People often ask what it will cost to run a large load test with RedLine13 on AWS, especially for large JMeter tests. We have lots of articles explaining how the AWS costs are determined. But some people have asked to see AWS costs for large JMeter load tests with real results from real customers. We think that listening to our customers is a good idea. So here they are. We’ve included test summaries from five differentRead More →

Estimating AWS Costs for Load Tests

Estimating your AWS costs for load tests is an essential fact of life provided you have any sort of budget.  If you’ve run any number of load tests with us before, you may have come to appreciate the “Data & Server Cost” box on your load test summary metrics. The green box does a reasonable job of approximating your projected AWS spend for your test, with a few caveats we will discuss.Read More →

Do-it-Yourself JMeter Testing

JMeter is one of the most popular load testing frameworks. However, to use JMeter at scale requires supporting infrastructure. In this post, we will be comparing and contrasting do-it-yourself JMeter testing versus managed JMeter load testing. With the rise of cloud computing architectures, it has become increasingly the standard to test using cloud-based resources. This means writing scripts to provision servers, coordinate load generators, and handle data collection.  Load testers using JMeter have two general options.Read 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 →

From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing Obligatory list of load failures Pope Visit Fail for Septa: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/07/20/septa-suspends-pope-pass-sales-technical-difficulties/ HealthCare.gov: too many links… here is a google search https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=HealthCare.gov+fail Your story – we have all had one. And as we start the tick up towards holiday season and soon to start the code freeze phase we are reminded work through our checklist.  In a good review post at gotgroove.com #1 on that list should be stress testing. For most, the priority ofRead More →

We got this from a new user: “We are doing a campaign with an creative firm and a TV program.  It is a real time campaign that will be live for 1 hour.  The TV company ran a load test using SOASTA.  The actual running of the tests was less than 2 hours.  I believe there were three tests following the format below. @2500 concurrent users 15 minutes to ramp up to 2500 continue for 15 testRead More →