Apache Dashboard HTML reports with Jmeter Maven plugin - maven

Question

I want mvn clean verify to run following command for me
jmeter -n -t <file.jmx> -l <reports.csv> -e -o /htmlReports
I checked below similar question How to create HTML reports using Jmeter Maven Plugin 2.1.0. but it didn't work for me.
I want all data to be inside target folder, plus .jtl so that at next run all previous gets cleaned up.
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.demo.performancetesting</groupId>
<artifactId>Demo-performance-testing</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
<artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8.0</version>
<configuration>
<generateReports>true</generateReports>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>jmeter-tests</id>
<goals>
<goal>jmeter</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>de.codecentric</groupId>
<artifactId>jmeter-graph-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<configuration>
<inputFile>${project.build.directory}/jmeter/results/*.jtl</inputFile>
<graphs>
<graph>
<pluginType>ResponseTimesOverTime</pluginType>
<width>800</width>
<height>600</height>
<outputFile>${project.build.directory}/jmeter/results/BlazeDemoRequest.png</outputFile>
</graph>
</graphs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

You can do this using Maven Exec plugin, the relevant configuration would be
<configuration>
<basedir>/path/to/bin/folder/of/your/jmeter/installation</basedir>
<executable>jmeter</executable>
<commandlineArgs>-n -t -f file.jmx -l ${basedir}/target/reports.csv -e -o ${basedir}/target/htmlReports</commandlineArgs>
</configuration>
Just in case something "will not work" again here is full pom.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>jmeter</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<basedir>/path/to/bin/folder/of/your/jmeter/installation</basedir>
<executable>jmeter</executable>
<commandlineArgs>-n -t -f file.jmx -l ${basedir}/target/reports.csv -e -o
${basedir}/target/htmlReports
</commandlineArgs>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Don't forget to change /path/to/bin/folder/of/your/jmeter/installation to real path to your JMeter otherwise it "will not work".
Report generation via JMeter Maven Plugin should also work fine, if you experience any issues please show your pom.xml file and maven command output.
Example configuration you can use for reference:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>jmeter</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
<artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8.0</version>
<executions>
<!-- Run JMeter tests -->
<execution>
<id>jmeter-tests</id>
<goals>
<goal>jmeter</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<generateReports>true</generateReports>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
N.B.
you will need to copy your file.jmx script into src/test/jmeter folder, otherwise it "will not work"
if your test is using any JMeter Plugins - it "will not work" without defining them as dependencies
if your test uses external data files - it "will not work" unless you copy them to src/test/jmeter folder
More information: Five Ways To Launch a JMeter Test without Using the JMeter GUI

Answer 2

Report generation with JMeter Maven Plugin works for your requirement, you don't need any additional plugin.
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.demo.performancetesting</groupId>
<artifactId>Demo-performance-testing</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
<artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8.0</version>
<executions>
<!-- Run JMeter tests -->
<execution>
<id>jmeter-tests</id>
<goals>
<goal>jmeter</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Requirements:
copy your jmx file into src/test/jmeter folder
if you use 3rd party plugins like JMeter Plugins, ensure you follow this documentation
if you use CSV data files - copy them to src/test/jmeter folder

Answer 3

Step 1 - Create test plan and save JMX script
Step 2 - Executing JMeter tests
<plugin>
<groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
<artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>jmeter-tests</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jmeter</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<ignoreResultFailures>true</ignoreResultFailures>
<testResultsTimestamp>false</testResultsTimestamp>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Step 3 - Save test result into csv/xls file
Step 4 - The following plugin is used to transform the result
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>xml-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>transform</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<transformationSets>
<transformationSet>
<dir>${project.build.directory}/jmeter/results</dir>
<stylesheet>${project.basedir}/src/main/jmeter-results-report_21.xsl</stylesheet>
<outputDir>${project.build.directory}/jmeter/results</outputDir>
<fileMappers>
<fileMapper implementation="org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.filemappers.RegExpFileMapper">
<pattern>(.*?)\s(.*?)</pattern>
<replacement>$1$2</replacement>
<replaceAll>true</replaceAll>
</fileMapper>
<fileMapper implementation="org.codehaus.plexus.components.io.filemappers.FileExtensionMapper">
<targetExtension>.html</targetExtension>
</fileMapper>
</fileMappers>
</transformationSet>
</transformationSets>
</configuration>
</plugin>