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 →
RedLine13 is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools. Pricing and features for RedLine13 is simple and straightforward. As our tagline implies, we’re all about (almost) free load testing. Here at RedLine13 we provide a central service that allows our users the ability to freely create an account, setup connections to your AWS account, configure and run load tests, view realRead 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 →
