Jmeter/Selenium - How do I access specific endpoint - selenium

I have a simple performance test flow in an application.
Login
Process1
Process2
Process3
Logout
I am using Jmeter/Selenium to do a performance testing. I am currently debugging an endpoint in Process3("/example/path"). The problem is that I have to run the entire automation for me to get to that endpoint in Process3. Is there a way to skip the processes and navigate to that specific endpoint(not headless)? For example:
WDS.sampleResult.sampleStart();
WDS.browser.get("https://domain/path/path/endpoint");
//Authentication
implicitFind(pkg.By.id("username")).sendKeys("user");
implicitFind(pkg.By.id("password")).sendKeys("password");
implicitFind(pkg.By.id("login")).click();
//below code would be for debugging endpoint in UI
When I run WebDriver Sampler, it presents the login page, which I do not mind asking to login. But after I login, webapp does not go to endpoint and throws a NullPointerException. Would I need to add a Cookie Manager? If so, how would I go with doing this using a WebDriver Sampler. If no, is there another way to successfully achieve this? Thanks in advance.

If the application doesn't properly redirect you to the "endpoint" after logging in - it's your application problem only, there is nothing you can do about it on JMeter or Selenium level.
It you want to run Process 3 only and skip Process 1 and Process 2 just temporarily disable them using "Disable" or "Toggle" context menu actions
As you can see the "greyed out" samplers are not executed.
HTTP Cookie Manager relates only to HTTP Request samplers, https://www.selenium.dev/ is a browser automation framework and browsers handle cookies automatically

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JMeter - Trouble signing into a simple authentication website while recording

I have been trying to resolve this for some time now. I tried googling for this problem but didn't manage to find anything. All the questions I found were about replaying already recorded HTTPS requests.
So, I need to record HTTPS requests on a site protected with simple authentication (the pop-up window asking for username and password).
And this is where I get stuck. I enter correct login details and confirm it, nothing happens and in a second i get prompted to enter login details again, no error message nothing. When I press ESC I get 401 UNAUTHORIZED error.
Basically the site is acting as if the login details were incorrect when in fact I tried the same login details without Jmeter's proxy and the server accepted it.
What I tried:
1) Logging into this site without JMeter's proxy - works without problem
2) Recording different HTTPS site with JMeter's proxy - I tried my email and that works correctly as well
I should also mention that I am behind a company proxy, but I tried it at home and the result was same.
As for JMeter configuration, I am using everything on default having:
Thread Group
HTTP Cache Manager
HTTP Cookie Manager
HTTP Request Defaults
Recording Controller
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder
Guessing the Thread Group doesn't really matter since I don't run any tests, only recording.
Additional Details:
Server:IIS
Logging into sharepoint website
EDIT:
Forgot to mention I tried already Blazemeter Extension, but when i try to record the logging session, it just freezes. Website hangs on trying to contact Blazemeter Cloud and Blazemeter plugin freezes, making it imposssible to stop recording and having to restart whole browser.
Also just noticed that when I am already logged in and try to access the site it records it without any issue. So it's only the login which is problematic for some reason.
JMeter removes cookies and authorization headers while recording.
You can use JMeter Chrome Extension as an alternate way of recording your test scenario.
In order to properly replay the recorded script you'll need to add HTTP Authorization Manager to it .
Sharepoint can have different authentication types, i.e.
Basic HTTP Authentication
Windows Integrated Authentication (NTLM)
Kerberos
See Windows Authentication with Apache JMeter guide to learn how to bypass each authentication challenge in your JMeter test.
So I was able to finally resolve this. The issue lied in sharepoint authentication. I was logged in a domain with my personal account, but was trying to access the sharepoint using a different account.
Sharepoint ignored the login details I was prompted to enter and used mw domain credentials instead. So the answer for me was to access the sharepoint website while being logged into domain(windows) with the same account.

JMeter's ResourceLastAccessedTime GET request failed

I am trying to use JMeter to test our Web Application. We originally used LoadComplete to test our Web Application, but because LoadComplete is not able to run on a non-GUI mode, we were not able to use the max stat’s from our test server (strain our 8 CPU’s and 8GB’s of RAM). That is why I moving towards JMeter (https://blazemeter.com/blog/5-ways-launch-jmeter-test-without-using-jmeter-gui).
The test includes logging in, choosing a specific app, do a simple task through this app and then end the recording. The HTTP Requests, which are failing are printing Failed Access on their Response Data on the View Results Tree.
I used the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder to record each HTTP request. My JMeter project is failing on a few different HTTP Requests, which includes oauthtoken Get Request that includes jessionid="item", a GET resourceLastAccessedTime Request, and a couple GET resourceLastAccessedTime Requests. I tried to follow blazementer's guidance for how to use JMeter for Login Authentication, because these requests seem to be involved with the authentication of each user after logging in and the problem I am getting on Response data for each of these requests on the View Results Tree it says Access denied. (https://docs.blazemeter.com/customer/portal/articles/1743663-how-to-use-jmeter-for-login-authentication-).
One of the steps is to "copy and paste" the Parameters from the Post request after you login to these requests. I can add these parameters to these requests right below where it says Send Parameters with the request, but our POST request only has two parameters (the login name and the password). Is there somewhere else to look for these parameters?
I tried a combination of a lot of different attempts, but I am still unsuccessful (meaning: I moved the Regular Expression Extractor to a few different HTTP requests and I moved which HTTP requests to put those parameters and I have not been successful yet).
Do you know of a URL that could be helpful for this?
Don't trust Test Script Recorder! It doesn't follow any logic while recording your requests. It just records requests processed through proxy as they are. In case you use parameters that can't be defined as constants, the best way would be to rewrite the script manually.
Be patient and spend some hours (only once!) to learn how to construct any test scenarios (even complex) manually using Jmeter GUI. It will save you a lot of time for debugging.
It seems like (just a guess) that your test scenario doesn't contain Cookie Manager item. Based on what you wrote above, it seems like after logging to serer (by sending POST with login and password) it sets some cookies by Set-Cookie HTTP header. These cookies should be included in every next request as a prove that you successfully logged in before (the most common logic for simple web applications). So, if you get Access Denied, means you didn't include appropriate cookies in test request. Use Cookie Manager for that.
Feel free to ping me in case you need any assistance.
Jmeter help manual is all you need to know about how each element works.
P.S.: Jmeter also can generate distributed load from multiple slave servers, in GUI and CLI modes both. So, in case you need to stress your server yout, Jmeter is the best choise.
And welcome to Jmeter users family! Good luck.

selenium: use my local cookie to test website behind login?

On my computer, can I login to my web app, grab the cookie values, and have my selenium script use it to test the web app without having to login?
Is it also possible to modify the cookie expiration after logging in on my computer so that the cookie will won't expire when the selenium tests are running?
Is it possible to avoid having to write additional selenium logic to use the login form? If not, does it raise a cookie expired exception so that I know I need to re-login?
What about testing cookieless session webapps like Meteor.js?
Using .NET I know you can set the cookies, or at least retrieve them. Try placing your cookies there.
driver.Manage().Cookies = Your_Cookie_Object_Here;

How to test win Selenium 2 if site is active at all then test if basic http authentication is present or failed?

I first need to know if the site is present at all, such as when the connection is refused rather than a browser error or something, then test basic http authentication is present or failed, ie to know that the failure is due to the presence of http authentication.
I first want to find out if a failure is due to http authentication, then if it is try with a password and find out if that also fails or not.
As you can see here: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/RoadMap
Support HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication: Not Started
So just wait for it.
If a site is present you can check by testing if a specific element you expect to appear is present or not. Therefore you need a timeout (maybe 30 sec.) after which you can mark the test as a fail if the element didn't appear in that time.
Just to add - only way to go to HTTP Basic authentification site is via loading URL like:
http://username:password#the-site.com
I suggest having test which loads page via this URL - then you know that HTTP basic auth is there
Its kinda workaround solution, but there is nothing better yet

How do you test pages that require authentication with Selenium?

I need to test a web application using Selenium. The app is fairly common in its setup: it requires signing in for most of the functionality to be exposed. Upon loading a page, if the user is not authenticated, it will redirect to a login form and then back to the requested page once credentials are supplied.
What's the usual way to go around this with Selenium? I take it people are not logging in on every single test as this would cause significant overhead on big test suites. Is there a way to set up a session in a test and then use the cookie information for subsequent tests, or do a conditional sign-in (without incurring in massive code repetition!)?
I am using PHPUnit with Selenium ATM.
Thank you!
Gonzalo
(I'm using C#+NUnit+Selenium RC)
Most of the time, each test goes through the login form. However, if I'm writing a series of tests that are very short (< 10 seconds each) and there are a lot of them, I usually share the same browser instance across tests by moving the selenium start\close calls from the SetUp\TearDown methods to the Test Fixture SetUp\TearDown methods. This avoids the cost of re-authenticating as well as the cost of launching a new browser every time. I'm sure you can do something similar with PHPUnit.
If this is basic http auth you can use the username/password with the url request as documented in the Selenium FAQ: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SEL/Selenium+Core+FAQ#SeleniumCoreFAQ-HowdoIuseSeleniumtologintositesthatrequireHTTPbasicauthentication%28wherethebrowsermakesamodaldialogaskingforcredentials%29%3F
How do I use Selenium to login to
sites that require HTTP basic
authentication (where the browser
makes a modal dialog asking for
credentials)?
Use a username and password in the
URL, as described in RFC 1738: Test
Type open
http://myusername:myuserpassword#myexample.com/blah/blah/blah
Note that on Internet Explorer this
won't work, since Microsoft has
disabled usernames/passwords in URLs
in IE. However, you can add that
functionality back in by modifying
your registry, as described in the
linked KB article. Set an
"iexplore.exe" DWORD to 0 in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE.
If you don't want to modify the
registry yourself, you can always just
use Selenium Remote Control, which
automatically sets that that registry
key for you as of version 0.9.2.