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Alexander Podelko, who talks and writes about performance-related topics, recently wrote in his latest load testing report that “It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool.” In this report he looked at the state of the load testing space since his previous report five years earlier. And he found that load testers use JMeter the most. Alexander continued: “Another interesting trend is that JMeter scripts become a de facto standard.” So weRead More →

API Load Testing with cURL

I am a committer and member of the JMeter Project Management Committee at Apache. I work at SeLoger, the biggest French Real Estate platform. Performance matters at SeLoger and load testing is one of the ways we use to achieve good performance. In this post, I will talk about API Load Testing with cURL and RedLine13. SeLoger faces many challenges when performing load tests: Many websites Many sprint durations Small performance team But fortunately to achieveRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Be the first to load test with JMeter 5.2. Check out what’s new in Apache JMeter 5.2. That means you can now load test with all of the JMeter 5.2 capabilities. JMeter Nightly Have you seen that Apache JMeter also supports Nightly builds for developers? RedLine13 support Nightly, meaning one could be adventurous. Gatling, Chrome and Firefox RedLine13 also supports the new versions of Gatling, Chrome and Firefox. Gatling now supports Latest build – giving us GatlingRead More →

HTTP Cookie Manager

This is one of our most popular blog posts. We’ve added new information on the property save.cookies at the bottom of the post. This post answers a common JMeter question: I would like to understand and see an example to use HTTP Cookie Manager and explain the different reasons I might use it. Cookie Characteristics In a stateless internet, many sites and applications use cookies to retain a handle between sessions or to keep some stateRead More →

Million Concurrent User Load Testing

Load testing with a high concurrent user count can be challenging in many ways. This post will tell you about how one team did it with one million concurrent user load testing and the challenges they faced. Requirements Thinklogic, a Los Angeles based consulting firm specializing in web development and custom business software solutions, was tasked with quickly building and testing a highly scalable web-based application. The high level application functionality consisted of: User account creationRead More →

This is one of our most popular blog posts – File Uploads. Check out a new section #3: Adding Parameters to your HTTP Request. Read below for lots of great information. There are many cases of testing performance of API Endpoints for file uploads. We chose to demonstrate scaling out such a test building our load test plan in JMeter. JMeter supports file uploads natively within the HTTP Request, and Redline13 supports attaching files to your test plan.Read More →

Alex Podelko wrote about the state of load testing in 2014. He recently did a load testing comparison to see what changed since then. And he realizes that the winds of change have changed it a lot. It’s titled “Are Times still Good for Load Testing?” and is an excellent read. Alex currently serves as a board director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), a worldwide organization of performance and capacity management professionals. Read his full bio. It’s crazy (butRead More →

If you’ve never run a load test, here’s where to figure out how to run your first load test. Simple URL – This post and video will demonstrate how to run a simple URL test to gauge performance of a website. If you’re new to load testing, this is the easiest test to run on RedLine13. JMeter – Apache JMeter is one of the most popular tools for load testing and scaling out your JMeter testRead More →

The authors are members of Apache JMeter’s team and experts in the performance field. Hear their insights in using JMeter more effectively in this JMeter Ebook Live Stream. About this Event Philippe Mouawad and Antonio Gomes Rodrigues are the authors of the new Ebook Master JMeter. The conversation will cover: History and background of JMeter Advice for load testers Future and cloud Register now to save your spot, get the opportunity to submit questions for Philippe andRead More →

Our JMeter Ebook giveaway for new RedLine13 customers has been extremely popular. So we decided to expand it and offer a free JMeter Ebook for customers upgrading to annual subscription from their existing monthly subscription. This is a way to support JMeter open source contributors and authors of their new book. If you’re not a RedLine13 customer now, you can see what you’re missing and run your own test on RedLine13. Read More →