IoT load testing

Eldad Uzman, Automation Architect at Merck, is the guest author on IoT load testing. You can read more from Eldad at Medium. Abstract In this article, I’ll discuss some of the challenges of load testing in the IoT world, and try to provide some practical solutions to these problems based on my personal experience. What is IoT? The internet-of-things refers to connecting physical devices such as sensors or computational devices to the internet. It is oftenRead 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 →

Troubleshooting Common Issues with Selenium Tests on RedLine13

Many RedLine13 customers have a need for full-browser testing. This is something we support with Selenium WebDriver. In this brief post we will cover common issues encountered with Selenium WebDriver tests and when scaling load testing on RedLine13. Test Never Completes Occasionally we encounter a Selenium WebDriver test that otherwise appears to run as expected, however never completes. One possible explanation is a simple one, where the driver.quit() statement is omitted. const main = () =>Read More →

Extracting Metadata from Load Generator Instances

RedLine13 load generator instances are backed by AWS EC2 instances. AWS exposes a special locally-addressable endpoint that returns metadata about that instance. Using this, you can ascertain such things as the region in which your instance resides, private and public addresses, and instance tags amongst other useful data points. A specific example of where this would be useful is where you have defined a load test to run in multiple regions, with a number of EC2-backedRead More →

Pitfalls of Selenium Load Testing

Tests created with Selenium WebDriver replicate the user experience from the perspective of the UI.  It can be thought of as a top-down approach whereby it accurately replicates the behavior of an end user. Running through a browser instance such as Chrome or Firefox, the test process itself interacts with the actual user interface elements of a target test application. This is in contrast to many other testing frameworks.  One of the most popular is JMeter,Read More →

Selenium Basics for Load Testing

We have several examples available to help you get started with Selenium WebDriver testing on RedLine13. In this brief post, we’ll go about constructing a Selenium script from scratch. We will also review the basic necessities and also common pitfalls when deploying on RedLine13. Selenium supports several languages for scripting, with JavaScript being a popular choice. The first line in our script should be instantiating the redline WebDriver instance: const redline = require(‘redline13-webdriver’); We will wantRead 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 →

Cost-effective cloud load testing

RedLine13 is a fully managed platform that integrates with seamlessly with AWS to provide cost-effective cloud load testing as a service. Being fully managed means that the configuration, startup, data collection, and termination is handled automatically with no coding or scripting required. This means you can scale to any level simply by specifying the quantity of servers you wish to run, to nearly limitless capacity with minimal effort. RedLine13 Cloud Architecture RedLine13 is a platform forRead More →

Load Testing with Locust and JMeter on RedLine13

Eldad Uzman, Automation Architect at Merck, is the guest author. You can read more from Eldad at Medium. Abstract In this article, I’ll present to you a case study of how you can integrate Locust into your Redline13 JMeter tests to get the maximum out of your testing environment, increase your load testing coverage while reducing the usage of infrastructure and thus reducing the costs. JMeter in a nutshell JMeter is a java-based load testing toolRead More →