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Importing Postman requests to Octoperf

You may have spent a considerable amount of time configuring Postman requests for your in-house API tests, and you wish to use them without having to create them again from scratch on Octoperf.

That's one of the many situations where Octoperf's compatibility with Jmeter is going to come in a handy.

Warning

A new and faster way to import Postman Collections has been implemented in Octoperf.

You can find more information here.

Postman to Jmeter

The first step will be to convert your requests into a JMeter-friendly format, using Postman Code Generation Snippet :

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Install OctoPerf in your company

We have come a long way since the original release of the OctoPerf On-Premise Infra 30 months ago. We have added so many features since then that it felt important to regroup them in this blog post to highlight how easy it has become to install and manage your own OctoPerf server.

I will refer to our documentation a lot because all of these features are detailed there. But documentation can sometimes make the decision process more difficult just because of the sheer amount of information it gives. That's why the purpose of this post is to follow a simple use case and highlight all the possibilities on each step of the way.

Test mobile native applications with OctoPerf

As mobility has been the trend these past years, all the users coming to a website do so from many different devices. OctoPerf allows you to simulate traffic to your website, but it also allows to simulate this kind of multi-device traffic.

That being said, to take advantage of OctoPerf possibilities, you might need to import several different user journeys. Because a mobile user is very likely to deal with a different version of the application. Thus if you record only one user journey from a computer's browser and use it for your tests, they may not be realistic.

Browser based mobile apps

To record the traffic from a mobile application, you have several options. For browser based apps, you can record them from Chrome or firefox and just use the dev tools to switch the user agent:

Native apps are a bit more complex to get by.

Let's see what is required step by step to record such an application.