This is a Maven 2 plugin that allows you to run JMeter tests as part of the build. I am using this with JChav and Continuum to automate the running of a suite of JMeter load tests, and publish the results to a web page. Sorry this is not more polished. It could use some TLC to make it more user-friendly to actually plug it into a project. I just thought I‘d stick the code out there as quickly as possible and see if anyone is interested in it before I went any further with it.

To build and use the plugin:

• Create a local Maven repository, if you don‘t already have one.

• Drop in the attached JMeter jar and POM. You do not need to have JMeter separately installed.

• Add the jar files that are referenced in the JMeter POM to your local repository, if they are not on ibiblio.

• Download the attached Maven JMeter Plugin source tarball. Untar it.

• Run "mvn install" to build and install the plugin.

• In your project‘s pom.xml, add a dependency on this plugin:

  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.jmeter</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-jmeter-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <type>plugin</type>
      </dependency>

• Create a src/test/jmeter directory, and place your JMeter load tests there.

• Create a jmeter.properties file in src/test/jmeter. It‘s fine to just copy the default properties file from the JMeter install if you want.

• Optionally configure includes and excludes in your pom.xml for which tests to run. If you don‘t, it will just run **/*.jmx. For example:

    <build>
      <plugins>
      <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.jmeter</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-jmeter-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
      <includes>
      <include>myTest1.jmx</include>
      <include>myTest2jmx</include>
      </includes>
      </configuration>
      </plugin>
      </plugins>
      </build> 

• Run "mvn org.apache.jmeter:maven-jmeter-plugin:jmeter" to run the tests.

-- Tim McCune