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
>

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