How to use JMeter for load testing ASP.net web applications implementing viewstate

Question

I\'m a .net developer having no prior experience in JMeter/Stress testing. I\'m trying to load test the ASP.net website that I had developed using JMeter. The reason for using J

Answer 1

I used CSS/JQuery Extractor and it worked for me. With regex extractor for view state {viewState} variable was getting passed and got view state corrupt error message.

parameters to be set in CSS/JQuery extractor are :-

Reference Name: viewState

CSS/JQuery Expression: input[id=__VIEWSTATE]

Attribute: value

The steps i followed are :-

1. First do recording of login process.
2. Drag the required pages in thread group.
3. In get request of login page add two CSS/JQuery extractor for view state and event validation each.

4. In post request of login page add body parameters as follows and run the batch.

   Name: - Value

   txtLogin - ${login}

   txtPassword - ${password}

   __VIEWSTATE - ${viewState}

   __EVENTVALIDATION - ${eventValidation}