Bug 59436 - JMeter tests should not use a special version of jmeter.properties by default
Summary: JMeter tests should not use a special version of jmeter.properties by default
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: JMeter
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Main (show other bugs)
Version: Nightly (Please specify date)
Hardware: PC Mac OS X 10.1
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: JMeter issues mailing list
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Reported: 2016-05-07 15:00 UTC by Sebb
Modified: 2018-11-27 07:26 UTC (History)
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Description Sebb 2016-05-07 15:00:42 UTC 
There is a special version of jmeter.properties which was created for unit tests only.

Originally testfiles/jmetertest.properties was a copy of jmeter.properties with some settings changed to make it possible to run repeatable tests.

However the property files have since diverged, which means that some tests may be running with the wrong settings. Also changes to jmeter.properties that cause changes to behaviour won't be detected.

I think it's time to drop testfiles/jmetertest.properties and fix any problems that may arise by overriding just those settings which need to be overridden for a particular test.
Comment 1 Philippe Mouawad 2016-05-07 21:30:28 UTC 
+1 for this proposition.
It is currently weird that tests use non default properties values.
Comment 2 Sebb 2016-05-08 10:15:50 UTC 
Note: the test properties file currently defines the following:

HTTPResponse.parsers=htmlParser
authorization=authorization
cookies=cookies
htmlParser.className=org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.parser.LagartoBasedHtmlParser
htmlParser.types=text/html application/xhtml+xml application/xml text/xml
jmeter.save.saveservice.idle_time=false
jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=csv
jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_counts=false
jmeter.save.saveservice.time=false
log_file=jmeter-test.log
log_level.jmeter=INFO
log_level.jorphan=INFO
not_in_menu=Remote Method Configuration,JNDI Configuration,JNDI Lookup Configuration,JNDI Request,Default Controller,org.apache.jmeter.control.DynamicController, org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.Cookie,org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.Authorization,org.apache.jmeter.config.LoginConfig,Header,org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.config.MultipartUrlConfig
remote_hosts=127.0.0.1
upgrade_properties=/bin/upgrade.properties
user.dir=.
xml.parser=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser

The log_file setting does really need to be kept.
Not sure about most of the other ones.