 automatically accepts your changes as you make them.  If you change the
 name of an element, the tree will be updated with the new text after you
 leave the Control Panel (for example, when selecting another tree element).</div>
 <div class="clear"></div>


 <p>See Figure 4.2 for the completed JMeter Users Thread Group.</p>


 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup2.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup2.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.2. JMeter Users Thread Group"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.2. JMeter Users Thread Group</figcaption>
 </figure>


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 <h1 id="adding_defaults">4.2 Adding Default HTTP Request Properties<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_defaults" title="Link to here">&para;</a>
 </h1>

 <p>Now that we have defined our users, it is time to define the tasks that they
 will be performing.  In this section, you will specify the default settings
 for your HTTP requests.  And then, in section 4.3, you will add HTTP Request
 elements which use some of the default settings you specified here.</p>


 <p>Begin by selecting the JMeter Users (Thread Group) element. Click your right mouse button
 to get the Add menu, and then select Add &rarr; Config Element &rarr; HTTP Request
 Defaults. Then select this new element to view its Control Panel (see Figure 4.3).
 </p>


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 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults1.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults1.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.3. HTTP Request Defaults"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.3. HTTP Request Defaults</figcaption>
 </figure>


 <p>
 Like most JMeter elements, the <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request_Defaults">HTTP Request Defaults</a> Control
 Panel has a name field that you can modify.  In this example, leave this field with
 the default value.</p>


 <p>Skip to the next field, which is the Web Server's Server Name/IP. For the
 Test Plan that you are building, all HTTP requests will be sent to the same
 Web server, jmeter.apache.org.  Enter this domain name into the field.
 This is the only field that we will specify a default, so leave the remaining
 fields with their default values.</p>


 <div class="clear"></div>
 <div class="note">The HTTP Request Defaults element does not tell JMeter
 to send an HTTP request.  It simply defines the default values that the
 HTTP Request elements use.</div>
 <div class="clear"></div>


 <p>See Figure 4.4 for the completed HTTP Request Defaults element</p>


 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults2.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults2.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.4. HTTP Defaults for our Test Plan"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.4. HTTP Defaults for our Test Plan</figcaption>
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 <h1 id="adding_cookie_support">4.3 Adding Cookie Support<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_cookie_support" title="Link to here">&para;</a>
 </h1>

 <p>Nearly all web testing should use cookie support, unless your application
 specifically doesn't use cookies.  To add cookie support, simply add an
 <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Cookie_Manager">HTTP Cookie Manager</a> to each <a href="test_plan.html#thread_group">Thread
 Group</a> in your test plan.  This will ensure that each thread gets its own
 cookies, but shared across all <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request">HTTP Request</a> objects.</p>


 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-cookie-manager.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-cookie-manager.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.5. HTTP Cookie Manager"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.5. HTTP Cookie Manager</figcaption>
 </figure>


 <p>To add the <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Cookie_Manager">HTTP Cookie Manager</a>, simply select the
 <a href="test_plan.html#thread_group">Thread Group</a>, and choose Add &rarr;
 Config Element &rarr; HTTP
 Cookie Manager, either from the Edit Menu, or from the right-click pop-up menu.</p>

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 <h1 id="adding_requests">4.4 Adding HTTP Requests<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_requests" title="Link to here">&para;</a>
 </h1>


 <p>In our Test Plan, we need to make two HTTP requests. The first one is for the
 JMeter home page (http://jmeter.apache.org/), and the second one is for the
 Changes page (http://jmeter.apache.org/changes.html).</p>


 <div class="clear"></div>
 <div class="note">JMeter sends requests in the order that they appear in the tree.</div>
 <div class="clear"></div>


 <p>Start by adding the first <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request">HTTP Request</a>
 to the JMeter Users element (Add &rarr; Sampler &rarr; HTTP Request).
 Then, select the HTTP Request element in the tree and edit the following properties
 (see Figure 4.6):
 <ol>

 <li>Change the Name field to "Home Page".</li>

 <li>Set the Path field to "/".  Remember that you do not have to set the Server
 Name field because you already specified this value in the HTTP Request Defaults
 element.</li>

 </ol>

 </p>


 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request1.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request1.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.6. HTTP Request for JMeter Home Page"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.6. HTTP Request for JMeter Home Page</figcaption>
 </figure>


