Install JMeter Plugins Automatically from Jenkins

Our RedLine13 plugin for Jenkins can automate performance testing at build time and in continuous deployment environments.  Recently, we extended this with the ability to install publicly available JMeter plugins automatically from within Jenkins.  In this brief article, we will explain in a few basic steps how to enable this feature.Read More →

Test Types with Jenkins and RedLine13

This blog will be a deeper dive into Jenkins and RedLine13 and look at executing different test types with Jenkins and RedLine13. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is a convenient way to build and test your application. Jenkins, one of the most popular open source tool used to perform CI/CD tasks, can also be used to schedule load tests on RedLine13. If you haven’t configured Jenkins with RedLine13, follow this article. You can execute theRead More →

Load Testing in a Continuous Integration Environment

In this blog post, we will talk about Load Testing in a Continuous Integration Environment and how to effectively integrate with cloud systems using RedLine13. The crucial point of the this blog post is that we are preparing our load test script just using Selenium code. Before we begin our example, let’s briefly talk about the technologies used in Continuous Integration (CI) processes in our post. Jenkins is an open source automation server and an integrationRead More →

Codeship provides Basic and Pro. For Codeship Basic integration, read Load Testing on Codeship with Redline13 – it just makes sense. With Basic you can run any command. Pro is a fully customizable Continuous Integration Platform with native Docker support. To integrate with Codeship Pro we have used Encrypted environment variables Service definition in codeship-services.yml Build steps defined in codeship-steps.yml 1 – Make your RedLine13 API Key available as an encrypted environment variable Get your RedLine13Read More →

BlazeMeter Comparison

BlazeMeter is one of the leading load testing platforms. RedLine13 has claimed that it provides (Almost) Free Load Testing. This post will first take a look at a BlazeMeter pricing comparison vs. RedLine13. Then it will take a look at a feature comparison because price isn’t everything. In addition, there is the increasing realization by businesses with the value of shift left testing. So this blog post will also look at pricing related to continuous integrationRead More →

  Step 1 – Install the plugin. Available on your API Keys page – https://www.redline13.com/Account/apikey Direct Link to download – https://www.redline13.com/redline-jenkins-plugin-2.0-beta.hpi Step 2 – Generate API Key       On your A PI Keys page – https://www.redline13.com/Account/apikey be sure to have an API Key generated Step 3 – Add credentials in Jenkins Go to :  Jenkins -> Credentials -> System Drop down global credentials Select ‘Add Credentials’ from Kind select ‘RedLine13 API Key’ Enter API Key Test RedLine13Read More →

We have released version 2.0(beta) of our Jenkins RedLine13 plugin including support for Jenkins Pipelines.  The following is available in Pipeline or FreeStyle project form. redlineJMeter – Launch JMeter tests redlineGatling – Launch Gatling tests redlineCustom – Launch Custom tests in PHP, NodeJS, and Python redlineScenario – Launches tests marked Jenkins Templates on RedLine13. All types include support for Thresholds marking a build as unstable or failed based on criteria, Success Ratio – Percentage of tests/virtual users passed ResponseRead More →

Load testing has always been too expensive to make it a part of your Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment process. That changes with RedLine13, since all you are paying for are your AWS costs – which RedLine13 minimizes by deploying spot instances and managing them for you by spinning them up and bringing them down automatically. RedLine13 makes it simple to set up with Jenkins.  Download and install the Jenkins Plug In, and then configure theRead More →