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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

You're reading from   Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins A beginner's guide to implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788479356
Length 362 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nikhil Pathania Nikhil Pathania
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Preface 1. Concepts of Continuous Integration 2. Installing Jenkins FREE CHAPTER 3. The New Jenkins 4. Configuring Jenkins 5. Distributed Builds 6. Installing SonarQube and Artifactory 7. Continuous Integration Using Jenkins 8. Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins 9. Continuous Deployment Using Jenkins 10. Supporting Tools and Installation Guide

Creating a performance test using JMeter


In this section, we will learn how to create a simple performance test using the JMeter tool. The steps mentioned should be performed on your local machine. The following steps are performed on a machine with Ubuntu 16.04.

Installing Java

Follow the given steps to install Java:

  1. Update the package index:
sudo apt-get update
  1. Next, install Java. The following command will install the JRE:
sudo apt-get install default-jre
  1. To set the JAVA_HOME environment variable, first get the Java installation location. Do this by executing the following command:
sudo update-alternatives --config java
  1. Copy the resultant path and update the JAVA_HOME variable inside the /etc/environment file.

Installing Apache JMeter

Follow the given steps to install Apache JMeter:

  1. Move to the /tmp directory:
cd /tmp
  1. Download apache-jmeter-3.1.tgz, or whichever is the latest stable version, from http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi:
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/apache...
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