JMeter Plugins when Executing from Maven

Question

Is it possible to use JMeter Plugins when executing JMeter from the jmeter-maven-plugin?

UPDATE

I've tried adding the jmeter-plugins dependency to the plugin definition as per Ardesco's helpful answer, but I get a myriad of ClassNotFoundExceptions. It seems like Maven is not putting jmeter-plugin's transitive dependencies on the classpath when executing JMeter. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Although this answer is accepted, it only works for versions before 2.X. But for version higher than 2.X, see this answer.

Yup, you can add any libraries you require by adding dependencies to the plugin, any explicitly defined dependencies will be copied to your jmeter/lib directory.

If the dependency is a JMeter plugin you can specify this in your configuration and then that dependency will be copied to your meter/lib/ext directory:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>
    <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.0</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>jmeter-tests</id>
            <phase>verify</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>jmeter</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <jmeterPlugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>kg.apc</groupId>
                        <artifactId>jmeter-plugins</artifactId>
                    </plugin>
                </jmeterPlugins>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>kg.apc</groupId>
            <artifactId>jmeter-plugins</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.3</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</plugin>

This functionality was broken before version 1.9.0.

Answer 2

Use version 2.6.0 or upper of the plugin

and add:

<configuration>
    <jmeterExtensions>
         <artifacts>kg.apc:jmeter-plugins-casutg:2.4</artifacts>
    </jmeterExtensions>
    <excludedArtifacts>
        <exclusion>commons-pool2:commons-pool2</exclusion>
        <exclusion>commons-math3:commons-math3</exclusion>
    </excludedArtifacts>
    ...
</configuration>

See this tutorial for a complete overview of using the maven plugin :

• https://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/shift-left-performance-tests-jmeter-maven/