Taurus from Blazemeter seems really to have a potential to be a star. There are new and easy ways to ease the workflow with JMeter. It allows, for example, configuration options and reports which JMeter does not offer by default.

Installation

# install via pip
$ sudo pip install bzt

On error look for installed libxml2 and libxslt libraries!

Usage

├── example.jmx
├── example.yml
└── requirements.txt

bzt==0.5.0

You don`t need jMeter or jMeter PlugIns installed! All will automatically downloaded in given path (see YAML).

---
modules:
  jmeter:
    path: ~/.bzt/jmeter-taurus/bin/jmeter
    download-link: http://apache.claz.org/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-{version}.zip
    version: 2.13

execution:
  scenario:
    script: example.jmx
    variables:
      MY_TARGET_HOST: softwaretester.info

reporting:
  - module: console
  - module: final_stats
    summary: true
    percentiles: true
    test-duration: true
  - module: junit-xml
    filename: report/report.xml
    data-source: sample-labels

example.jmx

Create a JMeter testplan with “User Defined Variables”, one “Thread” with one “HTTP Request Defaults” and some “HTTP Requests”.

On “User Defined Variables” – “Name” insert “MY_TARGET_HOST” this value will be set by Taurus YAML file.

On “HTTP Request Defaults” – “WebServer” use the variable (MY_TARGET_HOST).

Running JMeter test

# running headless by yaml file
$ bzt example.yml

# running headless by jmx file
$ bzt example.jmx

# running with JMeter GUI by yaml file
$ bzt example.yml -gui

# running with JMeter GUI by jmx file
$ bzt example.jmx -gui

Two folders will created on each test run. “report” (configured in YAML) and “Artifacts” (as Date/Time string). Attention – report.xml will replaced on each run!