BlazeMeter has become a real leader in making a professional version of Apache JMeter. We have heard through the grapevine that Blazemeter is trying to raise another $10M in addition to the original Series A of $6.5M and $1.2M of Seed funding. We wish them well because commercial backing can really help advance open source projects with additional development, and especially better PR, Marketing and Selling efforts. We have a track record of being a part ofRead More →

The BlazeMeter Chrome Extension is a very good Apache JMeter test plan recorder directly in the browser.  It is a great improvement over the default JMeter recorder, which is a bit old-school and acts as a proxy on your system. Though BlazeMeter has not open sourced or contributed this back to the community, they do allow you to export valid JMeter test plans. We appreciate this free-to-use recorder and can quickly demonstrate recording and playing back at scale on RedLine13.Read More →

We have added support for controlling custom properties being passed into Gatling or JMeter test plans. This is available for JMeter and Gatling tests and in the advanced settings sections. Gatling Command Line JMeter Command LineRead More →

RedLine13 Just Got Real RedLine13 started from a need to support 50,000 users registering in minutes.   The load testing market has been full of large, expensive, closed, and locked-down providers.   There was no way for RunSignUp to scale without a large investment for initially a point in time need.  Stephen Sigwart and Bob Bickel decided they needed to build something quick for their business.  Afterwards, they realized they had something special – easy, inexpensive, and rapid load testing.  Read More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing Perhaps in a perfect world, every time code is submitted and reviewed, a Jenkins job kicks off a load test against your specific change.  However, in reality, this has quite a few issues: Too early.  Load testing too early in your process is noise Time.  Realistically, most projects are not scoped with time for this Scope.  Changing a readme file should not generate a load test For me, I have foundRead More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing Everything else was build up to the review of this slide. What is available in  open source load testing tools?  There are so many ways to slice and dice all the great open source projects and this slide is not a deep review or demo of each project.  I looked at the dimensions of the projects in terms of content covered in this presentation. Distributed.  Does it support scaling loadRead More →

This is supported for JMeter and Gatling Multiple  file attached to load test Add up to 10 Extra Files to be included with your JMeter or Gatling tests Split Any text file can be split across multiple servers.   A 10,000 line csv file called users.csv run with 10 servers will be split evenly across 10 servers and still be called users.csv! Expand Have a group of files to keep with your load test, package them with tar or zip andRead More →

We are working on improving the site around (Almost) Free Load Testing.  With each iteration, we hope to provide improved knowledge and ease-of-use.   Here are some updates we deployed. Trail Maps We started, but have more to go, on building Trail Maps for getting started with all the load test types Simple Trail Map for URL Testing JMeter Trail Map, so much we could add for JMeter Gatling Trail Map Custom Trail Map for PHPRead More →

A recap of premium version features and pointers to the documentation Clone Test A one click mechanism to re-run a previous test or save it for Jenkins.   We found this a useful feature when you are running test after test or just coming back the next day and want a quick way to start the same test. You can press clone and then make some adjustments to the size of the test. https://www.redline13.com/blog/pro-feature-replay-test/ Team Management TeamRead More →