How to have maven run just JMeter tests (no other life cycles)

Question

We're using the maven-jmeter-plugin and I've setup a jmeter profile. When I run mvn -Pjmeter verify the various maven life cycles get run, but none of them need to.

How can I run just the JMeter tests?

<profile>
  <id>jmeter</id>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
        <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${jmeter.version}</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>jmeter-tests</id>
            <phase>verify</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>jmeter</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
          <testResultsTimestamp>false</testResultsTimestamp>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</profile>

Bonnie

Answer 1

Unfortunately, it looks like the author of the plugin did not implement a MOJO that would support direct invocation, hence the plugin must be used as a part of lifecycle execution — within the <build> section.

If you need to run tests quickly, you could try to temporarily change the <phase> to some earlier one, for example validate. I'm sure, though, this is not the phase the plugin intended to be run in, so you can't change this permanently.

Waitabit

Do you know enough about implementing a MOJO that would support direct invocation to clue me in on how I could patch it to do so? Or maybe a link to an example or tutorial specific to MOJO direct invocation? – Bonnie

Annotate the MOJO class with @Mojo(name="goalName",requiresDirectInvocation=true). A starting place for MOJO development is maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/… – Waitabit

Thanks for the details, I've made the modification and submitted a pull request. – Bonnie

But the pull request is being backed out. See github.com/Ronnie76er/jmeter-maven-plugin/pull/70 for details – Bonnie

Answer 2

You can run just JMeter tests with the following command:

mvn jmeter:jmeter -Pjmeter

To see the rest of the goals you can execute the following:

mvn help:describe -DgroupId=com.lazerycode.jmeter  -DartifactId=jmeter-maven-plugin -Ddetail=true

Decanal