Load Testing

Load Testing Online with RedLine13

Knowing your website capacity is essential for your online business. You can do your load testing online with RedLine13. Deliver high performance websites, apps and APIs faster. RedLine13 is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools. Run tests with 5,000,000 interactions and 500,000 users and more with unlimited scaling in the cloud. Test all of your apps, from web and mobile apps to microservicesRead More →

Basic Users get new High Limits and Premium Users get Unlimited Load Testing Every AWS server has a virtual CPU count. For example, an m5.xlarge instance type has four virtual CPUs in total. See AWS EC2 for details.  We are putting in new high limits related to the value of the services we provide from free subscriptions to unlimited load testing for premium users: Free RedLine13 subscriptions will have a limit of 10 vCPUs per test.Read More →

Load Testing in a Continuous Integration Environment

In this blog post, we will talk about Load Testing in a Continuous Integration Environment and how to effectively integrate with cloud systems using RedLine13. The crucial point of the this blog post is that we are preparing our load test script just using Selenium code. Before we begin our example, let’s briefly talk about the technologies used in Continuous Integration (CI) processes in our post. Jenkins is an open source automation server and an integrationRead More →

What is Free Load Testing? example with JMeter

We created RedLine13 and call it (Almost) Free Load Testing. So, what is Free Load Testing? Other load testing companies talk about their free load testing. But it’s just a free evaluation. Read more here. Let’s get back to (Almost) Free Load Testing and why we call it that. Two Cost Components of RedLine13 There are two cost components of RedLine13 load testing: RedLine13 and AWS. RedLine13 can be used for free. And when we sayRead More →

Free Trial is not Free - RedLine13 is Free Load Testing

When doing a Free Load Testing Comparison, ‘Free’ seems to mean very different things! Let’s be honest. Free load testing is not the same as a 30 day free trial. What good is that? You’re going to be paying on day 31, day 32 and on and on. And those ‘free trials’ have limitations on ‘free load testing’. The whole reason that RedLine13 got into the load testing business was because we had seen how expensiveRead More →

Recording signifying File Upload with JMeter

This article demonstrates how to do a file upload with JMeter. This will show the steps when you have a load testing scenario where file upload is required. Recording File Upload with JMeter The simplest way of creating a JMeter test plan is recording the corresponding request using the HTTP(s) Test Script Recorder. JMeter acts as a proxy server, capturing all traffic between a web browser and the application under test (AUT), and converting it intoRead More →

Overview – Data Driven Testing Data Driven Testing (DDT) is a popular testing approach, especially for functional testing. The same business requirement or use case can get different reactions when using different data. One of the most popular uses is entering forms. The basic aim of this approach is to design one test case and implement it with different data sets. To use data-driven testing in this scenario, you can record a single automated test, andRead More →

AWS EC2 Instance Types

Which AWS EC2 Instance Type Will Work Best for your Load Test? Before performing a load test, you need to determine the right AWS EC2 instance type. Instance types comprise various combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity and give you the flexibility to choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications. In this blog post we will see how load testing with different AWS EC2 instance types can impact your load testing results, sometimesRead More →

In order to keep up our responsive support, the RedLine13 Basic Subscription Load Testing pricing will increase from $50 to $75 per month on August 15. The annual price for the Basic Subscription will stay at $500 per year. And other RedLine13 prices will stay the same. If you are currently have a Basic Subscription, your price will NOT change. If you are currently considering a Basic Subscription, you can sign up before August 15 toRead More →

JMeter Throughput Shaping Timer Results on RedLine13

Imagine you have a task to test the throughput of a system at a specified Requests Per Second (RPS) rate. To achieve the desired rate using regular thread groups you would need to play around with the number of threads and timers. This is not an efficient way to generate load. You can simply use JMeter’s Throughput Shaping Timer Plugin. The Throughput Shaping Timer plugin allows you to load test the RPS more effectively. It is designedRead More →