RedLine13’s (almost) Free Load Testing provides a leading cloud based load testing platform for users to understand how their site performs in stressful environments. Our nearly free platform is instrumental in getting a better understanding of a sites needs and priorities. Understanding Necessity: If you’ve been following our recent social media ( twitter, FB, LinkedIn ) feeds, you’ll see some great examples of why it’s important to always test! Maintaining an online presence with a premier websiteRead More →

Making sure software behaves properly under a tester’s hands is important, but it’s not enough by itself. More strenuous tests are needed to see if it works day after day in a production environment. Software that will run on heavily used websites is especially in need of that kind of testing. Not all bugs will show up in unit tests and with single users. Automated tests, simulating aspects of real-life concerns, are an essential part ofRead More →

How to use RedLine13’s (almost) Free Load Testing with RUM methodology: Real User Monitoring (RUM) references a methodology that records every interaction of real users with a web site or web application. The capacity to monitor the way a website interacts in tests with real users is important to the development of online content so operators can see where the fault lines are and what remediation is necessary to make the software operate properly when it is really deployed.Read More →

One of the many ways RedLine13 helps our clients, is through continuously developing our services to meet the growing demands of developers and performance testers alike. In a thorough and informative case study published by evolross on the Meteor Forums, he explains his journey while running a Meteor 1.5.1 production app deployed on Galaxy, wherein he receives hundreds, sometimes thousands, of simultaneous bursts of users hitting the app. For a full read of the thread on theRead More →

We’re proud to announce RedLine13’s (almost) Free Load Testing API has joined the AWS Marketplace. Click HERE for a full view of our listings on the AWS Marketplace! If you’re a current user of RedLine13’s Load Testing API, don’t be shy. Please, take one minute to click the above link and write us a quick one line review. We want prospective users to hear about your positive experiences.  The good exposure helps us tremendously.  As a thank you, we’ll send some goodRead More →

Establishing Limits with RedLine13’s (almost) Free Load Testing Whether you’re setting up a new website, a simple URL, or even managing something as intensive as a cloud-based service for the general public, there’s one thing you’re going to need to know: your limits; the number of people you can actually accommodate all at once. If you don’t know this, then you run the risk of biting off more than you can chew when your service reallyRead More →

A frequent request from Operations to QA teams: If you want to load test I will need the public IP address for your load agents. It is a fair request from Operations teams, but by default load agents are ephemeral. Some of the expensive tools provide their own load agents with fixed IPs, which you pay a large premium for. Check box for “Associate Public IP Address” Situation: You can whitelist all of EC2 IP ranges, don’t mind changing white list onRead More →

To use specific IP addresses for your test you will need to setup Elastic IP on your AWS account and associate it to a running load agent. Setting up Elastic IPs on AWS are documented here. As the standard load agents created are ephemeral and therefore hard to associate a public IP to we recommend using a paid RedLine13 account. This will give you access to our ‘Server Management’ Feature. https://www.redline13.com/blog/pro-features/pro-feature-server-management/ You would schedule your loadRead More →

To provide finer grain control over what instances RedLine13 can start, stop, terminate we have added support for launching EC2 load agents with instance profiles. Advanced Topic This is an advanced topic and only supported for premium customers. You can read the AWS Blog Post on Restricting with IAM Policy and instance-profiles. To get started you must set up an instance profile, which is documented at “How to create IAM instance Profile“. Setting up Policy To use this featureRead More →

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We are pleased to announce that you can now use Selenium WebDriver to create and run performance tests on RedLine13. You only need change how you load the driver; this will not impact your existing WebDriver scripts at all. By using your existing scripts (or new ones), you can launch PhantomJS, Chrome, or Firefox instances in the cloud simulating hundreds or thousands of users. We have load tested a 5,000 real user simulation with a WebDriverRead More →