 <p>Next, add the second HTTP Request and edit the following properties (see
 Figure 4.7:
 <ol>

 <li>Change the Name field to "Changes".</li>

 <li>Set the Path field to "/changes.html".</li>

 </ol>

 </p>


 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request2.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request2.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.7. HTTP Request for JMeter Changes Page"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.7. HTTP Request for JMeter Changes Page</figcaption>
 </figure>


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 <h1 id="adding_listener">4.5 Adding a Listener to View Store the Test Results<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_listener" title="Link to here">&para;</a>
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 <p>The final element you need to add to your Test Plan is a
  <a href="component_reference.html#listeners">Listener</a>. This element is
 responsible for storing all of the results of your HTTP requests in a file and presenting
 a visual model of the data.</p>


 <p>Select the JMeter Users element and add a <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#Graph_Results">Graph Results</a> listener (Add &rarr; Listener
 &rarr; Backend Listener).</p>


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 <h1 id="logging_in">4.6 Logging in to a web-site<a class="sectionlink" href="#logging_in" title="Link to here">&para;</a>
 </h1>

 <p>
 It's not the case here, but some web-sites require you to login before permitting you to perform certain actions.
 In a web-browser, the login will be shown as a form for the user name and password,
 and a button to submit the form.
 The button generates a POST request, passing the values of the form items as parameters.
 </p>

 <p>
 To do this in JMeter, add an HTTP Request, and set the method to POST.
 You'll need to know the names of the fields used by the form, and the target page.
 These can be found out by inspecting the code of the login page.
 [If this is difficult to do, you can use the <a href="component_reference.html#HTTP_Proxy_Server">JMeter Proxy Recorder</a> to record the login sequence.]
 Set the path to the target of the submit button.
 Click the Add button twice and enter the username and password details.
 Sometimes the login form contains additional hidden fields.
 These will need to be added as well.
 </p>

 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http_login.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http_login.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.8. Sample HTTP login request"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.8. Sample HTTP login request</figcaption>
 </figure>


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 <h1 id="choose_users">4.7 choose the same user or different users<a class="sectionlink" href="#choose_users" title="Link to here">&para;</a>
 </h1>

 <p>
 When creating a Test Plan, on each Thread Group iteration, we can choose to simulate the same user running multiple iterations,
 or different users running one iteration.
 You can configure this behaviour on Thread Group element, and have HTTP Cache Manager, HTTP Cookie Manager, HTTP Authorization Manager
 controlled by this setting.
 </p>

 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup3.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup3.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.9. Choose the same user or different users"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.9. Choose the same user or different users</figcaption>
 </figure>

 <p>
 You can choose to clear the cookies/cache content/authorization in the CookieManager/CacheManager/Authorization Manager,
  or choose to be controlled by the Thread Group.
 </p>

 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup4.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup4.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.10. Use Thread Group to control CookieManager"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.10. Use Thread Group to control CookieManager</figcaption>
 </figure>

 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup5.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup5.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.11. Use Thread Group to control CacheManager"></a>
 <figcaption>
 Figure 4.11. Use Thread Group to control CacheManager</figcaption>
 </figure>

 <figure>
 <a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup6.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup6.png" width="" height="" alt="
 Figure 4.12. Use Thread Group to control Authorization Manager"></a>
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	<p>In this section, you will learn how to create a basic
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	<h1 id="adding_users">4.1 Adding Users<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_users" title="Link to here">¶</a>
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	<p>The first step you want to do with every JMeter Test Plan is to add a
	<a href="test_plan.html#thread_group">Thread Group</a> element. The Thread Group tells
	JMeter the number of users you want to simulate, how often the users should send
	requests, and how many requests they should send.</p>


	<p>Go ahead and add the ThreadGroup element by first selecting the Test Plan,
	clicking your right mouse button to get the Add menu, and then select
	Add → ThreadGroup.</p>


	<p>You should now see the Thread Group element under Test Plan. If you do not
	see the element, then "expand" the Test Plan tree by clicking on the
	Test Plan element.</p>


	<p>Next, you need to modify the default properties. Select the Thread Group element
	in the tree, if you have not already selected it. You should now see the Thread
	Group Control Panel in the right section of the JMeter window (see Figure 4.1
	below)</p>


	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.1. Thread Group with Default Values"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.1. Thread Group with Default Values</figcaption>
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	<p>Start by providing a more descriptive name for our Thread Group. In the name
	field, enter JMeter Users.</p>


