Continuous Load Testing

How many businesses or organizations actually do continuous load testing? There are typically two purposes for load tests: event-based and continuous load tests. The first is the one we normally think of: load tests that are run due to some external event. It could be a new marketing campaign that is going to drive additional volume. It could be a new version of software and wanting to make sure that it will handle the volume. OrRead More →

Test Types with Jenkins and RedLine13

This post will specifically address team support of the Jenkins-RedLine13 integration. This integration with Jenkins means that you can build, deploy and load test your project continuously with Jenkins individually or as part of a team.  We call this Automated Testing with Jenkins – Team Support. We’ll then talk about how a RedLine13 customer is doing this today. Setting up your Jenkins-Redline13 Integration If you haven’t set up your Jenkins-Redline13 integration, here are the instructions toRead More →

Codeship provides Basic and Pro. For Codeship Basic integration, read Load Testing on Codeship with Redline13 – it just makes sense. With Basic you can run any command. Pro is a fully customizable Continuous Integration Platform with native Docker support. To integrate with Codeship Pro we have used Encrypted environment variables Service definition in codeship-services.yml Build steps defined in codeship-steps.yml 1 – Make your RedLine13 API Key available as an encrypted environment variable Get your RedLine13Read More →

shift-left-testing_redline13_load_test

Introduction When it comes to performance and load testing, it’s not uncommon that engineers/QA teams wait until the end of a product development lifecycle to start testing. Theoretically, this makes sense, as you can’t test an incomplete project, right? Well, maybe that’s not the case. As Agile software development has become a popular way many companies approach engineering, this fast-paced environment can put pressure on testers, especially when there are strict deadlines. So what if instead ofRead More →

We have released version 2.0(beta) of our Jenkins RedLine13 plugin including support for Jenkins Pipelines.  The following is available in Pipeline or FreeStyle project form. redlineJMeter – Launch JMeter tests redlineGatling – Launch Gatling tests redlineCustom – Launch Custom tests in PHP, NodeJS, and Python redlineScenario – Launches tests marked Jenkins Templates on RedLine13. All types include support for Thresholds marking a build as unstable or failed based on criteria, Success Ratio – Percentage of tests/virtual users passed ResponseRead 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 →