Automate Jmeter load tests with Jenkin and Maven

As you know is Jenkin is widely used  tool for Continuous Integration in performance testing, So given tried for installation/configuration of Jenkin. Following are short step to automate load testing process(jmeter scripts) in Jenkin.

1. Configure apache-maven for jmeter script repository
  #cd /usr/local/apache-maven-3.1.1
  #export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/apache-maven-3.1.1/bin
2. Create pom.xml in above repository(/var/tmp/jmeter-demo)
  #/var/tmp/jmeter-demo
3. Verify repository by - mvn verify
   -  Maven will download and install jmeter related jar in repository
   - e.g Repository path :
[root@Cassandra jmeter-demo]# ls
pom.xml  src  target
jmeter jar: target/jmeter/lib/ext/
Content of pom.xml
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<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
        <groupId>com.example</groupId>
        <artifactId>jmeter-demo</artifactId>
        <packaging>jar</packaging>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <name>jmeter-demo</name>
        <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

        <build>
                <plugins>
                        <plugin>
                                <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
                                <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                                <version>1.4.1</version>
                                <executions>
                                        <execution>
                                                <id>jmeter-tests</id>
                                                <phase>verify</phase>
                                                <goals>
                                                        <goal>jmeter</goal>
                                                </goals>
                        <configuration>
                                <proxyConfig>
                                    <host>proxyhost</host>
                                    <port>8181</port>
                                    <username>username</username>
                                    <password>password</password>
                                    <hostExclusions>localhost</hostExclusions>
                                </proxyConfig>
                            </configuration>
                                        </execution>
                                </executions>
                        </plugin>
                </plugins>
        </build>
</project>
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4. Install jenkin rpms and start jenkin ( #/etc/init.d/jenkins start)
5. Load performance plugin through jenkin UI
6. Create Project from jenkin UI
7. onfigure project for jmeter
    - In Build section, add pom.xml path
    - In Post-build Action > Add New report > Jmeter > give path for .jtl file
- Save the configuration
7. Start build. Once build complete check performance Trend

Reference:-

https://ribblescode.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/how-to-automate-jmeter-tests-with-maven-and-jenkins-hudson-8/

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Performance+Plugin