[Jmeter]-> Running Jmeter JMX files from Jenkin with the help of Maven Project

 Recently I was trying to run the JMeter project with Jenkin and I found some interesting information about it. Let me share what steps I followed. 

1. First I create a java maven project in my local machine.

2. Then create a jmeter directory inside your src/test path.

3. Inside this, put your jmx file.

4. Now go to your pom.xml file. And put the following plugin and dependencies.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.1</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
            <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>jmeter-tests</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>jmeter</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>


        <plugin>
            <groupId>de.codecentric</groupId>
            <artifactId>jmeter-graph-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
            <configuration>
                <inputFile>${project.build.directory}/jmeter/results/20170319-BlazeDemo Home Page.jtl</inputFile>
                <graphs>
                    <graph>
                        <pluginType>ResponseTimesOverTime</pluginType>
                        <width>800</width>
                        <height>600</height>
                        <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/jmeter/results/BlazeDemo Request.png</outputFile>
                    </graph>
                </graphs>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>


    </plugins>

5. That's it. Now open the terminal and run the following command:

mvn verify

6. It will run your jmeter result in non -gui mode.

Before that, make sure, you have put following changes in jmeter user.properties file. (It will be inside jmeter bin file and this is needed for reporting purposes.)

jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=xml

7. Once this local setup will be ready, you can create maven job in jenkin.

8. Inside that JSON, add this command in pre-built steps.

9. In the post-build section, add this path for the report to come in the Performance report plugin:

**\target\jmeter\results\*.jtl

10. Now save the job and click on the build.