We learned in a previous section that JMeter can be used to build scenarii you execute against your application. It can also be programmatically executed—it is Java-based, after all—or executed through some of its Maven integrations.
If you use its Maven plugin from lazerycode (https://github.com/jmeter-maven-plugin/jmeter-maven-plugin), you can even configure the remote mode to have real stress testing:
<plugin> <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId> <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2.0</version> <executions> <execution> <id>jmeter-tests</id> <goals> <goal>jmeter</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <remoteConfig> <startServersBeforeTests>true</startServersBeforeTests ...
