Testing JSF application with JMeter - ViewState issue

Question

All day I try to run JMeter tests of my JSF application. I am aware of ViewState, but it seemed to be quite simple issue. I prepared Regular Expression Extractor:

Reference Name: jsfViewState
Regular expression: id=\"javax.faces.ViewState\" value=\"(.+?)\"
Template $1$
Match No. 1

The following samplers are created with proxy and recording.

First request /TourJSF/pages/protected/admin/addTourPage.xhtml. This is GET request from which ViewState will be extracted.

The POST request /TourJSF/pages/protected/admin/addTourPage.xhtml where .${jsfViewStete} is passed into javax.faces.ViewState

The second GET request, now very important in this case.

The results:

First GET. On the right we can see value of ViewState.

Debug Sampler which shows that jsfViewState value is correct. We can compare it with the previous screen.

javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: viewId:/pages/protected/admin/addTourPage.xhtml - View /pages/protected/admin/addTourPage.xhtml could not be restored.

I found some blogs and topics about this issue but many of them were unsolved. If it is needed I can put links to these topics. I am really confused...

Where is the issue? Maybe something with

• jsessionid?
• HTTP Header Manager in every HTTP Request? I deleted HTTP Header Manager but nothing changed.
• something with JSF apllication? When I added context-param com.sun.faces.enableRestoreView11Compatibility into web.xml, there was no ViewExpiredException but the content of returned page was not correct.

Answer 1

Aren't you missing a Cookie Manager ?

See:

• http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP_Cookie_Manager

Also read this:

• http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/PerformanceTestingWithJMeter