Existing Results Loader

Taurus provides external-results-loader executor for cases, where you want to load test results from existing output files, those generated outside of Taurus (JTL files from JMeter, simulation.log files from Gatling, etc.).

For example, it can be used to quickly generate online BlazeMeter report for test files that you obtained from standalone JMeter run.

There is shorthand for running this directly from command-line: bzt path/to/file.jtl -report

If you need to use some more options to loader, here's YAML config example:

execution:
- executor: external-results-loader
  data-file: kpi.jtl  # required field
  errors-file: error.jtl  # optional field

reporting:
- module: blazemeter
  test: Taurus Data Loader (JMeter)

{
    "execution": [
        {
            "executor": "external-results-loader",
            "data-file": "kpi.jtl",
            "errors-file": "error.jtl"
        }
    ],
    "reporting": [
        {
            "module": "blazemeter",
            "test": "Taurus Data Loader (JMeter)"
        }
    ]
}

List of supported file formats:

• kpi.jtl/error.jtl (JMeter CSV & XML files)
• simulation.log (Gatling)
• TSV files (Apache Benchmark)

You can put data-file, and errors-file under scenario definition also, and point execution item onto corresponding scenario. If file is defined in both scenario and execution blocks, execution will have higher priority.

Dynamic File Detection

It is possible to tell results loader that file might appear on disk later, and also have dynamic name. For that, two additional options can be specified (either on executor level, or in module settings). Consider following config:

execution:
- executor: external-results-loader 
  data-file-pattern: external-*.jtl  # (1)
  wait-for-file: 1m                  # (2)
  results-timeout: 10s               # (3)

{
    "execution": [
        {
            "executor": "external-results-loader",
            "data-file-pattern": "external-*.jtl",
            "wait-for-file": "1m",
            "results-timeout": "10s"
        }
    ]
}

It configures loader to expect file that matches pattern "external-*.jtl" in the current directory (1). Taurus will wait for this file to appear, polling it for 1 minute, as configured by option wait-for-file (2). If multiple files match, last in alphabetical order will be taken.

Additionally, Taurus will look at results it reads from file, and if there are no new data appearing, and timestamp of last result is more than 10 seconds into past, it will assume there will be no more data written into file (3). This is configured by results-timeout option.

Above-mentioned three options enable you to have custom command launching testing tool and making Taurus to read these results. For that, you can additionally utilize ShellExec module and configure background process. Full example of this approach can be found as external.yml and gradle-gatling.yml examples.