BlazeMeter Comparison

BlazeMeter is one of the leading load testing platforms. RedLine13 has claimed that it provides (Almost) Free Load Testing. This post will first take a look at a BlazeMeter pricing comparison vs. RedLine13. Then it will take a look at a feature comparison because price isn’t everything. In addition, there is the increasing realization by businesses with the value of shift left testing. So this blog post will also look at pricing related to continuous integrationRead More →

Codeship – A Continuous Integration Platform in the cloud that fits your needs. Codeship + Redline13 – makes load testing easy and (almost) free. Codeship provides Basic and Pro. For Codeship Pro integration, read Codeship Pro Integration When looking at the easy and quick nature of building software with Codeship it just made sense to put together a Codeship integration.  Redline13 already has the API and examples to do this. With this Codeship integration, you have the toolsRead More →

How to use BeanShell Sampler to Load Test with Unique Users This guest post is courtesy of Mustafa Mahir Kaplancı of Etiya. A potential problem with automated load testing is when the system requires unique users to log in. Let’s imagine you would like to run a 5k virtual user test. And you’ve determined that you should use 10 AWS instance. In addition to the JMeter script you will also need to have one CSV file whichRead More →

RedLine13’s (almost) Free Load Testing provides a leading cloud based load testing platform for users to understand how their site performs in stressful environments. Our nearly free platform is instrumental in getting a better understanding of a sites needs and priorities. Understanding Necessity: If you’ve been following our recent social media ( twitter, FB, LinkedIn ) feeds, you’ll see some great examples of why it’s important to always test! Maintaining an online presence with a premier websiteRead More →

How to use RedLine13’s (almost) Free Load Testing with RUM methodology: Real User Monitoring (RUM) references a methodology that records every interaction of real users with a web site or web application. The capacity to monitor the way a website interacts in tests with real users is important to the development of online content so operators can see where the fault lines are and what remediation is necessary to make the software operate properly when it is really deployed.Read More →

One of the many ways RedLine13 helps our clients, is through continuously developing our services to meet the growing demands of developers and performance testers alike. In a thorough and informative case study published by evolross on the Meteor Forums, he explains his journey while running a Meteor 1.5.1 production app deployed on Galaxy, wherein he receives hundreds, sometimes thousands, of simultaneous bursts of users hitting the app. For a full read of the thread on theRead More →

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 →

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 →