Obfuscate or Secure Jmeter Script - performance

Question

I am working on Jmeter Scripts from sometime now, there is a need to secure the Jmeter script and majorly make it unreadable for external stakeholders. My expectation is to obfuscate or deliver the script as some kind of JAR or executable. I need some ideas or workaround to start with.
Thanks
Senz79

Answer 1

It is possible to run existing JMeter script from Java code or create a JMeter test purely in Java using JMeter API so it is not a problem to create an executable binary which will run your test and obfuscate it.
Example Java code to run a JMeter test:
import org.apache.jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine;
import org.apache.jmeter.reporters.ResultCollector;
import org.apache.jmeter.reporters.Summariser;
import org.apache.jmeter.save.SaveService;
import org.apache.jmeter.util.JMeterUtils;
import org.apache.jorphan.collections.HashTree;
import java.io.File;
public class JMeterFromCode {
public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
// JMeter Engine
StandardJMeterEngine jmeter = new StandardJMeterEngine();
// Initialize Properties, logging, locale, etc.
JMeterUtils.loadJMeterProperties("/tmp/jmeter/bin/jmeter.properties");
JMeterUtils.setJMeterHome("/tmp/jmeter");
JMeterUtils.initLogging();// you can comment this line out to see extra log messages of i.e. DEBUG level
JMeterUtils.initLocale();
// Initialize JMeter SaveService
SaveService.loadProperties();
// Load existing .jmx Test Plan
HashTree testPlanTree = SaveService.loadTree(new File("/tmp/jmeter/test.jmx"));
Summariser summer = null;
String summariserName = JMeterUtils.getPropDefault("summariser.name", "summary");
if (summariserName.length() > 0) {
summer = new Summariser(summariserName);
}
ResultCollector logger = new ResultCollector(summer);
logger.setFilename("/tmp/jmeter/test.jtl");
testPlanTree.add(testPlanTree.getArray()[0], logger);
// Run JMeter Test
jmeter.configure(testPlanTree);
jmeter.run();
}
}
See the following reference material to get started:
Five Ways To Launch a JMeter Test without Using the JMeter GUI
Bytecode obfuscation