How To Create FTP Test Plan in JMeter

Go to Jmeter and add a Thread Group to your Test Plan. Right, Click on Test Plan and Click Add>Threads(Users)>Thread Group.

Add an FTP Request Sampler. Right-click on the created Thread group and click Add>Sampler>FTP Request.

In the opened window, you can use your FTP server username and password. But I am using a publicly available FTP server for this demonstration. You can find the username and password form this link. Find the server called “ftp.swfwmd.state.fl.us” and “anonymous” as username and an email address as the password. Give your server name for the “Server Name or IP” section and fill “Username” and “Password” with your user name and password for the server.

We have to select “get(RETR)”  as we first try to download a file from the server.

(B) Create and Run FTP GET Request

We have to give the file location address to the “Remote File” section. To get the file location, I used FileZilla. Open FileZilla and fill “Host,” “username,” and “password” with your server address, username, and password provided.

Now you would be able to see the server file locations under the “Remote site” section. I have selected the “README.txt” file in the server to download.

Select the file’s address that you want to download by Right click >Copy URL(s) to clipboard.

Paste it on the Remote File section in JMeter and remove the server address as it has mentioned in the Server name section. Then copy the destination location on your local computer from FileZilla and paste it on the Local File section in JMeter. Give a file name to save your file. I have given the title as ABC.txt.

Add a “View Results Tree” listener and “View Results in Table” listener to view your test results.

Now click “Start” to run your project and observe the results in listeners. If you have successfully run the components, you can see the results below.

You can also refresh the FileZilla window and check whether the created file appears in the specified directory.

(C) Create and Run FTP POST Request

For running FTP POST via JMeter, you would essentially run the same above steps except changing some parameters and commands in your request which would be different from GET request.

Create an FTP Request Sampler and fill it with the same details as in the previous sampler. Hence you can follow the above steps from 1 To 3 to create FTP Sampler in JMeter and then follow the below steps to configure a POST request instead of GET request.

Alternatively, you can use your existing FTP Post Plan which you prepared using the above steps, and just convert it into a POST test plan by making changes in itself. Both the options are easy peasy!

I have selected the downloaded file ABC.txt to upload. So the “Local File” location is unchanged. Select a compatible directory in the FTP server to store your data using FileZilla. I have selected a directory in the “/pub/incoming” folder. Verify your results as in the previous section.

We have to change the get(RETR) to put(STOR) for posting a file.

Also you can use binary mode over ASCII mode by clicking “Use binary Mode”. You can also view a preview of your file by clicking “Save File in Response?”.

Response Data section shows the response data, and it is a better way to check the accuracy of your downloaded file.

We can test the performance of our FTP Servers as in the above instructions. JMeter is one of the best applications for it.