Default JMeter Property file is overwritten instead of merging the user defined properties

[ganginenisarath]

• Java version - 1.8.0_231

• JMeter-Maven-Plugin - 3.0.0

• When we do not specify jmeter.properties file under src/test/jmeter folder and run the test, then in the bin folder, we can see that there are some default jmeter.properties.

• But when we create a file jmeter.properties* file under src/test/jmeter folder and specify some properties say summariser.name=summary, instead of merging this property into the default jmeter.properties in the bin folder it is overwriting all of the default properties.

Due to this the values though we specify some properties user.properties under src/test/jmeter or pom.xml the properties are not getting reflected.

[Ardesco]

If I'm understanding your report correctly, this is by design.

We always take the default jmeter.properties file supplied by Jmeter and then add to it if you do not supply a base jmeter.properties file.

If you supply a base jmeter.properties file, we make the assumption that you don't want to base your tests on the default one provided by JMeter because you have gone to the trouble of building your own version of the file. In this instance we throw away the default jmeter.properties file and use the one supplied by you instead.