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Introduction To Jmeter

What Is Jmeter?

Install Jmeter

1. Go to the URL - https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
2. Click on the zip version

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3. Once the zip file gets downloaded, extract the files and put it in some other folder.

Open Jmeter

1. Go to bin folder
2. Click on jmeter.bat

1. Add JMETER_HOME in environment variables and set its value to jMeter folder.

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2. Add an entry in the path for jMeter folder.

Different Folders In Jmeter

1. Bin folder – This folder contains jmeter batch file used to start jmeter. This folder also contains apachejmeter.jar and properties file.
2. Docs – This folder contains jmeter documentation files.
3. Extra – This folder contains the ant related extra files.
4. Lib folder – This folder contains the java supporting libraries required to run jmeter.