On 9 November 2010 13:07, Petter Mahlen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m in the process of defining requirements and architecture for a > company-internal performance framework controller. That controller should do > something like: > > > * Manage a number of test templates for different web services, where each > test template is a parameterised something that can be instantiated and run > against some specific server and using some specific configuration. > * Execute test runs > * Collect metrics from tested applications > * Store the results for a longish time, so that we can trace performance > changes > > We have a large number of JMeter test scripts that we’ve been using for > performance testing of the various services to date, so we want to continue > using them. I would like to have a fairly tight integration between the > framework and a JMeter load generator, and I was thinking that it might be > possible to connect to a jmeter-server process in a similar way to how the > JMeter GUI/master does it. But doing it programmatically rather than using > the GUI. Is that a possibility? I haven’t been able to find anything about > that in the documentation, so I guess even if it may be possible, it might > not be “supported behaviour” in future releases. > > The option of starting a remote shell and executing JMeter in headless mode > feels a bit less appealing.
Why? That is the most efficient resource-wise. > Any ideas about this? You can launch the JMeter client in non-GUI mode from the command-line (or Ant etc.) and tell it to run a remote test. See also https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50034 > Thanks, > Petter > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]

