Supporting the 'Include Controller' in jmx files

[erichelgeson]

I have a meta jmx file that uses the Include Controller that includes all scripts for individual projects. This a useful layout for when you have many projects going through a single gateway. I use the individual jmx files for testing individual APIs, then include them in the meta jmx file for the biblical, full load tests.

jmeter-ec2 doesn't recognize the Include Controller for things like thread management/etc, and thats probably ok as it may add a lot of complexity. Also since it copies the jmx file from the $project/jmx/meta.jmx to /tmp/execute.jmx on the remote host, the include controller gets confused as the layout locally is different than the layout remotely. (../data/ vs data/)

Work around is to copy the included jmx files into the data/ dir and as that layout matches the layout on the remote server. I have a simple bash script to copy the jmx files and the csv files into the data dir.

Eg:

project/
 - meta.jmx
 data/
  - foo.jmx
  - bar.jmx
  - foo.csv
  - bar.csv
 results/
 jmx/
  - meta.jmx # Same as above

Not really a feature request but more a work around if anyone has the same issue and to show how i worked around the issue.

[barryperez]

Thanks Eric, this is helpful. I'm just starting to look at modifying this script for my current project and this was one of the first questions which came to mind.