Testing PEGA application with JMeter

While testing PEGA application with JMeter, I came across an error where login functionality was not working properly. System was returning 500 response code.

All the parameters in the request were correct. HTTP Cookie manager was also added in the Jmeter script to manage sessions but somehow, the script was not working properly.

After trying many tricks, what works for me is changing cookie policy to “netscape”. This can be changed from HTTP Cookie manager. Please find below the screenshot.

 

In case, netscape is not working for you. Please try the other options in the drop-down.

Also, one needs to take care of “HarnessID” & “pzTransactionID” parameters while working on PEGA application. These parameters have to be correlated properly otherwise your scripts would not work fine. There were other parameters (in my case) which do not require any correlation. e.g. ContainerID, DynamicContainerID.