Cloud Load Testing

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 →

Websites fail for many reasons. One of the most preventable is due to unexpected load. And it can happen to big sites and small. Now that we’ve almost made it safely to 2019, let’s take a look back at some possible load testing blunders of 2018. The story is familiar. A site does little or no load testing. The site experiences heavy load. The site goes down. Not surprisingly, some of the blunders this year involvedRead More →

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Intro We can gain a lot of insight into how applications or websites perform thanks to load testing. If you’re serious about testing, running tests inside your local environment will only take you so far. Eventually you will need some kind of solution that allows you to scale. This is where cloud load testing comes into play. Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running & maintaining the hardware neededRead More →

RedLine13 + Testing Diaries Webinar

We conducted our first-ever webinar on August 25th with Maharshi Shah from Testing Diaries, and we wanted to recap and share the recording of the webinar for our users in case anyone missed out. For the first webinar titled “Getting Started With Performance Testing”, we discuss a range of topics that are valuable to those that are just starting out with performance tests. Provided in this post is a recording of the webinar, and in itRead More →

iCIMS Case Study Introduction Here at RedLine13 we always look forward to hearing from our clients about how they specifically use our services. This not only provides other users with insights into how people incorporate and use RedLine13 into their workflow, but it also allows us to improve upon what we do as a company. In an effort to accomplish these goals, we have spoken with some of our clients that regularly use our service. We touchedRead More →

SOASTA is a leading name within the testing industry, offering a great range of testing solutions. Not only do they have load testing solutions, they also offer real user monitoring services, continuous mobile app testing, expert support, and much more. SOASTA offers feature-rich tools and solutions that are ideal for large businesses, however the biggest downside with SOASTA is cost: their plans are expensive. So what if there was a way that you could access what SOASTARead More →

What’s New With RedLine13? Things are moving fast with RedLine13 as we continually strive to offer our users an affordable, practical, and useful load testing platform which we are constantly improving upon. In this past month we have: Updated our Selenium-IDE Firefox Plugin Communicated with some of our power users to begin developing a series of case studies examining how companies incorporate and draw value from load testing.  Let us know your story! Examined how cloud load testingRead More →

As we have previously examined, the cloud has opened up many new doors within the world of performance testing. We are now seeing a new use case for cloud performance testing emerge, not simply a means to validate scale, but as a service to validate deployment options based on size, scale, and cost: load testing for capacity planning. This trend is a sign that the power of pricing/performance has shifted from operations teams to development andRead More →

For many first-time testers or even experienced QA managers, load testing can be a daunting task. But it certainly doesn’t have to be, especially when there’s a passionate and active community of testers out there providing others with a host of resources. Jason Lotito, the DevOps lead architect for MeetMe, gave a few presentations awhile back on cloud load testing. He even goes over a few sample tests and shows you how it’s done. We wanted to passRead More →

What’s New With RedLine13? We’ve been very busy since the last time we’ve reached out to our subscribers. In the time that has passed we have: Added new test tracking features Updated region support for Amazon Web Services Added the ability to create tests based on Apache & NGINX WebServer log files Grown to over 2,000 active users  Have a combined total of over 27,000 tests ran with RedLine13. Brought on new staff members RedLine13 By TheRead More →