ITRex Chose RedLine13

ITRex is a software development and consulting company that “creates and transforms products and enterprises to drive growth.” They wrote a blog post: Why ITRex chose RedLine13 as the primary load testing tool. Their post walks through the advantages and then gives some examples of ITRex customers. One customer was an e-commerce platform owner, struggling with their response time and downtimes, so their bounce rates went up and sales decreased. They used RedLine13 to run JMeterRead More →

Though definitions may vary semantically depending on the unique characteristics of your application, there are many customers who choose RedLine13 for running their high volume JMeter load testing. In this article we will evaluate one customer’s experience on our platform, and also discuss why RedLine13 is ideally suited for your high volume JMeter testing needs.Read More →

People know that RedLine13 will save them money compared to other load testing platforms. It’s easy to think that if it costs so little, can RedLine13 support be any good? Because when you need support, you want to get good answers. We heard such positive news from RedLine13 customers at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board call who raved about the support they’ve received. So we thought we should let everyone know with a couple of examplesRead More →

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 →

Performance test automation usually refers to CI/CD. And CI/CD is an important component, but there is much more. Performance test automation is about anything that reduces manual effort to run tests, to pass information, to communicate, etc. Some companies have even created test automation groups to lead the way for their companies in this important area. We’ll get to that at the end. We’ll look at some key areas where RedLine13 supports performance test automation. CI/CDRead More →

Context-Driven Performance Engineering

At the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting, noted speaker Alex Podelko spoke about context-driven performance engineering and more. He spoke as part of a Q&A with customers and members of the RedLine13 team. Alex Podelko is a performance engineer at MongoDB, responsible for performance testing and optimization of the MongoDB Server. Over the last 20+ years Alex Podelko has supported major performance initiatives for Oracle, Hyperion, Aetna, and Intel in different roles including performance tester,Read More →

LoadRunner Alternative

The University of California had been using LoadRunner for years when they decided they needed to reduce cost. Anu Manerkar spoke about needing a LoadRunner alternative and selecting RedLine13 at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting Moving from LoadRunner to RedLine13 was really good, much more than what we expected. Anu Manerikar, University of California Office of the President Her talk can be found in the RedLine13 YouTube Channel. She specifically made a point about theRead More →

Moved to RedLine13

We feel like you guys really focus on what is core and essential for performance testing, without all the glitter on top, which is awesome. Heath Meyer, ACT Lead Software Engineer at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board Listen to Heath on the RedLine13 YouTube channel talk about RedLine13 with questions from co-founder Bob Bickel at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting, which was held virtually. They looked into BlazeMeter alternatives, mainly because of cost. ACTRead More →

What can you expect from RedLine13 in 2021? Some things will change for our customers while we are happy to say that other things won’t. RedLine13 will still be a low cost, open source, cloud-based load testing platform. How low cost? RedLine13 users have run over 1.2 million hours of RedLine13 load tests at a cost of about 26 cents per hour. That will not change in 2021. What do our customers like about RedLine13? WeRead More →