Scenario

Scenario

Scenario is a set of sequences. The sequence is a block of sequentially executed steps. Contrary to steps in a sequence the sequences within a scenario do not need to be executed sequentially.

The scenario defines one or more initialSequences that are enabled from the beginning and other sequences that must be enabled by any of the previously executed sequences. To be more precise it is not the sequence that is enabled but a sequence instance as we can run a sequence multiple times in parallel (on different data). The initialSequences enable one instance of each of the referenced sequence.

The session keeps a currently executed step for each of the enabled sequence instances. The step can be blocked (e.g. waiting for a response to come). The session is looping through current steps in each of the enabled sequence instances and if the step is not blocked, it is executed. There’s no guaranteed order in which non-blocked steps from multiple enabled sequence instances will be executed.

Here is an example of scenario:

scenario:
  initialSequences:
  - login:
    - httpRequest:
        POST: /login
    # Enable instance of sequence 'wait5seconds'
    - next: wait5seconds
  sequences:
  - wait5seconds:
    - thinkTime:
        duration: 5s
    - next: logout
  - logout:
    - httpRequest:
        POST: /logout

While this generic approach is useful for complex scenarios with branching logic, simple sequential scenarios can use orderedSequences short-cut enabling sequences in given order:

scenario:
  orderedSequences:
  - login:
    - httpRequest:
        POST: /login
  - wait5seconds:
    - thinkTime:
        duration: 5s
  - logout:
    - httpRequest:
        POST: /logout

This syntax makes the first sequence (login in this case) an initial sequence, adds the subsequent sequences and as the last step of each but the last sequence appends a next step scheduling a new instance of the following sequence.

To make configuration even more concise you can omit the orderedSequences level and start defining the list of sequences under scenario right away:

scenario:
- login:
  - httpRequest:
      POST: /login
- wait5seconds:
  - thinkTime:
      duration: 5s
- logout:
  - httpRequest:
      POST: /logout

An exhaustive list of steps can be found in the steps reference.