How to install JMeter

What is JMeter ?

JMeter is not a browser. As far as web-services and remote services are concerned, JMeter looks like a browser (or rather, multiple browsers); however JMeter does not perform all the actions supported by browsers.

Download Lin k : http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi

- Download .zip file, copy to your Windows machine C directory and extract it.
- Open Command prompt, Locate to %PATH% /apache-jmeter-2.11\bin directory
- Run Jmeter.bat command

If you notice any errors related to JDK class path, Create a system environment variable as shown below

- Open new command prompt, and run the JMeter.bat,
- If you notice any heap size related errors then modify jmeter.bat as shown below

set HEAP=-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m

- Upon successful configuration of JDK , you should see JMeter window as shown below