Distribute your JMeter clients across different regions with RedLine13

This is a guest post from Eldad Uzman, Automation Architect at Merck on how to distribute JMeter clients across different regions. You can read more from Eldad at Medium. When running load tests, you want to make sure your testing setup is as close to production setup as possible.  One of the many things that would contribute to high validity of load tests is the ability to distribute the load across different regions.  Thanks to RedLine13Read More →

Capacity Reservations for Large Load Tests

Scalability is one of the greatest strengths of using a cloud-based architecture.  However, there are occasionally limitations to how quickly we can scale. This is especially true for high volume load testing.  In these scenarios, we need to instantaneously scale a practically nonexistent cloud architecture to our maximum desired size.  It is not always guaranteed that cloud providers like AWS will have these resources idle and waiting in the necessary quantities.  In this post we willRead More →

Deciding how many load agents you need

You have written your test plan and are ready to run your cloud-based load test with RedLine13, leveraging AWS resources to easily scale your load profile.  However, before you can launch your test, you’ll need to decide on how many EC2 load testing servers you will need.  In this brief guide, we will discuss the concepts and simple calculations to help you determine that number.Read More →

How to Upload Data Files Above the Limit

There are certain situations where you may need to include files above file size and count limits of your RedLine13 subscription. In this brief guide, we will walk you through how to upload data files above this limit by hosting extra files in AWS S3.Read More →

RedLine13 supports EC2 c5n

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of EC2 C5n instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. Redline13 supports EC2 C5n instances for load tests which require high network usage load tests.  Now when you’re selecting your AWS server you can choose a C5n instance. Even though AWS provides this extremely high network bandwidth, the cost is still low. RedLine13 gives you the power and control to choose a C5n instance. What otherRead More →

A JMeter Soak Test is a long running load test using JMeter. We’ll talk more below. But if you’re going to run a long test, there are costs that need to be understood. We’ll talk about that with an example from RedLine13 customer University of California. What is Soak Testing There is plenty of information out there. Software Testing Help says: “It is a type of performance testing to check if an Application Under Test (AUT)Read More →

JMeter has become the industry standard for load testing. If you don’t know, JMeter is an Apache project used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of various services, with a focus on web applications. This post will talk about some very different companies and their efforts to scale their JMeter tests. If you are running JMeter locally and need to simulate many concurrent users, there are limitations on the number ofRead More →

Steps to JMeter Scaling

We have been asked some questions on how JMeter scaling works. First a little background and then we’ll talk about how you can do it.  If you are running JMeter locally and you need to simulate a larger number of concurrent users, there are limitations on the number of concurrent users you can run. It depends on the CPU and memory of the machine. And running a large test on a single machine can quickly hitRead More →