The following steps shows how to install JMeter and using it in GUI Mode.
There are two ways to GUI mode of JMeter.
- Download and Install Java 6 or later.
- Download Apache JMeter latest production release.
- As we are trying to install on windows platform download corresponding binaries as shown below.
- Extract the .zip file to any desired location in your system. In this tutorial consider we placed it inside D drive as D:\apache-jmeter-2.11. That's it nothing to do anymore to use JMeter.
- Extract the .zip file to any desired location in your system. In this tutorial consider we placed it inside D drive as D:\apache-jmeter-2.11. That's it nothing to do anymore to use JMeter.
Now let us see how to use JMeter in GUI Mode.
There are two ways to GUI mode of JMeter.
- Browse to bin folder inside JMeter extracted folder and just double-click on bat file named jmeter. The JMeter GUI application will open in few seconds.
- Open command prompt and execute the following command and wait for few seconds so that JMeter GUI application will open.
JMeter GUI Application |