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 are 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 →

LoadTestWorld 2021 Recordings

LoadTestWorld was begun as an opportunity for members of the load testing community to meet and share! And we held the first conference. Now the LoadTestWorld 2021 recordings are available. We are happy with the reaction to starting and hosting LoadTestWorld. We are already working on the next LoadTestWorld for 2022. Follow LoadTestWorld on Twitter for the latest info. LoadTestWorld 2021 Recordings All speaker presentations from LoadTestWorld are now available on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. The talks covered a rangeRead More →

LoadTestWorld 2021

LoadTestWorld 2021 is October 6. It is an opportunity for members of the load testing community to meet virtually and share! Register now. LoadTestWorld 2021 is free and 100% virtual. Highlights include author Leandro Melendez, also known as Señor Performo, speaking about his new book The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects: A Fun, Step-by-Step Walk-Through Guide. Learn what Merck, ACT and Acquia are doing with load testing. Hear from a Performance Testing Consultant who hasRead More →

Troubleshoot your JMeter load tests

An important part of developing a performance test involves debugging of the test itself. Simply put, we must “test our test” to confirm that the results it generates are reliable. In this article we will walk you through how to troubleshoot your JMeter load tests. We will include some specific ways that RedLine13 makes this process easier for cloud-based load testing. Local Debugging As the test plan is built up, we will invariably run in locallyRead More →

peak performance testing

Sometimes we test a system with a specific goal of measuring sustained performance capability. For that we want to measure true peak performance testing by removing outliers at the beginning or end of our tests that may otherwise influence performance characteristics. In this post we will describe how to accomplish this using a basic JMeter post-processor script. Suppose for a moment I were a cyclist, and I was attempting to calculate my average biking speed. ForRead More →

popular load test type

JMeter continues to increase its lead as the most popular load test type on RedLine13. But it wasn’t always like that. RedLine13 supports different load test types: Simple URL JMeter Gatling Custom Tests in PHP, NodeJS, Python Simple URL Tests In the beginning of RedLine13 in 2013, the majority of tests were simple URL tests. As the name says, they are simple to do and they can quickly provide valuable information. Here’s how to run aRead More →