Https Recording with New Jmeter

Https traffic recording with Jmeter had been a issue for quite a long time. With recent version of Jmeter releases, it has tried to fill the gap on this shortcoming. It had previously https spoof until Jmeter version 2.6 which didnt quite work well with redirects etc. The latest release of Jmeter (currently 2.9) doesnt use this anymore. Jmeter https recording works normally. But for some URL's , it does work straight forward. Below are the steps that needs to be applied so that you can make sure Https recording works.

Creating Basic Selenium web driver automation test case using Nunit and C#

To create selenium automated tests using C#, you would require nUnit and an IDE like VS express 2012 . To setup these, you can refer my previous blog on setup. In this blog article, I would write on how to create a basic selenium C# script and execute them on VS Express IDE itself.
At the end my previous blog,  you would have the code on VS express IDE as below

using System;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace UnitTestProject1
{
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest1
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod1()
        {
        }
    }
}

How to setup C#,nUnit and selenium client drivers on VSExpress for Automated tests

Selenium can be used in conjunction with C# and Nunit to build robust automated test cases. This blog is one of the How to series on selenium-C# that help novice automation tester to learn and build automation test cases.
In this blog, I would be explaining the how to setup tools for Selenium web driver automation.
To build selenium webdriver automation test cases in C# and Nunit, you would require to setup

How to schedule Rational Performance tester(RPT) tests or execute them from command line

For some cases, one might find himself in a situation where in , he may require to schedule a test to run late night or later point in time. To achieve this with Rational Performance tester, it can be done by scheduling a window task to run a batch file(or crontab to run a shell script) containing the command line that execute the tests

Tips on Rational Performance Tester (RPT) Datapool

After all the time, being used to csv/excel files , when I had to face Datapool in RPT , it wasn’t easy at first on how to manipulate data pool. It became trickily more difficult to handle when the data files grew for larger tests. Below are few of the tricks that helped me to overcome the clumsiness I had with datapool.