Performance Testing Can Be as Simple as Unit Testing.

Maven is another fantastic tool that helps to manage dependecies and build management. As we already know, maven takes care of running all our unit tests as part of a build.

Why not run your performance tests for every build to see if there is any bottleneck in performance?

If you are already familier with the JMeter and creating the test script file(.JMX file) for your application using jmeter, then it is as simple as compiling a Java project.

If you are not familier with JMeter then it is advisable to know this first: http://jmeter.apache.org/

Steps:

(1) Add the following plug-in your pom.xml file

<plugin>

  <groupId>com.lazerycode.jmeter</groupId>

  <artifactId>jmeter-maven-plugin</artifactId>

  <version>1.4</version>

  <executions>

  <execution>

  <id>jmeter-tests</id>

  <phase>verify</phase>

  <goals>

  <goal>jmeter</goal>

  </goals>

  </execution>

  </executions>

 </plugin>

 (2) Keep the performance JMeter's test script files in yourprojectdirectory/src/test/resources/jmeter/ directory.

 (3) Run the maven command:  mvn clean install

 (4) That's all, the maven command build, run the unit tests and then run the performance tests based on the scripts placed in src/test/jmeter/ directory.

 (5) Basic report (including success, failures, average response time, min and max response timings) in reports directory.