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 →

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 →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing True story, but leaving out a few company specific details.  One of my first entries into managing larger teams was a project which had 40-50 developers and the middleware needed to support thousands of transactions per second.  The system was built with the work of a great team and the expertise of one amazing project manager, but we needed to start load testing. Realize this was circa 2004, so pre-cloud.Read More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing   If you have been through the process of build and running load tests, I am sure you have gone through all the emotions that come with it. From the fun of taking down your site or API, to the agony of not knowing where the bottleneck is, and eventually the eureka moment when you resolve the issue and run your next load test.  Here are some of my emotions.Read More →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing Having run and worked with many teams on load testing, a pattern in the process of load testing emerges.  It is not complex, and if done right the act of load testing becomes transparent to the process of resolving performance issues. Define Requirements. As discussed in common sense of load testing, having requirements simplifies the complexity and allows you to stop load testing at a reasonable project point. Record or Create.Read More →

When we first launched with Gatling the community had released 2.0.2 and only a few months later they are at 2.1.4. This community is going fast and furious building better releases. We encourage folks to move to the newest version, but if you are still on 2.0.2 we added multiple version support for Gatling. We will try to keep up with the community as they keep improving the project. Selecting your version for Gatling by using the versionRead More →