Load Testing · Junior · Question 29 of 75

What does this JMeter command do?

jmeter -n -t plan.jmx -l results.jtl

1Converts plan.jmx into a results file named results.jtl
2Opens plan.jmx in the GUI and loads old results from results.jtl
3Runs plan.jmx without the GUI and writes results to results.jtl

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Correct answer: Runs plan.jmx without the GUI and writes results to results.jtl

Explanation

-n is non-GUI mode, -t the test plan and -l the results log. Adding -e -o dir also generates an HTML report.

Further reading

Apache JMeter: Getting Started (CLI mode) ↗

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