I'm building load test plans and am new to JMeter myself.
Our system consists of 11 different microservices which all work as part of a application network. This means that there is a requirement for the test plans to repeatedly swap between requests to different host names, and authentication credentials, within the same text execution.
So, my question is, is there any way in JMeter to declare (for example) "HTTP Request Defaults" config elements in a single location, that can then be referenced at-will by requests later on?
I need these configuration elements to be declared in one single location to avoid a lot of duplication throughout all the test plans we need to build; and so they can be easily changed when our apps all change host names or credentials (e.g. changing between environments). I have been able to ease some of the pain by using variables, but it still leaves a lot of repetition.
I understand how something similar can be done with the HTTP requests themselves using Module Controller and Test Fragments; but the same doesn't work with the scoping of the config elements... I understand that the following screenshot doesn't work, but I'm including it just to give you an idea of what I'm aiming for:
Maybe it's just my naivety after coming from the ReadyAPI world (where you would first create the reusable request definition and later reference it..), but I would love to know if such a similar thing is possible in JMeter? And if not, I'd be glad to confirm that I'm not missing something?
Any help would be much appreciated! Many Thanks,
Edit: Still no luck with everything I've tried..