	<p>Next, increase the number of users (called threads) to 5.</p>


	<p>In the next field, the Ramp-Up Period, leave the default value of 1
	seconds. This property tells JMeter how long to delay between starting each
	user. For example, if you enter a Ramp-Up Period of 5 seconds, JMeter will
	finish starting all of your users by the end of the 5 seconds. So, if we have
	5 users and a 5 second Ramp-Up Period, then the delay between starting users
	would be 1 second (5 users / 5 seconds = 1 user per second). If you set the
	value to 0, then JMeter will immediately start all of your users.</p>


	<p>Finally enter a value of 2 in
	the Loop Count field. This property tells JMeter how many times to repeat your
	test. If you enter a loop count value of 1, then JMeter will run your test only
	once. To have JMeter repeatedly run your Test Plan, select the Forever
	checkbox.</p>


	<div class="clear"></div>
	<div class="note">In most applications, you have to manually accept
	changes you make in a Control Panel. However, in JMeter, the Control Panel
	automatically accepts your changes as you make them. If you change the
	name of an element, the tree will be updated with the new text after you
	leave the Control Panel (for example, when selecting another tree element).</div>
	<div class="clear"></div>


	<p>See Figure 4.2 for the completed JMeter Users Thread Group.</p>


	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup2.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup2.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.2. JMeter Users Thread Group"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.2. JMeter Users Thread Group</figcaption>
	</figure>


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	<h1 id="adding_defaults">4.2 Adding Default HTTP Request Properties<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_defaults" title="Link to here">¶</a>
	</h1>

	<p>Now that we have defined our users, it is time to define the tasks that they
	will be performing. In this section, you will specify the default settings
	for your HTTP requests. And then, in section 4.3, you will add HTTP Request
	elements which use some of the default settings you specified here.</p>


	<p>Begin by selecting the JMeter Users (Thread Group) element. Click your right mouse button
	to get the Add menu, and then select Add → Config Element → HTTP Request
	Defaults. Then select this new element to view its Control Panel (see Figure 4.3).
	</p>


	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults1.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults1.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.3. HTTP Request Defaults"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.3. HTTP Request Defaults</figcaption>
	</figure>


	<p>
	Like most JMeter elements, the <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request_Defaults">HTTP Request Defaults</a> Control
	Panel has a name field that you can modify. In this example, leave this field with
	the default value.</p>


	<p>Skip to the next field, which is the Web Server's Server Name/IP. For the
	Test Plan that you are building, all HTTP requests will be sent to the same
	Web server, jmeter.apache.org. Enter this domain name into the field.
	This is the only field that we will specify a default, so leave the remaining
	fields with their default values.</p>


	<div class="clear"></div>
	<div class="note">The HTTP Request Defaults element does not tell JMeter
	to send an HTTP request. It simply defines the default values that the
	HTTP Request elements use.</div>
	<div class="clear"></div>


	<p>See Figure 4.4 for the completed HTTP Request Defaults element</p>


	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults2.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-defaults2.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.4. HTTP Defaults for our Test Plan"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.4. HTTP Defaults for our Test Plan</figcaption>
	</figure>


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	<h1 id="adding_cookie_support">4.3 Adding Cookie Support<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_cookie_support" title="Link to here">¶</a>
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	<p>Nearly all web testing should use cookie support, unless your application
	specifically doesn't use cookies. To add cookie support, simply add an
	<a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Cookie_Manager">HTTP Cookie Manager</a> to each <a href="test_plan.html#thread_group">Thread
	Group</a> in your test plan. This will ensure that each thread gets its own
	cookies, but shared across all <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request">HTTP Request</a> objects.</p>


	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-cookie-manager.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-cookie-manager.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.5. HTTP Cookie Manager"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.5. HTTP Cookie Manager</figcaption>
	</figure>


	<p>To add the <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Cookie_Manager">HTTP Cookie Manager</a>, simply select the
	<a href="test_plan.html#thread_group">Thread Group</a>, and choose Add →
	Config Element → HTTP
	Cookie Manager, either from the Edit Menu, or from the right-click pop-up menu.</p>

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	<h1 id="adding_requests">4.4 Adding HTTP Requests<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_requests" title="Link to here">¶</a>
	</h1>


