Start Time and End Time in JMeter Scheduler

asma picture asma · Dec 13, 2011 · Viewed 21.6k times · Source

I am working on JMeter version 2.5.1 and I want to set up a Scheduler for my Thread Group.

I set the following values for scheduler fields:

Start Time = 2011/12/13 11:30:00
End Time = 2011/12/13 11:32:00
Duration (seconds) = 3
Startup delay (seconds) = 5

My threads start after the delay of 5 seconds and keep running up to 3 seconds duration. But I cannot see any effect of Start Time and End Time on my threads.

Kindly tell me what do these fields do in the process of running of threads.

Answer

James Bassett picture James Bassett · Dec 13, 2011

According to the Jmeter documentation,

Delay overrides Start Time, and Duration overrides End Time.

If you remove your delay and duration, the test should run for the scheduled time!