Photos Plugin RedLine13

Releasing Photos Plugin for Load Testing In addition to the other plugins that we have recently launched, we’ve created a RedLine13 Photos plugin for custom load tests. The Photos plugin allows users to simulate an upload workload by dynamically creating photos and doing a Post to an endpoint. Once you have installed the plugin (see plugin installation guide), you can have the plugin generate photos and then upload them to S3. Use Case This plugin wasRead More →

Composer Plugin RedLine13

Release – Composer Plugin for Load Testing Ready for release – Composer Plugin. Composer is a Dependency Manager for PHP which allows you to install various packages before you run a load test. Users just need to install the Plugin (refer to our plugin instillation guide) and are then immediately able to get started using the plugin for custom PHP tests. How to use To include packages with your custom PHP test Include an extra file with your testRead More →

We have made writing and running custom load tests easier by opening up our test harnesses for building both Node.JS and PHP tests. Users can now run custom load tests on your local machine before deploying them at scale. You can modify the loadtest.ini file with your own custom parameters. To see the full documentation on these updates, visit our GitHub: Load Harness – Custom PHP Tests git clone https://github.com/redline13/harness-custom-test-php.git cd harness-custom-test-php.git php runLoadTest.php ExampleTest Then substitute inRead More →

A new plugin was added for CustomPHP tests on RedLine13. You can now include a composer.json file along side your custom test This is the package manager https://getcomposer.org/ with access to the packages at https://packagist.org/ Then select to enable the plugin When the test launches the plugin will update to latest composer run composer update to pull in the packages specified in your composer.json Then your test will begin its execution. This was used recently to demonstrate load testing websockets.  Read More →

Example to write custom load tests for testing WebSockets. Files Required Custom Test Class : https://github.com/redline13/custom-loadtests/blob/master/WebSocketLoadTest.php composer.json to include dependencies : https://github.com/redline13/custom-loadtests/blob/master/composer.json WebSockets Client package https://github.com/Textalk/websocket-php from Fredrik Liljegren @ TextTalk Running Test Select CustomTest Add Custom Test Class Add composer.json with dependencies Enable the composer plugin for Custom tests Select Your # Users and Cloud Options Run your Test Example Test https://www.redline13.com/share/testplan/26555      Read More →

Yes, you can do POST request types with RedLine. To do this, you will need to add your own Custom Test Script. You can find information and examples at https://www.redline13.com/blog/writing-a-custom-load-test/. If you download the first example file at the bottom, it will give you the basics of what you will need.  The main thing you will change is to add an array of POST variables as the second argument to goToUrl. If you need any help, please letRead More →

When writing a Custom test script, you need to add the ability to handle errors.  Otherwise, the test script will cause that client to fail. This happens frequently because the request failed by receiving no response or timing out.  Once it fails, that user test stops. If you want to continue after an error, you should wrap the goToUrl call in a try/catch. In the catch, add something like: catch (Exception $e) {   // Record errorRead More →

We have added an API for setting the Progress Bar.  You can use this in custom tests to set the progress bar on the dashboard.  You can see some examples below. recordProgress($testNum, $percent) – This records the progress (between 0 and 100) of a single test. This allows you to enable more accurate progress than the default, which is based only on the number completed vs. the test size.Read More →

Yes, Virginia, there is a way to test with custom set user agent strings. You can pass that in the $headers array of goToURL. Click here to go to our documentation (and feel free to see other cool things you can control): https://www.redline13.com/customTestDoc/class-LoadTestingSession.htmlRead More →