Installing Jekins and the JMeter plugin (Performance plugin)

Jekins
1. The installation procedure can be found at:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Red+Hat+distributions

2. Check if it is working:

[root@spike ~]# sudo service jenkins start
Starting Jenkins                                           [  OK  ]

The logs of Jekins run will be placed at:

/var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log

Find something like:

INFO: Jenkins is fully up and running

3. Accessing Jekins:

The general information can be found on:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Starting+and+Accessing+Jenkins
However, it is necessary to create a tunnel in the port 8080.

ssh -f root@spike -L 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 -N

Jekins must be available at:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/

JMeter plugins

The Jekins pages recommends using the Performance plugin instead of JMeter plugin.

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

1. The easiest way to install Jekins is by the Plugin Manager interface: http://127.0.0.1:8080/pluginManager/
2. Go in the tab "Available" and find "Performance plugin" (figure below) 
3. Go in "Download now and install after restart"
4. After finish the donwload, restart jekins service: "sudo service jenkins restart"
5. Install JMeter
   1. Download it:
      wget http://apache.mirror.iphh.net//jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-2.11.tgz
   2. Extract the files to :/var/lib/jenkins
   3. Rename (mv) apache-jmeter-2.11 as jmeter
6. To check if it is installed it is necessary to create a new job.
   
   1. New Job
   2. Free-style software project
   3. Under Build, select Invoke Ant
   4. Select Advanced
   5. Target : all
      Path Build : /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/MY_PROJECT_NAME/build.xml
      Properties : jmeter.dir=/var/lib/jenkins/jmeter (reference to step 5.c)
   6. Down in Post-build Actions check the Publish Performance test result report checkbox
   7. Add a new report box and choose JMeter
   8. Set the branch to build to JMeter
      For Report files specify **/*.jtl
7. Add the build.xml at the root of the job folder (/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/MY_PROJECT_NAME/). At the end I added a build.xml file.
8. Under the job folder (/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/MY_PROJECT_NAME/), create the following directory structure (the workspace folder and all it subfolder have to be in chmod 777 "chmod -R 0777 ./*").
   +scripts
   +workspace
   ++results
   ++++jtl
   ++++html
9. In the scripts folder upload the JMeter scripts files *.jmx

Usefull references

http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2009/04/23/performance-tests-with-jmeter-maven-and-hudson/
http://jlorenzen.blogspot.de/2008/03/automated-performance-tests-using.html
http://neyto.blogspot.de/2013/02/install-jenkins-with-jmeter-performance_2208.html


Build xml:









   
       
   
    name="jmeter"
    classname="org.programmerplanet.ant.taskdefs.jmeter.JMeterTask"
    classpathref="ant.jmeter.classpath" >

   
   
   
   

             jmeterhome="${jmeter-home}"
         resultlogdir="workspace/results/jtl">
        
   



   
   


            classpathref="xslt.classpath"
        basedir="workspace/results/jtl"
        destdir="workspace/results/html"
        includes="*.jtl"
        style="${jmeter-home}/extras/jmeter-results-detail-report_21.xsl">