Cost-effective cloud load testing

RedLine13 is a fully managed platform that integrates with seamlessly with AWS to provide cost-effective cloud load testing as a service. Being fully managed means that the configuration, startup, data collection, and termination is handled automatically with no coding or scripting required. This means you can scale to any level simply by specifying the quantity of servers you wish to run, to nearly limitless capacity with minimal effort. RedLine13 Cloud Architecture RedLine13 is a platform forRead More →

Load Testing with Locust and JMeter on RedLine13

Eldad Uzman, Automation Architect at Merck, is the guest author. You can read more from Eldad at Medium. Abstract In this article, I’ll present to you a case study of how you can integrate Locust into your Redline13 JMeter tests to get the maximum out of your testing environment, increase your load testing coverage while reducing the usage of infrastructure and thus reducing the costs. JMeter in a nutshell JMeter is a java-based load testing toolRead 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 →

Janesh Kodikara, is a Software Quality Assurance Architect, trainer and mentor with over 23 years of working experience.  Janesh created this Pugh matrix to evaluate JMeter alternatives: k6 and Gatling.  A Pugh matrix is used to “identify the most probable solution among all alternatives“. As you can see, JMeter is the baseline and alternatives are compared to the baseline. We thought his matrix was detailed and comprehensive. So we asked him to create an additional alternative: JMeterRead More →

Speak the Lingo using Load Testing Terms

Load testing is a niche skill within the large trade of quality assurance. With any trade, being able to communicate effectively the nuances and concepts used is essential. In this brief post, we will go over several definitions that will allow you to speak the lingo using load testing terms. Below we have divided these into categories for better organization: General load testing terms Load generator server – Each load test is run on one orRead More →

JMeter Custom Thread Groups

With any JMeter test, thread groups constitute the basic container for test plan requests and other elements. The simplicity of the basic thread group is such that with enough ingenuity anything is possible. Through clever use of scripting, timing, and logic elements it is possible to simulate any user behavior. However, for simulating complex traffic patterns there is an easier way. One of the most useful plugins for JMeter comes as the “Custom Thread Groups” collection.Read More →

JMeter Videos

New JMeter video playlist is available on the RedLine13 YouTube channel. Check out the new JMeter videos. There’s a new one on CSV file parameterization. It walks through how to make unique requests from a JMeter test plan using a CSV data source file. And another one on Advanced JMeter & Cloud Test Options. There are older ones that you also may like, such as Testing Mobile Applications at Scale with Apache JMeter. You can subscribeRead More →

comparing k6, gatling and jmeter

K6 was released on GitHub not long ago in 2017 and since then has gained increasing popularity. Five years before then, in 2012, Gatling was released and also had very fast growth. You can see how active they have both become with the number of stack overflow questions and GitHub forks. There are some clear differences between the K6 and Gatling. K6 is JavaScript-based and Gatling is Scala-based. K6 is developer-centric and Gatling is not. ButRead More →

RedLine13 Customer Case Study

Background VAN IN is the largest educational company in Belgium. They develop innovative learning solutions for students and teachers from kindergarten through higher education. VAN IN is part of the European group Sanoma Learning, a division of Sanoma. The main platform in Primary Education, Bingel, guides pupils in their learning to reach their true potential, and gives the support teachers need to shine in front of the classroom. It is developed by teams in Belgium, PolandRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

RedLine13 supports Apache JMeter 5.5. We won’t repeat all that’s new in JMeter 5.5 since there are many sources for that. Here’s an informative one from QAInsights https://qainsights.com/whats-new-in-jmeter-5-5/. You can read more than 100 articles on JMeter in the RedLine13 blog. Try JMeter 5.5 for yourself and see what it has to offer. You can easily run your own RedLine13 test and check out JMeter 5.5.Read More →