Apache JMeter to test Apache ActiveMQ on CI with Maven/Jenkins
Apache JMeter is a great tool for testing, especially performance testing. It provides a lot of samplers that you can use to test your web services, web applications, etc. It also includes a couple of samplers for JMS that we can use with ActiveMQ. The source code of this blog post is https://github.com/jbonofre/blog-jmeter . Preparing JMeter for ActiveMQ For this article, I downloaded JMeter 2.10 from http://jmeter.apache.org . We uncompress jmeter in a folder: $ tar zxvf apache-jmeter-2.10.tgz We are going to create a test plan for ActiveMQ. After downloading ActiveMQ 5.9.0 from http://activemq.apache.org , we install and start an ActiveMQ broker on the machine. $ tar zxvf apache-activemq-5.9.0-bin.tar.gz$ cd apache-activemq-5.9.0/bin$ ./activemq console... INFO | Apache ActiveMQ 5.9.0 (localhost, ID:latitude-45782-1409139630277-0:1) started In order to use ActiveMQ with JMeter, we have to copy the activemq-all-5.9.0.jar file provided in the ActiveMQ distribution into the JMeter lib