@RedLine13 Be Prolific

We’ve been busy on many upgrades based on customer feedback. We’ve made improvements to our integrations with Jmeter and Gatling, done a number of upgrades based on new AWS like new EC2 sizes and regions and Aurora, and made some nice improvements on the UI and graphing.   Very excited to have also announced our partnership with UBIKLoadPack.

 

 

JMeter Updates

We are very excited for all the JMeter work this past month including our support for Selenium WebDriver and our recently announced partnership with UBIKLoadPack.

 

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• UBIKLoadPack Integration (Read about partnership)
  • JMeter + Flex Tutorial wtih UBIKLoadPack
  • JMeter + HLS Video Tutorial wtih UBIKLoadPack
  • JMeter + GWT Tutorial wtih UBIKLoadPack
• One click Plugin Support Architecture with support for
  • Standard
  • Extras
  • ExtrasWithLibs
  • WebDriver
  • Hadoop
  • UBIKLoadPack
• WebDriver Support – Run WebDriver tests via JMeter plugin
  • Web Driver support information
  • WebDriver Example Javascript with taking ScreenShot
  • WebDriver Example Java with taking ScreenShot
• Parameter passing update
  • Advanced Command Line Parameters
  • JVM_ARGS for JMeter
• Record with BlazeMeter Chrome Extension

Honorable Mentions

• We are cover in “Mastering JMeter” book by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues.  The book is in French and we are excited to have made it in.
• A review in QA Insights regarding RedLine13 – http://qainsights.com/redline13-almost-free-load-testing-tool/

AWS Related Updates

Werner’s six laws at AWS Re:Invent were great, we really liked Gall’s law as that is core to how we move forward.

• AWS Policy Validation – Making the AWS integration that much easier.
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• Improving use of security groups
• General Updates
  • Cross Account Roles
  • Under the covers
    • Agents use Enhanced Network
    • We updated to AWS Aurora and its fast.
    • Longer Instance IDs
  • Frankfurt Support
  • New EC2 Sizes
  • Configurable Disk Size (Pro feature)
• AWS Re:Invent Recap Notes
  • AWS re:Invent Werner Vogels Six Laws
  • AWS re:Invent Werner Vogels Keynote Recap

User Interface Updates

We upgrade to the latest version of Bootstrap and made quite a few UI improvements along the way

• Change Test Name
• Mark It Public (Pro)
• Details Section update
• Test Notes
• Updated Results Page

General Updates

Some interesting posts about insights we learned along the way.

Time To First Byte (TTFB) worsened by ~0.5s for the top 100 websites within 18 months. #webperf #perfmatters pic.twitter.com/rW41BFEm40

— Tobias Baldauf (@tbaldauf) October 18, 2015

• SSL Update
• Understanding Graphs
• Our agents now run on CentOS for better WebDriver Support
• The internet is slowing down, a review of HTTP Archive Data
  • General slow down for time to first by for many sites
  • HTTP Archive and Google Big Query

Gatling Updates

Not many updates on our Gatling support, but it was still nice to see @slandelle in NYC MeetUp

• Advanced Command Line Parameters