In my last blog post, i described how i have used jmeter-plugins at my current client site, now i am faced with another problem , i need to be able to run these performance test from command line, in other for these performance tests to be executed in a CI environment such as teamcity.
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Jmeter is a well known open source performance/load testing tool and to be fair it does a lot of stuff really well. if you wants to do some quick performance testing without a whole lots of infrastructure around it then it is great.
I started out my task with jmeter with some objectives:
<li> A tool that i could integrate into a CI tool such as teamcity</li>
<li> Meaningful graphs that could be easily interpreted by any one in the team</li>
<li> Able to integrate the graphs into teamcity</li>
<li> Able to monitor the performance of the website under test.</li>
After doing an initial round of tests, i didnt like the graphs which were being produced by jmeter and i search for plug-ins to enable me plot better graphs. I came across jmeter-plugins which is an awesome collection of jmeter plugins. Instructions to install can be found on this page.