If you’re using an RBU or VU you may need to extract content from the previous response. For example, enumerate a link to a PDF file for subsequent download.

The BrowserMob interface has a handy findRegexMatches method you can call as follows:

var link = browserMob.findRegexMatches(selenium.getHtmlSource(), ‘href="(.+?pdf)"’);
browserMob.beginStep("16_download_content");
browser.get(link[0], 200);
browserMob.endStep();

It takes a string input and [...]

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Think Time
Think time, is normally defined as the amount of time a virtual user ‘thinks’ between individual steps within a transaction. This time is usually excluded from response time measurements [...]