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 →

Load testing may seem like a tiresome, difficult, and expensive task, however that is actually far from the truth. Here at RedLine13 we’re all about “almost” free load testing, and even when you do have to pay for testing, the cost is exponentially less compared to other services out there. Additionally, load testing isn’t necessarily as complicated or involved as you might think, as our users and others have been saying. Martin Larsen, the Senior DeveloperRead More →

Forward Being able to recognize and understand major industry shifts and trends is something we value highly here at RedLine13. It allows us to continue to not only improve upon ourselves, but to also keep our readers and users informed and up-to-date with what’s going on in the world of load/performance testing. This is why we have introduced a new blog “mini-series”, if you will, which will focus entirely on important industry trends. For the first entryRead More →

Log File Replay – just a list of URLs . If you have a list of URLs you can cloud load test them at scale. Prepare your list of URLs in a simple file.   One line per file / /Pricing /Services /Races?name=love&distance=&max_distance=&units=K&start_date=2016-04-07&end_date=&eventType=&country=US&state=&radius=5&zipcodeRadius= /NotAPage Start  A New Test and use “Log Replay Test” Setup your base URL Attach the file we created above Slect Log File Template – “Plain List” and your pattern will be %U TestRead More →

You can now create an (Almost) free load test based on an Apache or NGINX WebServer log files. Why? Customers asked for it! A customer asked us for the following: extract from say 5 minutes of traffic on the current web server logs the list of the urls which are called and then try to replicate the exact list of calls on our infrastructure and see what happens. Limitations We support GET requests only. POST data isRead More →

We have added support for Seoul Asia Pacific (Seoul), enabling all 10 AWS regions. Region Name Region US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 US West (N. California) us-west-1 US West (Oregon) us-west-2 EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2 South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1 Selected Advanced Cloud Options Drop down Location Select “Asia Pacific (Seoul)” Run your tests. Not all instances sizes andRead More →

New Feature Alert! We track User or Thread time starts Graphs can show cumulative results Both apply to free load test or subscription cloud load test User or Thread Starts Simple or Custom PHP load tests will show Users created Apache JMeter will show Threads started Cumulative Results In combination with User/Thread starts you can see sum of threads running and completed. Cumulative results can also be used with Individual Results KB Data from Responses Simple PHP testRead More →