Test Result Log in JMeter

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How to generate a test result log in JMeter?

JMeter is used as a performance testing tool for an application or a software system. It applies the virtual load and finds out the performance of the application by capturing the response time and other stats. These stats are captured in the log file called “JMeter Test Result Log File”.

Unlike other performance testing tools, JMeter does not create the test result log file implicitly. JMeter requires external commands to generate the result log. The command line option used for generating the result log file is -l (hyphen l). This command line option is embedded with the command to start the JMeter test as shown below:

jmeter -n -t <Jmeter script path> -l <test result log file path>

Example:

Windows:
jmeter -n -t D:\Project\Scripts\TestCase01.jmx -l D:\Project\TestResultLog.jtl

Linux:
./jmeter.sh -n -t “home/Project/Scripts/TestCase01_v0.1.jmx” -l “home/Project/TestResultLog.jtl“

Type of test result log file:

JMeter generates the log file in the following format:

  1. .jtl
  2. .log
  3. .csv

Purpose of Test Result Log:

  1. Analysing the test result
  2. Get more detail on the error that appeared during the test
  3. Generate the HTML report (Dashboard Report)

Additional Information:

If the .jtl (or log) file does not exist then the above command will automatically create a new .jtl file (named ‘TestResultLog’). If the file already exists then the result will be appended with the previous result, but no overwriting.

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