Question

Is there a way of accessing the current script’s absolute physical path via a variable/property? There doesn’t appear to be anything listed via a Debug Sampler.

It’s incredibly annoying that actions like loading CSV files and JMX Includes uses the current working directory as its relative path.

Answer 1

• Include Controller
  As per component’s reference:

  This element does not support variables/functions in the filename
  field.
  However, if the property includecontroller.prefix is
  defined, the contents are used to prefix the pathname. If the file
  cannot be found at the location given by prefix+filename, then the
  controller attempts to open the fileName relative to the JMX launch
  directory (versions of JMeter after 2.3.4).

  You can pass JMeter a java property named includecontroller.prefix
  which can be used to prepend a directory to the JMX file you’re
  including.

  1) In case of console launch use:

  
-Jincludecontroller.prefix=/full/path/to/jmx/scripts/dir/


  2) in case of GUI – add the same to .sh/.cmd/.bat file or write a wrapper file;
  
  3) in case of Jmeter Ant Task usage – set as separate property:
  

  <jmeter 
  jmeterhome="${jmeter.home}" 
  testplan="..." 
  resultlog="...">
      <property name="jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results" value="all"/>
      <property name="jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format" value="xml"/>
      <property name="includecontroller.prefix" value="..."/>
  </jmeter>
  

• CSV Data Set Config
  As per component’s reference:

  Relative file names are resolved with respect to the path of the
  active test plan.
  Absolute file names are also supported, but note
  that they are unlikely to work in remote mode, unless the remote
  server has the same directory structure. If the same physical file is
  referenced in two different ways – e.g. csvdata.txt and ./csvdata.txt – then these are > > treated as different files. If the OS does not distinguish between upper
  and lower case, csvData.TXT would also be opened separately.

  You can declare a test plan variable that retrieves parameter value with the folder containing csv data files:
  
  e.g.

  csv.path | ${__P(csv.path, ${__property(user.dir)}${__BeanShell(File.separator,)})} 

  CSV Data Set Config
  Filename = ${csv.path}${__P(users-list,)}
  

  Setting from console:

  -Jcsv.path=/full/path/to/csv/data/dir/

  Setting for distributed testing setup:

  -Gcsv.path=/full/path/to/csv/data/dir/