Timers

When you perform any operation on a website or app, they naturally have pauses and delays. These can be simulated with Timers.

JMeter sends requests without applying any delay between each sampler/request. If you perform load/stress testing on your server without any delay, it will be overloaded. This not exactly what you want. You can add a timer element which will permit you to define a period to wait between each request.

Given below is the list of all the Timer elements provided by JMeter:

• Synchronizing Timer
• JSR223 Time
• BeanShell Time
• Gaussian Random Timer
• Uniform Random Timer
• Constant Throughput Timer
• BSF Time
Poisson Random Time

The following image shows a Constant Timer Control Panel: