Jmeter supprorts http,ftp requests,soap or xml requests,jdbc and ldap requests.
If we right click test plan we have option of add-->threads-->thread group.
Threads are virtual users we can add to our test plan.We add a new thread group and name it 10Users. Put any comments.Put number of thread =1
Ramp-Up period =1sec.(Ramp-Up period is the amount of time we want our users in the system.
Then right click the thread group and add controller and add Sample controller.
Controller is used to organise the code. Then we go right click controller and select add sampler and then we select the type of request we want.Here we select Http request.So sampler is basically a request.
We can change the name of request to anything. we can change its name to java.
Web Server Server name-google.com Http Request
Implementiontation-java
Method -Get
Then we can right click Thread group we created and add listeners-->view result screen.
Then we can press the start button or go to start run to run the script.It will ask us to save the script before running it.
We can save it anywhere and give it any name and its extension will be jmx.
After saving we run it and then go to view result screen and see the results.If there is a green triangle with a tick mark on it,it means the requuest went well.