Installation

The JMeter plugin is provided by default with step, but JMeter needs to be downloaded separately on the controller and the following option should be modified accordingly in the step.properties file:

plugins.jmeter.home=C:/tmp/apache-jmeter-4.0/

You can now call your JMeter test plans from step by creating a new keyword:

Example

step comes with a demo JMeter test plan, allowing you to quickly test your set-up:

This script will do an HTTP Get to a URL given in parameter. You can execute this keyword like this:

Which must give you the following result:

Troubleshooting

If you have this error message instead, check the value of the plugins.jmeter.home property and verify that the controller can access the JMeter home folder: