RedLine13 Basic vs Premium

What are the similarities and differences between a RedLine13 Basic vs Premium subscription? Similarities and Differences There are some key similarities with Basic and Premium. Both subscriptions have no limits on the number of tests you run. They have no limits on the duration of your tests. Both have real-time graphs, Jenkins integration and API access. But there are some differences between RedLine13 Basic vs Premium. Team Support A Basic subscription is for a single user.Read More →

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 →

Speak the Lingo using Load Testing Terms

Load testing is a niche skill within the large trade of quality assurance. With any trade, being able to communicate effectively the nuances and concepts used is essential. In this brief post, we will go over several definitions that will allow you to speak the lingo using load testing terms. Below we have divided these into categories for better organization: General load testing terms Load generator server – Each load test is run on one orRead More →

How to Run a Multi-Region Test

RedLine13 integrates with AWS to handle the spin up, management, and termination of your load generator servers without you ever having to worry about any of those details.  We also support starting load generators from any AWS region.  This is useful for when you want to simulate traffic which originates from geographically diverse sources.  In this brief post, we will show you how to run a multi-region test to achieve this. When you start a newRead More →

JMeter Custom Thread Groups

With any JMeter test, thread groups constitute the basic container for test plan requests and other elements. The simplicity of the basic thread group is such that with enough ingenuity anything is possible. Through clever use of scripting, timing, and logic elements it is possible to simulate any user behavior. However, for simulating complex traffic patterns there is an easier way. One of the most useful plugins for JMeter comes as the “Custom Thread Groups” collection.Read 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 →