Speak the Lingo using Load Testing Terms

Load testing is a niche skill within the large trade of quality assurance. With any trade, being able to communicate effectively the nuances and concepts used is essential. In this brief post, we will go over several definitions that will allow you to speak the lingo using load testing terms. Below we have divided these into categories for better organization: General load testing terms Load generator server – Each load test is run on one orRead More →

Configure JMeter Thread Counts

A very common practice in JMeter is to make the number of threads per server configurable by passing in as a parameter to your thread group. We recently received a question from RedLine13 customer University of California about this. Sundar Thiru, Manager of Performance and Automation Testing, asked how to configure JMeter thread counts per test in RedLine13. You simply launch this in RedLine13 and use Advanced JMeter Options to pass in your settings at runtime.Read More →

People often get confused in the usage of JMeter Loop Count and JMeter Thread Count and more importantly, how will it impact their load test. Do you know the answers? Here are two scenarios: Scenario 1: If the number of thread count is 10, ramp-up time is 10 and loop count is 1. Scenario 2: If the number of thread count is 1, ramp-up time is 1 and loop count is 10. What is the differenceRead More →