Example how to integrate jmeter tests in a maven build and how to automatically generate graphs from the test results using the jmeter plugins CMDRunner.

The jmeter tests can easily be used as part of a jenkins-job. See https://mlex.ci.cloudbees.com/job/jmeter-maven-example/. The repository also contains a docker-image of a preconfigured jenkins.

This example was created to accompany a blog post: https://blog.codecentric.de/2013/12/jmeter-tests-mit-maven-und-jenkins-automatisieren/

The jmeter-maven-plugin is used to integrate jmeter in the maven build. To generate graphs from the jmeter results, the jmeter-graph-maven-plugin is used.

Under docker/jenkins can find a jenkins with a preconfigured build-job that runs the jmeter tests and archives the results. Just build the docker image with

cd docker/jenkins
docker build -t jmeter-jenkins .

and run the container with

docker run -p=8080:8080 jmeter-jenkins

and you can access the jenkins in your browser via http://localhost:8080/jenkins/.

Just execute

mvn -Pembedded-jetty verify

This will

• start an embedded jetty server wit a small webapp,
• run jmeter tests (just some http requests) against this webserver and
• create some nice graphs of the result (you will find them in target/jmeter/results).

To start the JMeter GUI, use the jmeter:gui goal. The tests are located in /src/test/jmeter. If you start the tests, make sure that the example webapp is running. You can start the webapp explicitly with jetty:run.

To just execute the jmeter-tests from commandline (without gui, without embedded webapp, without graph-generation), use the jmeter:jmeter goal. The tests expect a running example webapp, so make sure at http://localhost:9097/. The results of the test-run can be found in /target/jmeter/results. If you want graph-generation, run mvn verify (without the "local" profile).

The following maven-properties are available (to set them from commandline, simply add -Dproperty=value)