Sending HTML reports of JMeter integration test results from Maven

In this post I'll describe how I automated executing integration tests by using JMeter for several environments and sending integration test reports (HTML).

To accomplish this I've used Maven with several plugins;

- jmeter-maven-plugin (http://wiki.apache.org/jmeter/JMeterMavenPlugin) for executing JMeter tests from Maven
- xml-maven-plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/xml-maven-plugin/) for transforming the resulting JTL file to a readable HTML report
- exec-maven-plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/exec-maven-plugin/) for calling scripts
- maven-postman-plugin (http://doc.fortysix.ch/maven/maven-postman-plugin/) for sending e-mails

I've also used conditional profiles which act on the result from previous build steps to only send a mail in case of errors. In the following post it is described you shouldn't be doing this; http://www.blackbuild.com/how-to-really-use-maven-profiles-without-endangering-your-karma/ ('Using a profile should not result in a different artifact than building without the profile.') but I did it anyway because it seemed useful in this case.

I encountered several challenges which I will describe in this post and how I fixed them. The sample code can be downloaded here; https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6693935/blog/jmeter-test.zip