Troubleshooting Common Issues with Selenium Tests on RedLine13

Many RedLine13 customers have a need for full-browser testing. This is something we support with Selenium WebDriver. In this brief post we will cover common issues encountered with Selenium WebDriver tests and when scaling load testing on RedLine13. Test Never Completes Occasionally we encounter a Selenium WebDriver test that otherwise appears to run as expected, however never completes. One possible explanation is a simple one, where the driver.quit() statement is omitted. const main = () =>Read More →

Pitfalls of Selenium Load Testing

Tests created with Selenium WebDriver replicate the user experience from the perspective of the UI.  It can be thought of as a top-down approach whereby it accurately replicates the behavior of an end user. Running through a browser instance such as Chrome or Firefox, the test process itself interacts with the actual user interface elements of a target test application. This is in contrast to many other testing frameworks.  One of the most popular is JMeter,Read More →

Selenium Basics for Load Testing

We have several examples available to help you get started with Selenium WebDriver testing on RedLine13. In this brief post, we’ll go about constructing a Selenium script from scratch. We will also review the basic necessities and also common pitfalls when deploying on RedLine13. Selenium supports several languages for scripting, with JavaScript being a popular choice. The first line in our script should be instantiating the redline WebDriver instance: const redline = require(‘redline13-webdriver’); We will wantRead More →

People often ask if they can use Selenium for load testing. The Selenium website says: Performance testing using Selenium and WebDriver is generally not advised. Not because it is incapable, but because it is not optimised for the job and you are unlikely to get good results. The site goes on to recommend JMeter. We would say that Selenium can be used for load testing with limitations as many RedLine13 customers do. RedLine13 is a cloud-basedRead 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 →

RedLine13 has great news in the world of Selenium RedLine13 Integration! If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you’ll know that some of our users experienced issues when testing with Selenium in Firefox & Chrome. We mentioned in our latest blog update that Meteor Forum member ‘evolross’ experienced a few bugs while trying to run tests in Firefox & Chrome. We take our product seriously and value input from our users! Since, we’ve developed aRead More →