JMeter Kickstarter project.
A quick way to get started with JMeter tests. Automatically downloads and installs JMeter for you.
To start JMeter, run (prerequisite to have Java):
./gradlew jmGui
This will open the src/test/jmeter/jmeter-test1.jmx test script in the JMeter UI and you can modify/run tests from there. To add things like JDBC drivers, add them as dependencies to the build.gradle script.
Documentation on JMeter can be found here: http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/