jmete Installation

You need to do the following steps in order to get JMeter installed and running in your computer:
  • First of all you have to install Java. You need a JRE 1.6 or above installed in your machine. To do this, just go to the Oracle download site and install the package suitable for your system:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
  • Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the base directory location, where Java is installed on your machine. For Windows users:
1JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_20
or whatever your Java version is.
  • Append Java compiler location to System Path. For Windows users:
1C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25\bin
to the end of the system variable, Path.
  • Check that Java is installed in your machine by going to the command line and typing
1java -version
Something like the following should come out:
1java version "1.8.0_20"
2Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_20-b26)
3Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.20-b23, mixed mode)
01apache-jmeter-2.9
02 
03apache-jmeter-2.9\bin
04 
05apache-jmeter-2.9\docs
06 
07apache-jmeter-2.9\extras
08 
09apache-jmeter-2.9\lib\
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11apache-jmeter-2.9\lib\ext
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13apache-jmeter-2.9\lib\junit
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15apache-jmeter-2.9\printable_docs
  • Then you can start JMeter by going to the folder C:\jmeter\apache-jmeter-2.11\bin (Windows users) and starting the program jmeter.bat.
  • You should see the start screen of the JMeter GUI:
main screen