A JMeter Soak Test is a long running load test using JMeter. We’ll talk more below. But if you’re going to run a long test, there are costs that need to be understood. We’ll talk about that with an example from RedLine13 customer University of California. What is Soak Testing There is plenty of information out there. Software Testing Help says: “It is a type of performance testing to check if an Application Under Test (AUT)Read More →
Setting Up an Amazon AWS Account If you do not have an Amazon AWS account, you can sign up for one easily at http://aws.amazon.com/. Then you can get started using AWS for load testing with RedLine13. Signing up is free and you will only pay for the services that are used. As an example, if you do a load test of 50,000 users for an hour the approximate cost is $2.00 and would be charged toRead More →
Customers often ask: Which is the best AWS instance for load testing? It’s a great question. However it never has a direct answer:) As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, we’ve had a lot of experience with AWS. Here’s how we respond. 1 – First, it depends on what kind of testing framework you’re using, whether it’s JMeter, Gatling, Selenium or something else. For simple HTTP endpoint test or simple PHP/Python, start with T class. For otherRead More →
Animal intelligence meets the world of pets. Here’s how an international corporation turned to RedLine13 for soak testing of their global pet monitoring system to mitigate DDoS attacks. Sure Petcare, part of Antelliq, the World’s Leading Animal Intelligence Group, developed a system where a pet owner periodically sends information about his pet’s activity and the server processes this information asynchronously. They provide pet owners with smart devices and data that give them a better understanding ofRead More →
Most people don’t realize that there are unavailable AWS instance types in certain regions. In other words, every AWS region does not have every AWS instance type. RedLine13 is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. When you are ready to choose your AWS instance type in RedLine13, you will see ALL of the AWS instance types. But those that are unavailable in that region will be disabled so you can’t choose them. In this example you seeRead More →
Which AWS EC2 Instance Type Will Work Best for your Load Test? Before performing a load test, you need to determine the right AWS EC2 instance type. Instance types comprise various combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity and give you the flexibility to choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications. There of course cost implications for which we discus estimation of those in a related post. In this blog post we willRead More →
RedLine13 is proud to announce that we have met the AWS requirements and are part of the AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Tier for Amazon load testing tools. That includes being recognized as a SAAS Partner and also part of the AWS Marketplace. Which makes RedLine13 an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. Read about RedLine13’s open architecture. We provide an easy, accessible, and cheap means for load testing. Precisely tune and control your cloud load agents forRead More →
A question sometimes comes up: can you load test an AWS hosted site, that uses products such as AWS WAF, AWS CloudFront, and the AWS Elastic Container Service, with AWS Load Generators? The concern is that AWS networking may optimize routes and utilize internal large network pipes, etc. The premise is that that will render the results inaccurate compared to real world results. Let’s look at Load Testing AWS from AWS and what you need toRead More →
Amazon just changed EC2 pricing to bill per second https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/. You’re load testing and trying to keep your costs low. What does this Amazon change mean for you? Let’s see how you can save more with Redline13 Load Testing. Server Shutdown Setting Redline13 has added a new setting for users to take advantage of AWS per second billing. Now instead of leaving servers running for an hour, we let you choose how long they should run. That means youRead More →
Intro We can gain a lot of insight into how applications or websites perform thanks to load testing. If you’re serious about testing, running tests inside your local environment will only take you so far. Eventually you will need some kind of solution that allows you to scale. This is where cloud load testing comes into play. Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running & maintaining the hardware neededRead More →