JMeter 3.0 is a major update from the community and one that is years in the making. For any open source project to pull off a release of this size is no easy accomplishment. Contributions from 26 individuals are mentioned and we are sure many good discussions in the forum drove ideas and collaboration. With this release, JMeter continues to solidify itself as the leader in performance testing; a workhorse that has been providing value for moreRead More →

The Selenium+JMeter plugin was built for QA teams to support functional and performance testing from the same test plan. Our plugin captures Selenium test playback which can then be downloaded as a standard JMeter .jmx file. This can be uploaded back into JMeter or run via a cloud test using RedLine13 or other cloud load testing providers. To help you get started, we will take a brief look at how to setup and use our FirefoxRead More →

We are very excited to launch JMeter + Selenium WebDriver Plugin support (in Beta) on AWS. This little update makes it seamless to launch web driver tests at scale.  Create real user tests and generate images of the results as you would a normal Selenium tests. Tested  on our Linux (Ubuntu) images Chrome Firefox Key things to know  We do not provide support for Windows/IE support If folks find this feature useful we will continue toRead More →

We have added support for controlling custom properties being passed into Gatling or JMeter test plans. This is available for JMeter and Gatling tests and in the advanced settings sections. Gatling Command Line JMeter Command LineRead More →

RedLine13 Just Got Real RedLine13 started from a need to support 50,000 users registering in minutes.   The load testing market has been full of large, expensive, closed, and locked-down providers.   There was no way for RunSignUp to scale without a large investment for initially a point in time need.  Stephen Sigwart and Bob Bickel decided they needed to build something quick for their business.  Afterwards, they realized they had something special – easy, inexpensive, and rapid load testing.  Read More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing Perhaps in a perfect world, every time code is submitted and reviewed, a Jenkins job kicks off a load test against your specific change.  However, in reality, this has quite a few issues: Too early.  Load testing too early in your process is noise Time.  Realistically, most projects are not scoped with time for this Scope.  Changing a readme file should not generate a load test For me, I have foundRead More →

Richard Friedman recently gave a talk at FOSSCON2015  on Open Source Load Testing. It covered Common Sense of Load Testing What we measure with Load Testing Simple Load Testing Process Joys and pain of load testing When do we load test Scaling load tests old way Scaling load tests new way How we monitor the results Review of the Open Source Load Testing Tools such as JMeter, Gatling, The Grinder, and many others. Why integrate load testing with continuousRead More →

We have had an increasing number of JMeter users since we announced support several months ago. We have been adding minor big fixes and improvements along the way as we get feedback. We recently made a couple of changes for large JMX files (20MB was the customer example) and large set of config files (215 was the customer example). We just deployed the ability to upload and expand config files (supports .tar, .gz, .tgz, .zip). When uncompressedRead More →

At times, we want to know the performance of our database queries under load.  These type of load tests would rarely be tested from locations outside your infrastructure.  Opening holes directly to a database in the open would be a poor security model. Redline13 JMeter Load Testing allows you to easily deploy JMeter load plans inside your AWS domain and hammer away with your queries.  In this load test, we started a MySQL instance creating aRead More →

It is not unusual for an application to require hitting a third party endpoint from your own server-side requests.  However, hitting that end point during a load test can lead to serious problems.   Vendor limits: Bing free has a 5,000 / month limit and unpublished per minute and daily limits.  Vendor policy: Determined to be hitting request limits in high bursts can get an account locked If you are determined your load test will access allRead More →