Blue Frontier

Blue Frontier is now a RedLine13 Partner. Blue Frontier is a full-service digital agency that specialise in software testing, web design, development & mobile apps, through to marketing, IT, security and software. Their ISTQB qualified test team offer a wealth of services including performance, functional, compatibility, accessibility & automated testing. Here is a Case Study Blue Frontier wrote: Would a User’s Site Handle 50,000 New Users? It includes a walkthrough of the requirements, challenges and plans to answer the question.Read More →

PrimeQA Solutions is now a RedLine13 Partner. PrimeQA Solutions is an independent software testing agency located in India, serving global clients. Their testing services include load performance, automation testing, functional, mobile app, security, and next-gen testing. PrimeQA Solutions has an article Scaling 1 millions users Redline13 which details the problems and challenges they faced and their solution. Read more about PrimeQA Solutions here.Read More →

RedLine13 Security Updates

We have made RedLine13 security updates that address a JMeter security vulnerability and we’ve added MFA for RedLine13 login. These changes are available for Enterprise users. JMeter Vulnerability JMeter has an active security vulnerability #5766 that will be fixed in JMeter 5.5.1. But that release is not available yet so RedLine13 has fixed this vulnerability until JMeter 5.5.1 is available. This has a severity of critical and exploiting this vulnerability could potentially allow for remote codeRead More →

Load testing users in India

RedLine13 is committed to supporting users in India and is ideally suited for the load testing and performance testing community in India. In a previous post we talked about why: cost effective solution free version JMeter support support for all AWS Regions including the new Hyderabad region support team in India RedLine13 Load Testing Users in India RedLine13 users in India include companies based in India, such as Tata Elxisi, Viacom18, Philips India and Thomson Digital.Read More →

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 →

Load Tests from Hyderabad

AWS announced that they have created new AWS Regions in Hyderabad, Jakarta and Melbourne. So RedLine13 is announcing that you can now run RedLine13 load tests in Hyderabad, Jakarta and Melbourne. See the RedLine13 Release Notes. These regions join other AWS Regions in Asia, including Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Seoul. Read more about AWS in Hyderabad: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-the-30th-aws-region-asia-pacific-hyderabad-region-in-india/. Configure AWS and RedLine13 Enable the regions in AWS for which regions your account can use https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-regions.html. In RedLine13 goRead 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 →

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 →

k6 limitations

K6 is a popular load testing tool but it does have limitations at each of the different subscription levels. Let’s take a look at some of the K6 limitations that are in place and what it will cost if you need higher limits. For the $99/month subscription, you can load test 100 virtual users. That’s not that much. And the test can only run 15 minutes. That’s not much of a load test. And they’ll saveRead 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 →