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Alexander Podelko, who talks and writes about performance-related topics, recently wrote in his latest load testing report that “It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool.” In this report he looked at the state of the load testing space since his previous report five years earlier. And he found that load testers use JMeter the most. Alexander continued: “Another interesting trend is that JMeter scripts become a de facto standard.” So weRead More →

We often get messages asking how many vCPUs needed for load testing. For example: I want to do a load test with 500k users. I’m trying to decide how many vCPUs I would need for this, and therefore which plan to go for with Redline13. Please could you advise me on how many users you’d recommend per vCPU. For some background, AWS talks about Optimizing CPU Options. Most test usage for vCPUs is dependent on yourRead More →

Continuous Load Testing

How many businesses or organizations actually do continuous load testing? There are typically two purposes for load tests: event-based and continuous load tests. The first is the one we normally think of: load tests that are run due to some external event. It could be a new marketing campaign that is going to drive additional volume. It could be a new version of software and wanting to make sure that it will handle the volume. OrRead More →

API Load Testing with cURL

I am a committer and member of the JMeter Project Management Committee at Apache. I work at SeLoger, the biggest French Real Estate platform. Performance matters at SeLoger and load testing is one of the ways we use to achieve good performance. In this post, I will talk about API Load Testing with cURL and RedLine13. SeLoger faces many challenges when performing load tests: Many websites Many sprint durations Small performance team But fortunately to achieveRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Be the first to load test with JMeter 5.2. Check out what’s new in Apache JMeter 5.2. That means you can now load test with all of the JMeter 5.2 capabilities. JMeter Nightly Have you seen that Apache JMeter also supports Nightly builds for developers? RedLine13 support Nightly, meaning one could be adventurous. Gatling, Chrome and Firefox RedLine13 also supports the new versions of Gatling, Chrome and Firefox. Gatling now supports Latest build – giving us GatlingRead More →

HTTP Cookie Manager

This is one of our most popular blog posts. We’ve added new information on the property save.cookies at the bottom of the post. This post answers a common JMeter question: I would like to understand and see an example to use HTTP Cookie Manager and explain the different reasons I might use it. Cookie Characteristics In a stateless internet, many sites and applications use cookies to retain a handle between sessions or to keep some stateRead More →

Test Types with Jenkins and RedLine13

This post will specifically address team support of the Jenkins-RedLine13 integration. This integration with Jenkins means that you can build, deploy and load test your project continuously with Jenkins individually or as part of a team.  We call this Automated Testing with Jenkins – Team Support. We’ll then talk about how a RedLine13 customer is doing this today. Setting up your Jenkins-Redline13 Integration If you haven’t set up your Jenkins-Redline13 integration, here are the instructions toRead More →

Advanced Load Testing - Granularity

JMeter Reports default to a granularity of one minute. That granularity could be a problem. This post will talk about Advanced Load Testing – Granularity in your JMeter Reports. Did you know JMeter Reporting Dashboard allows you to control your granularity? See the Apache JMeter docs for all of the details. There are lots of adjustable settings, so why is granularity so important. Example: Advanced Load Testing – Granularity One of our RedLine13 customers shared aRead More →

Load Testing Troubleshooting

Anyone who has done load testing knows it’s a lot more than creating a script and running it. There are going to be times when it requires what we call ‘Advanced Load Testing Troubleshooting’. Here is a real case of a RedLine13 customer who was trying to figure out what was causing an unusual load testing graph result. The issue was the graph Percentiles per Page Response Time graph. But sometimes the problem we see isRead More →

Million Concurrent User Load Testing

Load testing with a high concurrent user count can be challenging in many ways. This post will tell you about how one team did it with one million concurrent user load testing and the challenges they faced. Requirements Thinklogic, a Los Angeles based consulting firm specializing in web development and custom business software solutions, was tasked with quickly building and testing a highly scalable web-based application. The high level application functionality consisted of: User account creationRead More →