Testing AJAX-centric Google Map application using JMeter

Most of the application now have partial page refresh instead of whole page loading. There are lot of asynchronous server requests made from within the client in Ajax-centric application.

Before start recording make sure you have imported your ApacheJMeterTemporaryRootCA.crt in Mozilla and you have set value of network.http.accept-encoding to true by typing about:config in mozilla address bar.

Step 1: Launch JMeter

Step 2: Select Template and click on Create.

Step 3: Right click on "HTTP(S) Test Script recorder" and enable it

Step 4: Save your test plan if not already saved

Step 5: Click on Start

Step 6: Open https://maps.google.com in Mozilla

Step 7: Perform some search

Step 8: Stop recording and run your test