Jmeter not executing script from command line (CLI mode) but works fine with GUI mode

Question

I wrote a script in Jmeter that is fine being executed from GUI mode but will fail when being executed from CLI mode (non-GUI)

This is the result from CLI mode:

D:\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\bin>jmeter -n -t D:\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\bin\homepage.jmx Creating summariser Created the tree successfully using D:\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\bin\homepage.jmx Starting standalone test @ Fri Mar 18 09:41:02 EET 2022 (1647589262323) Waiting for possible Shutdown/StopTestNow/HeapDump/ThreadDump message on port 4445 summary + 1 in 00:00:00 = 25.0/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 0 Err: 1 (100.00%) Active: 1 Started: 1 Finished: 0 summary + 19 in 00:00:05 = 4.0/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max:
0 Err: 19 (100.00%) Active: 0 Started: 20 Finished: 20 summary =
20 in 00:00:05 = 4.2/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 0 Err: 20 (100.00%) Tidying up ... @ Fri Mar 18 09:41:07 EET 2022 (1647589267321) ... end of run

Why is this happening and how can i fix it ? Thanks

Answer 1

You're just running your test without storing the results and from the output it seems that all your 20 requests have failed.

I would recommend re-running your test providing the path to the .jtl results file as a parameter like:

jmeter -n -t D:\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\apache-jmeter-5.4.3\bin\homepage.jmx -l result.jtl

and then inspect the result.jtl file using Excel or equivalent or generate HTML Reporting Dashboard out of it, you will see at least response code and message.