Integrating JMeter with Cucumber+Ruby+Selenium framework

Question

We have a BDD framework built in Selenium + Cucumber + Ruby which we use for functional testing. Is it possible to integrate JMeter with these scripts ?

Answer 1

Have you tried ruby-jmeter gem? It should be as simple as follows:

test do
  threads count: 10 do
    visit name: 'Example Domain', url: 'http://example.com'
  end
end.run(
  path: 'c:/JMeter/bin/',
  file: 'test.jmx',
  log: 'jmeter.log',
  jtl: 'test.jtl')

If you don't have possibility to install/use jmeter-ruby gem JMeter is Java-based application so Cucumber full integration isn't something you can easily get (unless you're using Cucumber-JVM but it is still possible

JMeter can be launched as a command-line non-GUI application just like any other external command from Ruby as follows:

`jmeter -n -t /path/to/script.jmx -l /path/to/results.jtl`

or

%x(jmeter -n -t /path/to/script.jmx -l /path/to/results.jtl)

You can switch JMeter results format to xml (it defaults to CSV) and parse XML results to define pass/fail criteria. Results output format is controlled via jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format property which can be uncommented and set in jmeter.properties file, overriden in user.properties file (both live under /bin folder of your JMeter installation) or provided as a command-line argument via -J key as

%x(jmeter -Jjmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=xml -n -t /path/to/script.jmx -l /path/to/results.jtl)