Wait time between data row reads in a load test

Waiting for your suggestion.

Hi!

add a Delay TestStep inside your loop perhaps!?

regards!

/Ole
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Hi Ole,

If I add a delay teststep inside my loop, then the delay will essentially be fired in parallel with all the test steps. Suppose I add a delay of 100 ms and the slowest of all the test steps is 80 ms, then I get a net delay of 20ms before the datasource fetches the next row. In other words the delay that I add is dependent on the performance of the teststeps within that testcase.

Thanks,
Srikanth

Hi Srikanth!

I think that I understand what you want to do. Here's how you could accomplish that:

Create a Properties step immediately after the DataSource:

Name               Value
startingTime       ${=System.currentTimeMillis() }

Then later on in the TestCase, where you want to delay, create a Groovy Script TestStep with the following content:

def TOTAL_TIME_TO_DELAY = 1000 //in milliseconds
def startingTime = context.expand( '${Properties#startingTime}' )
def timeAlreadyDelayed = System.currentTimeMillis() - Long.parseLong( startingTime )
Thread.sleep( TOTAL_TIME_TO_DELAY - timeAlreadyDelayed )

Hope that it works and makes sense to you
/Henrik
eviware.com

Thanks Henrik.

Remember that the groovy teststep will be fired in parallel with all the other teststeps. Hence I believe timeAlreadyDelayed will almost always be zero. Therefore if there is any way I can get the slowest teststep and its response time dynamically then

def timeAlreadyDelayed = System.currentTimeMillis() - Long.parseLong( response time of slowest request )

Regards,
Srikanth