{"id":1017,"date":"2015-10-01T09:44:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T01:01:10","slug":"record-with-blazemeter-chrome-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/record-with-blazemeter-chrome-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Record Tests with The BlazeMeter Chrome Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/blazemeter-the-load-testi\/mbopgmdnpcbohhpnfglgohlbhfongabi\">BlazeMeter Chrome Extension<\/a> is a very good\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jmeter.apache.org\/\">Apache JMeter<\/a>\u00a0test plan recorder directly in the browser. \u00a0It is a great improvement over the default JMeter recorder, which is a bit old-school and acts as a proxy on your system. Though\u00a0BlazeMeter has not open sourced or contributed this back to the community, they do allow you to export valid JMeter test plans. We appreciate this free-to-use recorder and can\u00a0quickly demonstrate recording and playing back at scale on RedLine13.<\/p>\n<h3>Pre-steps<\/h3>\n<p>1 &#8211; Create account on <a href=\"https:\/\/blazemeter.com\/\">BlazeMeter.com<\/a>, \u00a0their recorder is free with account creation.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Have a RedLine13.com account.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; \u00a0Install the Chrome Extension &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/blazemeter-the-load-testi\/mbopgmdnpcbohhpnfglgohlbhfongabi\">BlazeMeter Chrome Extension<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Video recording<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnpcuFTgUlg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Steps of Record to Play<\/h3>\n<p>1 &#8211; Get the page ready you want to record<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Using the extension start recording<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Browse through the scenario you want to capture<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; In the extension stop your test<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; Export as JMX<\/p>\n<p>6 &#8211; Inside JMeter modify the test for the proper number of users and iterations<\/p>\n<p>7 &#8211; On RedLine13 start a JMeter Test<\/p>\n<p>8 &#8211;\u00a0Select your JMX file and number of servers<\/p>\n<p>9 &#8211; Launch test.<\/p>\n<p>The JMX file generated is available on the\u00a0results page &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/share\/testplan\/18172\">https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/share\/testplan\/18172<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BlazeMeter Chrome Extension is a very good\u00a0Apache JMeter\u00a0test plan recorder directly in the browser. \u00a0It is a great improvement over the default JMeter recorder, which is a bit old-school and acts as a proxy on your system. Though\u00a0BlazeMeter has not open sourced or contributed this back to the community, they do allow you to export valid JMeter test plans. 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