Question

I am working on JMeter version 2.5.1 and I want to set up a Scheduler for my Thread Group.

I set the following values for scheduler fields:

Start Time = 2011/12/13 11:30:00
End Time = 2011/12/13 11:32:00
Duration (seconds) = 3
Startup delay (seconds) = 5

My threads start after the delay of 5 seconds and keep running up to 3 seconds duration. But I cannot see any effect of Start Time and End Time on my threads.

Kindly tell me what do these fields do in the process of running of threads.

Answer 1

According to the Jmeter documentation,

Delay overrides Start Time, and Duration overrides End Time.

If you remove your delay and duration, the test should run for the scheduled time!