Chris Baeckstrom

Evolution to Performance Engineering

David Milette of SQALogic kicked off LoadTestWorld with his talk on the evolution to performance engineering. David explains that this means that the way to develop and manage applications is evolving. This evolution to performance engineering is pushing organizations to think about quality testing in new ways to ensure it follows the evolution that is underway. DevOps does not signify that testing and quality is out of scope but rather that it is embedded in everyRead More →

GitHub Actions for JMeter

GitHub Actions are now an integral part of developers’ ecosystem to automate workflows. NaveenKumar Namachivayam spoke at LoadTestWorld about you can leverage GitHub Actions for JMeter test plans to run performance tests for developers’ events such as push, merge, new release etc. GitHub Actions help you to: automate workflows build, test and deploy your code right from GitHub implement your CI/CD workflow NaveenKumar shows you how to integrate your test plans into GitHub Actions for JMeterRead More →

Google and RedLine13

Here are the step by step instructions for a SAML Configuration with Google and RedLine13. Read more about SAML SSO and RedLine13. Login to your Google Admin account (Not for use with private google accounts) Under Apps, Select ‘Web and Mobile Apps’. Add App -> Add Custom SAML App Add initial app details For logo best to download and use https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/639264173994737664/cdMWrI39.jpg Continue to Set Up Page and download IDP MetaData. Click “Download Metadata” and save file, will needRead More →

Azure AD and RedLine13

Here are the step by step instructions for a SAML Configuration with Azure AD and RedLine13. Read more about SAML SSO and RedLine13. Go to Azure Portal -> Azure Active Directory -> Enterprise Applications. Create an Azure AD Enterprise Non Gallery Application. This operation will take a minute or two to complete  Under ActiveDirectory go to Enterprise Applications -> Select your newly Created App -> Single sign-on (side panel). Click (Enable) SAML Copy your “App Federation Metadata Url”Read More →

SAML and OKTA

Here are the step by step instructions for a SAML Configuration with OKTA and RedLine13. Read more about SAML SSO and RedLine13. Login to OKTA. Create a new app integration with SAML 2.0 Set General Settings – Logo can be downloaded from LOGO To Retrieve the Metadata document URL from OKTA you will need to create SAML integration with some temporary data. SingleSignOn URL –  anything – (https://www.redline13.com/SSO/YOUR_DOMAIN) Audience URL(SP Entity ID) – any string (will_change_after_setup)Read More →

Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo, spoke about his new book The Hitchhiking Guide to Load Testing Projects at LoadTestWorld. This book will give you some tips and steps as you move through the different levels. I wanted to explain Load Testing like a video game. Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo Leandro included best practices from his years of load testing to help you with the challenges of load testing: Planning Documentation Script & Run Leandro’s bookRead More →

Load Test Command Line Execution

Nik Gregory of Acquia spoke about “Driving Loads Tests from the Command Line” at LoadTestWorld 2021. Nik started by saying how he’s not a fan of GUI’s for repetitive tasks which led to the work he has done and the time he has saved. The video is available on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. The Use Case he had was weekly baselining of their system which had daily changes. That meant that they had a lot of data to downloadRead More →

Partner in Performance Testing

Pragmatic Test Labs is a RedLine13 Partner that does performance testing for client projects with Apache JMeter and RedLine13. You can read more about Pragmatic Test Labs and their expertise in performance testing, their experience scaling tests with large numbers of concurrent users, simulating load agents from multiple geographical locations and more. With their experience in JMeter, they were a natural fit with RedLine13. Contact them to learn how they can help you.Read More →

decentralized model for performance testing

“Load Test as Internal* Service” was the topic of Eldad Uzman’s talk at LoadTestWorld 2021 which was about collaborative efforts in load testing and using a decentralized model for performance testing. The video is available on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. He contrasts the centralized model vs. the decentralized model. In the centralized model, the performance engineer executes the test, analyzes the test and reports on the results. Eldad recommends the decentralized model and explains the collaborationRead More →

SAML SSO (Single sign-on) allows RedLine13 users to log in using SAML enabled identity providers such as Okta, AzureAD and Google. This means users don’t have to keep track of yet another email and password. More importantly, it grants admins the ability to add and revoke user access centrally using your existing identity management tool. Using SAML SSO also means that you have no limit to the number of users that can access RedLine13. You haveRead More →