Create your first Thread Group

🚀 Launching JMeter

The prerequisite to launch JMeter is to have Java installed in your computer. You can interact with JMeter using the CLI and Non-CLI mode. Command Line Mode is the recommended mode for performance testing purposes. But to create or edit, you can launch JMeter in Non-CLI mode.

Go to the location where you extracted the content of JMeter file e.g. C:\Tools\apache-jmeter-5.3

Navigate to bin folder and launch jmeter.bat for Windows OS or jmeter.sh for Linux/macOS systems.

If Java is installed properly, JMeter will launch as shown below.

Congratuations on launching JMeter 🎉

Test Plan

In JMeter world, you create test plans which has the file extension of .jmx. If you open .jmx file in your favorite editor, you can see the XML tags.

A typical JMeter test plan consists of at least one Test Plan element and one or more Thread Groups and/or Samplers/Other elements.

📌 You cannot delete Test Plan element

Thread Group

Thread Group is the inception for any JMeter tests. In Thread Group you can configure the number of threads/users, duration, ramp up period etc.

In this exercise, we are going with the default values of Thread Group.

Let's get started 🚀

⌨️ Activities

1. Launch JMeter
2. Add a Thread Group by right clicking on Test Plan > Threads (Users) > Thread Group
3. Go to File > Save, enter S01_PetStore.jmx and hit Save button
4. Push the JMeter test plan to your repo

After successful push, I will let you know the next steps.

Tips
📌 Whenever you want to add any type of elements, just right click on the appropriate parent element.

📌 If you want to delete any element, press Delete key in your keyboard.

⚠ CAUTION: Undo is not possible in JMeter.

📌 Instead of deleting, you can disable the element by clicking on right clicking on it > Disable.

Welcome to this course!

Before we can start learning JMeter, let us make sure you have the right setup. You need to install the following things to learn effectively.

Let's get started.

• Check that OpenJDK is installed/configured
• Check that Git is installed
• Check JMeter is installed/configured
• Clone this repository on your local machine

Points to note:

📌 Always install the latest stable versions of the software unless the version specified.
📌 Below exercises have been tested using JMeter 5.3 in OpenJDK 15.

OpenJDK

• Download OpenJDK and follow the instructions mentioned here. Similar instructions can be found in the internet for Linux or macOS operating systems.

Git

• Download and install Git for your platform from here

Apache JMeter

• Download Apache JMeter from here
• Extract the contents and keep it your favorite location.

There are additional components you can install if you are planning to develop JMeter, but those are completely optional and beyond the scope of this training.

Clone this repository

This is your workspace to learn JMeter. Clone this repository by issuing the below command.

git clone <repository-url>

Getting started

Once you have everything installed, let's get started.

Close this issue, and I will comment with your next steps.

Points to note:

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