Performance test video streaming services

RedLine13 Technology Partner UBIK has published a case study using UbikLoadPack and RedLine13 to performance test video streaming services. Their client wanted to verify that his infrastructure could properly handle the delivery of a live sporting event with up to 150,000 watchers. The test needed to verify the following: Test Objectives Customers user experience (no lags, accuracy of stream, no delay) CDN and Origin delivery performance Bandwidth of the network Load balancing across 2 Data centersRead More →

popular load test type

JMeter continues to increase its lead as the most popular load test type on RedLine13. But it wasn’t always like that. RedLine13 supports different load test types: Simple URL JMeter Gatling Custom Tests in PHP, NodeJS, Python Simple URL Tests In the beginning of RedLine13 in 2013, the majority of tests were simple URL tests. As the name says, they are simple to do and they can quickly provide valuable information. Here’s how to run aRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Apache JMeter is one of the most popular tools for load testing.  With RedLine13, scaling out your JMeter test plan on the cloud in is easy.  In this video and subsequent guide, we will walk you through running you first JMeter load test on RedLine13. Getting Started When running a JMeter test on RedLine13, we begin by logging into our account, hitting “Start Test“, and then navigating to the “JMeter” tab. Obviously we will need aRead More →

This is one of our most popular posts – JMeter Capturing Full Output. We’ve updated the post with new and updated content with the help of contributor Mustafa Mahir Kaplancı. See the updates at the end of the post. While running a distributed Apache JMeter test how can you capture the full output instead of just performance results? The following steps will show how to do what we call JMeter Capturing Full Output.. One is because ofRead More →

In this post, I will explain how to configure a JMeter script to perform an Oracle ADF Load Test. As you know, most of the popular dynamic web frameworks should be configured for correlating processes on JMeter. Correlation is simply the process of capturing and storing the dynamic response from the server and passing it on to subsequent requests. Unlike other frameworks, you should spend extra effort configuring correlation dynamic variables when working with Oracle ADFRead More →

selenium_webdriverredline13

We are pleased to announce that you can now use Selenium WebDriver to create and run performance tests on RedLine13. You only need change how you load the driver; this will not impact your existing WebDriver scripts at all. By using your existing scripts (or new ones), you can launch PhantomJS, Chrome, or Firefox instances in the cloud simulating hundreds or thousands of users. We have load tested a 5,000 real user simulation with a WebDriverRead More →

In this video we 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. Getting Started When running a URL test on RedLine13, begin by logging into your account, hit “Start Test”, and then click the “Simple Test” tab. Next, begin to enter the parameters of your load test. In this example we will have 100 virtualRead More →

redline13-custom-load-test-python

RedLine13 offers users the ability to scale out custom python load tests in their own AWS environment. In this video, we demonstrate uploading and running a simple python test on RedLine13, showing how simple and cost-effective it is to run python load tests with RedLine13. Getting Started When running a custom python load test on RedLine13, we begin by logging into our account, hitting “Start Test”, and then navigating to the “Custom Test” tab. One will needRead More →

RedLine13 + Testing Diaries Webinar

We conducted our first-ever webinar on August 25th with Maharshi Shah from Testing Diaries, and we wanted to recap and share the recording of the webinar for our users in case anyone missed out. For the first webinar titled “Getting Started With Performance Testing”, we discuss a range of topics that are valuable to those that are just starting out with performance tests. Provided in this post is a recording of the webinar, and in itRead More →

RedLine13 continues making load testing easier and cheaper than anyone else. We have extended RedLine13 Gatling support to generate Gatling Reports across all of your load agents.  This allows you to take advantage of the RedLine13 generated metrics and full access to the Gatling reports. You can run your gatling test on 1 – 100 (technically even more) servers and your output will include the cross-agent gatling report.  This is supported for Gatling version 2.1.x or Gatling 2.2.x,Read More →