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 →

Scalability with REST APIs and JMeter

Background Aaron Mirsky of NICE Actimize recently discussed their performance testing evolution. Aaron is a Senior Software Architect at NICE Actimize which provides trading surveillance solutions that address such concerns as payment fraud and cybercrime for their customers worldwide. Summary NICE Actimize helps financial institutions keep a step ahead of financial crime in an environment where monetary transactions can be highly time-sensitive. This made the performance of NICE Actimize software very important. They went from usingRead 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 →

RedLine13 Customer Case Study

Background VAN IN is the largest educational company in Belgium. They develop innovative learning solutions for students and teachers from kindergarten through higher education. VAN IN is part of the European group Sanoma Learning, a division of Sanoma. The main platform in Primary Education, Bingel, guides pupils in their learning to reach their true potential, and gives the support teachers need to shine in front of the classroom. It is developed by teams in Belgium, PolandRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

RedLine13 supports Apache JMeter 5.5. We won’t repeat all that’s new in JMeter 5.5 since there are many sources for that. Here’s an informative one from QAInsights https://qainsights.com/whats-new-in-jmeter-5-5/. You can read more than 100 articles on JMeter in the RedLine13 blog. Try JMeter 5.5 for yourself and see what it has to offer. You can easily run your own RedLine13 test and check out JMeter 5.5.Read More →

People often ask what it will cost to run a large load test with RedLine13 on AWS, especially for large JMeter tests. We have lots of articles explaining how the AWS costs are determined. But some people have asked to see AWS costs for large JMeter load tests with real results from real customers. We think that listening to our customers is a good idea. So here they are. We’ve included test summaries from five differentRead More →

Performance test video streaming services

RedLine13 Technology Partner UBIK has published a case study using UbikLoadPack and RedLine13 to performance test video streaming services. Their client wanted to verify that his infrastructure could properly handle the delivery of a live sporting event with up to 150,000 watchers. The test needed to verify the following: Test Objectives Customers user experience (no lags, accuracy of stream, no delay) CDN and Origin delivery performance Bandwidth of the network Load balancing across 2 Data centersRead More →

Panel discussion on the future of load testing

The panel discussion on the future of load testing was comprised of: RedLine13 Co-Founder and Architect Rich Friedman Merck Automation Engineer Eldad Uzman SQALogic Founder David Milette The panelists discussed whether it will be easier or harder in the future, what has changed and what they think we may say in the future. What will look different in the future David talked about the trend towards performance engineering vs. performance testing. He talked about the increasedRead More →