SOASTA is a leading name within the testing industry, offering a great range of testing solutions. Not only do they have load testing solutions, they also offer real user monitoring services, continuous mobile app testing, expert support, and much more. SOASTA offers feature-rich tools and solutions that are ideal for large businesses, however the biggest downside with SOASTA is cost: their plans are expensive. So what if there was a way that you could access what SOASTARead More →

For many first-time testers or even experienced QA managers, load testing can be a daunting task. But it certainly doesn’t have to be, especially when there’s a passionate and active community of testers out there providing others with a host of resources. Jason Lotito, the DevOps lead architect for MeetMe, gave a few presentations awhile back on cloud load testing. He even goes over a few sample tests and shows you how it’s done. We wanted to passRead More →

Load testing may seem like a tiresome, difficult, and expensive task, however that is actually far from the truth. Here at RedLine13 we’re all about “almost” free load testing, and even when you do have to pay for testing, the cost is exponentially less compared to other services out there. Additionally, load testing isn’t necessarily as complicated or involved as you might think, as our users and others have been saying. Martin Larsen, the Senior DeveloperRead More →

What are WebSockets The WebSockets specification enables Web applications to maintain bidirectional communications with server-side processes, this specification introduces the WebSocket interface. In plain words: You can maintain a persistent connection between client and server which is available for data communication anytime while the connection is open.  Some resources and tutorials include WebSockets.org HTML5Rocks Introducing WebSockets Using JMeter to Create WebSocket Requests By default, JMeter does not provide a websocket sampler. However, the JMeter community is pretty powerful.   MaciejRead More →