Additional property files to load in JMeter

1
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My performance test setup

  1. Jmeter 5.3
  2. 1 JMX File that contains my test plan.
  3. 1 default properties file. This is named 'user.properties'.
  4. 1 custom properties file. I pass this when I run my test plan headless.

I have a test plan that I run in the following ways,

  1. headless

    jmeter -p "customProp.properties" -n -t "myTestPlan.jmx"

  2. GUI

    Open > myTestPlan.jmx and like above I want the customProp.properties also to come into effect with myTestPlan.jmx in play.

What I've done so far?

  1. I've used the 'user.properties' attribute within the 'user.properties' file in the bin directory as follows,

    user.properties=customProp.properties

  2. I know how to do add properties files when running headless. Just now sure how to do it with GUI. Any pointers?

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2 Answers

1
votes

Just proceed as for Non GUI, but note it’s better to make -p point to jmeter.properties and -q to user.properties and your additional properties file:

jmeter -p path_to_jmeter.properties -q path_to_user.properties -q path_to_custom.properties

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0
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If you don't have any customizations under user.properties file and don't plan to have them in the future - locate the following line in the jmeter.properties file:

user.properties=user.properties

and change it to point to your "custom" properties file:

user.properties=customProp.properties

it will make the change permanent and you won't have to play with command-line arguments no matter whether you run JMeter in GUI or non-GUI modes (JMeter restart will be required to pick the properties up)

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