Our summer intern, Eric Kinner, submitted this blog post. With my RedLine13 internship coming to a close, now is the time to reflect on my experience here. Going into this internship, I only had the knowledge that my college classes had afforded me. I had experience coding in Java from my courses, some HTML and CSS knowledge from my own personal projects, and a little bit of exposure to PHP through my database class. Simply put,Read More →
Many companies are struggling with the need for comprehensive load testing, the cost of load testing and limited budgets. This post will tell you about something you may not have considered: Load Testing with AWS Spot vs On-Demand Instances. To begin with, RedLine13 understands the high cost of load testing. If you don’t know the RedLine13 story, that’s what led us to create RedLine13 for our own testing. There are many different types of load testingRead More →
AWS announced that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is now open. RedLine13 announces that you can use RedLine13 in the Stockholm AWS Region for Load Testing. The Stockholm Region joins Frankfurt, Ireland, London and Paris as the fifth AWS Region in Europe, and the 20th AWS Region worldwide. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, the AWS Global Infrastructure now offers 60 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in overRead More →
Alex Podelko wrote about the state of load testing in 2014. He recently did a load testing comparison to see what changed since then. And he realizes that the winds of change have changed it a lot. It’s titled “Are Times still Good for Load Testing?” and is an excellent read. Alex currently serves as a board director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), a worldwide organization of performance and capacity management professionals. Read his full bio. It’s crazy (butRead More →
AWS announced that the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is now open. RedLine13 announces that you can use RedLine13 in the Hong Kong AWS Region for Load Testing. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and, Tokyo. With this launch, AWS now spans 64 Availability Zones within 21 geographic regions around the world. RedLine13 has added support forRead More →
Three new ways that life can be a little easier for JMeter Load Testers. We’ll start with the JMeter Dashboard Report. JMeter Dashboard Report You’ve been able to generate the Apache JMeter Dashboard report for a long time yourself or with RedLine13. But you had to download it, then expand, then view. Now you can View it inline! So you get the RedLine13 generated reports and you also get access to the full JMeter report as well.Read More →
RedLine13 users ask if is possible to add custom libraries with a JMeter test using RedLine13. For example, a user had a JMeter script using two JSON libraries to construct a JSON request. They wanted to upload the libraries and run the test with them. The answer is Yes. And it’s simple to do. How to Use Custom Libraries with a JMeter Test You can simply attach them as extra files as shown below. They willRead More →
You can get notification alerts into your Slack Channel from RedLine13. Slack is a collaboration hub, where people and information come together helping everyone get work done. This Slack integration with load testing results means you don’t have to wait for your RedLine13 results but will be notified in your Slack channel. Not only that, it’s easy to set up which you’ll see below. You can also be notified by email. This is part of RedLine13Read More →
Customers often ask: Which is the best AWS instance for load testing? It’s a great question. However it never has a direct answer:) As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, we’ve had a lot of experience with AWS. Here’s how we respond. 1 – First, it depends on what kind of testing framework you’re using, whether it’s JMeter, Gatling, Selenium or something else. For simple HTTP endpoint test or simple PHP/Python, start with T class. For otherRead More →
People often get confused in the usage of JMeter Loop Count and JMeter Thread Count and more importantly, how will it impact their load test. Do you know the answers? Here are two scenarios: Scenario 1: If the number of thread count is 10, ramp-up time is 10 and loop count is 1. Scenario 2: If the number of thread count is 1, ramp-up time is 1 and loop count is 10. What is the differenceRead More →
