Load Testing in India

  RedLine13 is committed to supporting users in India and is ideally suited for the load testing and performance testing community in India. We will talk about why RedLine13 is the best solution for load testing in India. Cost Effective Solution RedLine13 was built to be cost effective from the beginning with a unique architecture and pricing model. With RedLine13, you only pay for the resources that you use. Read more. Free Version RedLine13 has aRead More →

Extracting Metadata from Load Generator Instances

RedLine13 load generator instances are backed by AWS EC2 instances. AWS exposes a special locally-addressable endpoint that returns metadata about that instance. Using this, you can ascertain such things as the region in which your instance resides, private and public addresses, and instance tags amongst other useful data points. A specific example of where this would be useful is where you have defined a load test to run in multiple regions, with a number of EC2-backedRead 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 →

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 →