How to Execute a JMeter Test Using Maven?

Maven is more of a Project management tool, which follows a standard project structure to ease the development process. Moreover, it takes care of setting up JMeter with all the dependencies to run the test.

How to create a maven project and pom.xml file?

1. Create a folder structure as below.

JMeterWsdlProject

——Src

———-Test

————–JMeter

—————– Demo-Test.jmx

——pom.xml

• JMeterWsdlProject: This is JMeter project name and you can provide any name
• Src: This is the source folder, it should be of the same name
• Test: It should be of the same name
• JMeter: You can change this folder name
• Demo-Test.jmx: This is a JMeter test script project
• XML: This is maven file, it should be at the root folder. Pom.xml file contains below code:

<project xmlns=”http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0″ xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”

  xsi:schemaLocation=”http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd”>

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>jmeter-maven-test</groupId>

  <artifactId>jmeter-maven-test</artifactId>

  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <name>jmeter-maven-test</name>

  <build>

         <plugins>

                 <plugin>

                         <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>

                         <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>

                         <version>1.4.1</version>

                         <executions>

                                <execution>

                                        <id>jmeter-tests</id>

                                        <phase>verify</phase>

                                        <goals>

                                               <goal>jmeter</goal>

                                        </goals>

                                </execution>

                         </executions>

                 </plugin>

         </plugins>

  </build>

</project>

How to execute a JMeter test using maven?

1. Open command prompt
2. Go to the root of the project of maven JMeter
3. Run below command

mvn install

4. You should see below screen where mvn starts downloading all required dependencies and then executes the test
5. After executing you should see the report under “target\jmeter\report”

6. Open HTML file you should see a report like below:

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