JMeter Videos

RedLine13 has partnered with Pragmatic Test Labs to develop a new series of JMeter videos. Pragmatic Test Labs is a Software Testing company based in Sri Lanka. They provide services ranging from manual E2E testing, test automation to performance testing. Janesh Kodikara is the founder/CEO of Pragmatic Test Labs and an experienced software tester, test automation/JMeter trainer. Janesh has also started JMeter Facebook group to create a platform for performance testers around the world. It currentlyRead More →

JMeter Throughput Controlling

Performance testing is a type of non functional testing intended to determine the responsiveness, throughput, reliability, and/or scalability of a system under a given workload. Throughput is the number of units of work that can be handled per unit of time; for instance, number of requests per second (RPS) , calls per day, hits per second, reports per year, etc.  In this video controlling the throughput is demonstrated. Throughput is a business concern. Throughput can beRead More →

Tags

RedLine13 Tags are user-defined and can be easily added to any test. Now you can maintain and track tests. If your team runs lots of load tests, you’ll love RedLine13 Tags.  This is in addition to the new Projects feature which automatically groups together tests with the same test name. You now have two new ways to maintain and track your tests: Tags and Projects. All RedLine13 Premium subscriptions include tags and projects. Three RedLine13 TagsRead More →

JMeter has become the industry standard for load testing. If you don’t know, JMeter is an Apache project used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of various services, with a focus on web applications. This post will talk about some very different companies and their efforts to scale their JMeter tests. If you are running JMeter locally and need to simulate many concurrent users, there are limitations on the number ofRead More →

BlazeMeter vs. RedLine13

We keep hearing from companies that have left BlazeMeter. They’ve told us how expensive BlazeMeter became. And they were tired of paying so much more than they used to.  We’ve heard from former BlazeMeter customers, big and small. They said one of the following: BlazeMeter was simply too expensive BlazeMeter got expensive and they didn’t understand why BlazeMeter was going to get expensive and there was nothing they could do And there were also companies whoRead More →

Steps to JMeter Scaling

We have been asked some questions on how JMeter scaling works. First a little background and then we’ll talk about how you can do it.  If you are running JMeter locally and you need to simulate a larger number of concurrent users, there are limitations on the number of concurrent users you can run. It depends on the CPU and memory of the machine. And running a large test on a single machine can quickly hitRead More →

JMeter Tips for optimizing test plan RedLine13

While Apache Jmeter is packed with features and is extremely powerful, this popular testing tool can be a little daunting at times for first-time user that want to optimize their test plans. In this article we are going to take a look at 8 useful tips for optimizing JMeter tests plans which in turn help you become a more efficient tester. Don’t run Production Load Tests in GUI Mode While it’s okay to run small testsRead More →

Most load testing tools offer a free version. There are typically many limitations that companies put on you when they offer free load testing. If you don’t like limitations, then you’ll probably want to check out RedLine13. Limitations Here is a common set of free load testing limitations that you’ll find on load testing subscriptions: Number of tests Test duration vCPUs (for load test servers) RedLine13 Free Load Testing Here is what RedLine has to sayRead More →

RedLine13 Test Management

RedLine13 Projects If your team runs lots of load tests, you’ll like the new RedLine13 Projects. Projects automatically groups together tests. There is also a Project Dashboard. From the Dashboard you can see your Projects and the last five tests and the results for each Project. And a new one-click Rerun button is available on the Dashboard. You can also use RedLine13 user-defined Tags to give you even more control. Read about RedLine13 Tags. Both featuresRead More →

non-JMeter files

RedLine13 lets you take the load test results of non-JMeter tests and do anything you would with JMeter results. That means you can use Redline13 to generate a JMeter Dashboard report for a JMeter test and any other test types. RedLine13 does this by generating a .JTL file for all test types, not just JMeter tests. We suggest downloading your merged .JTL file and load it in JMeter. Open JMeter and just add a listener whichRead More →