How to Download & Install Apache JMeter in easy steps

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Operating system Support for JMeter

JMeter is a pure Java application and should run correctly on any system that has a compatible Java implementation.

Here is the list of an operating system compatible with JMeter

In this tutorial, you will learn -

Steps to Install JMeter

Step 1) Install Java

Because JMeter is pure Java desktop application, it requires a fully compliant JVM 6 or higher. You can download and install the latest version of Java SE Development Kit. Download Java Platform (JDK)

After installation is finished, you can use the following procedure to check whether Java JDK is installed successfully in your system

If the Java runtime environment is installed successfully, you will see the output as the figure below If nothing displays, please re-install Java SE runtime environment

Please see the link for details instructions https://www.gtupapers.com/install-java.html

Step 2) Download Jmeter

As of this writing, the latest version of JMeter is Apache JMeter 4.2. You can download it here But this tutorial demos installation of version 2.9, the install process remains the same.

Choose the Binaries file (either zip or tgz) to download as shown in the figure below Installation of JMeter is extremely easy and simple. You simply unzip the zip/tar file into the directory where you want JMeter to be installed. There is no tedious installation screen to deal with! Simply unzip and you are done!

Once the unzipping is done installation directory structure should look like as figure below Given below is the description of the JMeter directories and its importance JMeter directory contains many files and directory

Step 4) Launch JMeter

You can start JMeter in 3 modes

Start JMeter in GUI Mode

If you are using Window, just run the file /bin/jmeter.bat to start JMeter in GUI mode as shown below

 How to install Jmeter in easy steps

The following figure annotates the various components in the JMeter GUI Server mode is used for distributed testing. This Testing works as a client-server model. In this model, JMeter runs on a server computer in server mode. On a client computer, JMeter runs in GUI mode.

To start the server mode, you run the bat file bin\jmeter-server.bat as below figure

How to install Jmeter in easy steps

This is a command line example 

$jmeter -n -t testPlan.jmx - l log.jtl -H 127.0.0.1 -P 8000

How to install Jmeter in easy steps

Additional Packages

Based on your requirement, you will need one or more optional packages listed below.

Java Compiler allows developers to build JMeter source code and other JMeter plugins

SAX is the Simple API for XML, originally a Java-only API. You can use SAX XML parser as an alternative to XML parser in JMeter

JMeter has extensive Email capabilities. It can send email based on test results and has a POP3(S)/IMAP(S) sampler. It also has an SMTP sampler.

If you want to test database server, you have to install JDBC driver

Use JMeter in Linux

 

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