Saturday, March 31, 2012

How to start JMeter?


Step1:  Download the latest production release of JMeter

Download Link:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/index.html
Or
\\Server\Location

Pre-requisites:
JMeter requires your computing environment meets some minimum requirements.
•        JVM 1.4 or higher.
•        Java path is set (e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin)

Step2:  Installation of JMeter

Simply unzip the zip file into the directory where you want JMeter to be installed.
            (C:\JmeterHome)


Step3:  Running JMeter and building a Test Plan

Click on jmeter.bat (for Windows) file in .\bin directory

Then JMeter GUI should appear (Note: First time it can take few seconds to load)

1 comment:

Dzmitry said...

JMeter has weak reporting feature out-ot-box and this is its disadvantage. Nevertheless, this issue may be fixed by using third-party plugins: google-plugins or jmeter plugin from blazemeter