	<p>In our Test Plan, we need to make two HTTP requests. The first one is for the
	JMeter home page (http://jmeter.apache.org/), and the second one is for the
	Changes page (http://jmeter.apache.org/changes.html).</p>


	<div class="clear"></div>
	<div class="note">JMeter sends requests in the order that they appear in the tree.</div>
	<div class="clear"></div>


	<p>Start by adding the first <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Request">HTTP Request</a>
	to the JMeter Users element (Add → Sampler → HTTP Request).
	Then, select the HTTP Request element in the tree and edit the following properties
	(see Figure 4.6):
	<ol>

	<li>Change the Name field to "Home Page".</li>

	<li>Set the Path field to "/". Remember that you do not have to set the Server
	Name field because you already specified this value in the HTTP Request Defaults
	element.</li>

	</ol>

	</p>


	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request1.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request1.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.6. HTTP Request for JMeter Home Page"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.6. HTTP Request for JMeter Home Page</figcaption>
	</figure>


	<p>Next, add the second HTTP Request and edit the following properties (see
	Figure 4.7:
	<ol>

	<li>Change the Name field to "Changes".</li>

	<li>Set the Path field to "/changes.html".</li>

	</ol>

	</p>


	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request2.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http-request2.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.7. HTTP Request for JMeter Changes Page"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.7. HTTP Request for JMeter Changes Page</figcaption>
	</figure>


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	<h1 id="adding_listener">4.5 Adding a Listener to View Store the Test Results<a class="sectionlink" href="#adding_listener" title="Link to here">¶</a>
	</h1>

	<p>The final element you need to add to your Test Plan is a
	<a href="component_reference.html#listeners">Listener</a>. This element is
	responsible for storing all of the results of your HTTP requests in a file and presenting
	a visual model of the data.</p>


	<p>Select the JMeter Users element and add a <a href="../usermanual/component_reference.html#Graph_Results">Graph Results</a> listener (Add → Listener
	→ Backend Listener).</p>


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	<h1 id="logging_in">4.6 Logging in to a web-site<a class="sectionlink" href="#logging_in" title="Link to here">¶</a>
	</h1>

	<p>
	It's not the case here, but some web-sites require you to login before permitting you to perform certain actions.
	In a web-browser, the login will be shown as a form for the user name and password,
	and a button to submit the form.
	The button generates a POST request, passing the values of the form items as parameters.
	</p>

	<p>
	To do this in JMeter, add an HTTP Request, and set the method to POST.
	You'll need to know the names of the fields used by the form, and the target page.
	These can be found out by inspecting the code of the login page.
	[If this is difficult to do, you can use the <a href="component_reference.html#HTTP_Proxy_Server">JMeter Proxy Recorder</a> to record the login sequence.]
	Set the path to the target of the submit button.
	Click the Add button twice and enter the username and password details.
	Sometimes the login form contains additional hidden fields.
	These will need to be added as well.
	</p>

	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/http_login.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/http_login.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.8. Sample HTTP login request"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.8. Sample HTTP login request</figcaption>
	</figure>


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	<h1 id="choose_users">4.7 choose the same user or different users<a class="sectionlink" href="#choose_users" title="Link to here">¶</a>
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	<p>
	When creating a Test Plan, on each Thread Group iteration, we can choose to simulate the same user running multiple iterations,
	or different users running one iteration.
	You can configure this behaviour on Thread Group element, and have HTTP Cache Manager, HTTP Cookie Manager, HTTP Authorization Manager
	controlled by this setting.
	</p>

	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup3.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup3.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.9. Choose the same user or different users"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.9. Choose the same user or different users</figcaption>
	</figure>

	<p>
	You can choose to clear the cookies/cache content/authorization in the CookieManager/CacheManager/Authorization Manager,
	or choose to be controlled by the Thread Group.
	</p>

	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup4.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup4.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.10. Use Thread Group to control CookieManager"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.10. Use Thread Group to control CookieManager</figcaption>
	</figure>

	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup5.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup5.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.11. Use Thread Group to control CacheManager"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.11. Use Thread Group to control CacheManager</figcaption>
	</figure>

	<figure>
	<a href="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup6.png"><img src="../images/screenshots/webtest/threadgroup6.png" width="" height="" alt="
	Figure 4.12. Use Thread Group to control Authorization Manager"></a>
	<figcaption>
	Figure 4.12. Use Thread Group to control Authorization Manager</figcaption>
	</figure>

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