Dynamic Data from JMeter JDBC Requests

A common requirement when load testing is to populate subsequent requests with dynamic data from previous requests. If you’re thinking about using a database to store static test data, such as usernames, paswords, credit card numbers etc then read on to find out how to extract this data at runtime and populate JMeter variables.

Using JDBC with LoadRunner Java Vusers

This is a short post on how to establish JDBC connectivity to a MySQL database when using the Java Vuser type within LoadRunner. Stuart describes a situation in which you might want to do this here. I’m not sure why but the example code is missing from his site, so I’ve supplemented with an example [...]