About JMeter Plugins and the installation

As we know JMeter is an open source tool, there are many plugins available in Market and this plugins can be downloaded from (http://jmeter-plugins.org/). The brief intro of this plugins are well described below

1.1      Standard Set

Standard Set is the basic plugin for JMeter, which includes common elements like Thread Groups, Timers, Listeners (Graphs), Pre-Processor, Post-Processor and Samplers.

Listeners	Active Threads Over Time
	Composite Graph
	Console Status Logger
	Flexible File Writer
	Hits per Second
	Loadosophia.org Uploader
	PerfMon Metrics Collector
	Response Times Over Time
	Synthesis Report
	Transactions per Second
Threads	Stepping Thread Group
	Ultimate Thread Group
Timers	Throughput Shaping Timer
Pre Processor	Inter-Thread communication preprocessor
Post Processor	Inter-Thread Communication PostProcessor
Sampler	Dummy Sampler

1.2     Extras Set

Extras Set plugin is an extension to the Standard Set and it has included some elements in Listeners, Config Elements, Pre-Processor, Post-Processor and Sampler.

Listeners	AutoStop Listener
	Bytes Throughput Over Time
	DbMon Samples Collector
	Graphs Generator
	JMXMon Samples Collector
	Page Data Extractor
	Response Codes per Sec
	Response Latencies Over Time
	Response Times Distribution
	Response Times Percentiles
	Response Times vs Threads
	Transaction Throughput vs Threads
Config Element	Lock File Config
	Variable From CSV File
Pre Processor	Raw Data Source PreProcessor
Post Processor	XML format postprocessor
Sampler	HTTP Raw Request
	UDP Sampler

1.3 Extras with Lib Set

Extras with Libs Set plugin is an extension to the Extras Set plugin, which need some additional libs to be installed in the JMeter. There are few additional elements added to the sampler.

Sampler	Dummy Sampler
	HTTP Raw Request
	UDP Sampler
	JSON to XML Converter
	Oauth Sampler

1.4   WebDriver Set

WebDriver Set plugin is used to do Selenium/WebDriver testing like WebDriver Sampler (Full Browser Test), AndroidDriverConfig (Android Web Browser), ChromeDriverConfig (Chrome Browser for test), FirefoxDriverConfig (Mozilla Firefox Browser based testing compatable with version 22 and 26), HtmlUnitDriverConfig.

1.5  Hadoop Set

Hadoop Set plugin is used to do performance testing on Hadoop and HBase applications.

How to Install JMeter Plugins

The installation of JMeter plugin requires very few steps like

Step 1:

Download the required plugin from http://jmeter-plugins.org/

Step 2:

Extract the .zip file of the plugin in a location

Step 3:

Copy the extracted plugin files into JMeter in the below folder order

apache-jmeter-2.11 à lib à ext