JMeter 3.0 is a major update from the community and one that is years in the making. For any open source project to pull off a release of this size is no easy accomplishment. Contributions from 26 individuals are mentioned and we are sure many good discussions in the forum drove ideas and collaboration. With this release, JMeter continues to solidify itself as the leader in performance testing; a workhorse that has been providing value for moreRead More →

SOASTA is a leading name within the testing industry, offering a great range of testing solutions. Not only do they have load testing solutions, they also offer real user monitoring services, continuous mobile app testing, expert support, and much more. SOASTA offers feature-rich tools and solutions that are ideal for large businesses, however the biggest downside with SOASTA is cost: their plans are expensive. So what if there was a way that you could access what SOASTARead More →

What’s New With RedLine13? Things are moving fast with RedLine13 as we continually strive to offer our users an affordable, practical, and useful load testing platform which we are constantly improving upon. In this past month we have: Updated our Selenium-IDE Firefox Plugin Communicated with some of our power users to begin developing a series of case studies examining how companies incorporate and draw value from load testing.  Let us know your story! Examined how cloud load testingRead More →

The Selenium+JMeter plugin was built for QA teams to support functional and performance testing from the same test plan. Our plugin captures Selenium test playback which can then be downloaded as a standard JMeter .jmx file. This can be uploaded back into JMeter or run via a cloud test using RedLine13 or other cloud load testing providers. To help you get started, we will take a brief look at how to setup and use our FirefoxRead More →

As we have previously examined, the cloud has opened up many new doors within the world of performance testing. We are now seeing a new use case for cloud performance testing emerge, not simply a means to validate scale, but as a service to validate deployment options based on size, scale, and cost: load testing for capacity planning. This trend is a sign that the power of pricing/performance has shifted from operations teams to development andRead More →

For many first-time testers or even experienced QA managers, load testing can be a daunting task. But it certainly doesn’t have to be, especially when there’s a passionate and active community of testers out there providing others with a host of resources. Jason Lotito, the DevOps lead architect for MeetMe, gave a few presentations awhile back on cloud load testing. He even goes over a few sample tests and shows you how it’s done. We wanted to passRead More →

What’s New With RedLine13? We’ve been very busy since the last time we’ve reached out to our subscribers. In the time that has passed we have: Added new test tracking features Updated region support for Amazon Web Services Added the ability to create tests based on Apache & NGINX WebServer log files Grown to over 2,000 active users  Have a combined total of over 27,000 tests ran with RedLine13. Brought on new staff members RedLine13 By TheRead More →

Load testing may seem like a tiresome, difficult, and expensive task, however that is actually far from the truth. Here at RedLine13 we’re all about “almost” free load testing, and even when you do have to pay for testing, the cost is exponentially less compared to other services out there. Additionally, load testing isn’t necessarily as complicated or involved as you might think, as our users and others have been saying. Martin Larsen, the Senior DeveloperRead More →

Forward Being able to recognize and understand major industry shifts and trends is something we value highly here at RedLine13. It allows us to continue to not only improve upon ourselves, but to also keep our readers and users informed and up-to-date with what’s going on in the world of load/performance testing. This is why we have introduced a new blog “mini-series”, if you will, which will focus entirely on important industry trends. For the first entryRead More →

Example to write custom load tests for testing WebSockets. Files Required Custom Test Class : https://github.com/redline13/custom-loadtests/blob/master/WebSocketLoadTest.php composer.json to include dependencies : https://github.com/redline13/custom-loadtests/blob/master/composer.json WebSockets Client package https://github.com/Textalk/websocket-php from Fredrik Liljegren @ TextTalk Running Test Select CustomTest Add Custom Test Class Add composer.json with dependencies Enable the composer plugin for Custom tests Select Your # Users and Cloud Options Run your Test Example Test https://www.redline13.com/share/testplan/26555      Read More →