Problem: How do I use my Selenium tests to run load tests? Answer: You can run a 5,000 user load test for $10 per hour with RedLine13.com. We distribute your Webdriver code to any number of AWS instances to scale to any size. We handle the distribution of the load agents running PhantomJS to emulate real user processes hitting your application/website at heavy load within minutes. YES, IT’S REAL The Past The previous answer had been “It’sRead More →

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Introduction When it comes to performance and load testing, it’s not uncommon that engineers/QA teams wait until the end of a product development lifecycle to start testing. Theoretically, this makes sense, as you can’t test an incomplete project, right? Well, maybe that’s not the case. As Agile software development has become a popular way many companies approach engineering, this fast-paced environment can put pressure on testers, especially when there are strict deadlines. So what if instead ofRead More →

In this video we will demonstrate how to run a simple URL test to gauge performance of a website. If you’re new to load testing, this is the easiest test to run on RedLine13. Getting Started When running a URL test on RedLine13, begin by logging into your account, hit “Start Test”, and then click the “Simple Test” tab. Next, begin to enter the parameters of your load test. In this example we will have 100 virtualRead More →

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RedLine13 offers users the ability to scale out custom python load tests in their own AWS environment. In this video, we demonstrate uploading and running a simple python test on RedLine13, showing how simple and cost-effective it is to run python load tests with RedLine13. Getting Started When running a custom python load test on RedLine13, we begin by logging into our account, hitting “Start Test”, and then navigating to the “Custom Test” tab. One will needRead More →

Updates for the Jenkins RedLine13 Load Testing Plugin include Support for Jenkins Proxy JMeter 3.1 Expanding Variables 2.1 Plugin Available on the API page Jenkins Proxy The RedLine13 Jenkins 2.1 plugin supports a proxy configured inside of Jenkins. To set up a proxy within the Jenkins admin UI, refer to the Jenkins Wiki: Jenkins & Proxy Servers To use the RedLine13 Plugin, simply upgrade the plugin to version 2.1. JMeter 3.1 Available In JMeter Freestyle We’ve addedRead More →

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We have added the ability for users to preview and print (or save as PDF) the results of their load tests, making it even easier to generate physical reports. Once a load test has completed running, view the results and then hit “Print View” in the summary: From there, you will then be redirected to the print view of the test, where you can control specifically what gets displayed/printed by selecting the appropriate check boxes: ControlRead More →

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Now that the first week of 2017 is officially over, let’s take a look back at some of 2016’s biggest load testing blunders. The story is familiar: a site experiences heavy load, they forgot to do performance testing, and then their site goes down. Here are a few examples to show you exactly why you should load test as we look at the biggest load testing blunders of 2016. 8. The Hamilton Ticket Lottery The popular BroadwayRead More →

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Intro We can gain a lot of insight into how applications or websites perform thanks to load testing. If you’re serious about testing, running tests inside your local environment will only take you so far. Eventually you will need some kind of solution that allows you to scale. This is where cloud load testing comes into play. Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running & maintaining the hardware neededRead More →

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Load Agent Location Manager With our update, you can now control exactly which load agent locations you want to see and use. For example, if you only test on Virginian servers, it’d be best to only activate that load agent location, thus increasing your page’s reload time. You can also control the default subnet and security groups for all load agents: If you want to get started with the load agent location manager, begin by loggingRead More →

On December 13th, Amazon added new European servers located in London that will be offered to their AWS users, further expanding their infrastructure. RedLine13 has now added support for these new servers in London (eu-west-2), meaning you can now cloud load test in 14 different AWS server locations throughout the world. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: London (eu-west-2) Canada (ca-central-1) Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt,Read More →