Load Testing

Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo, spoke about his new book The Hitchhiking Guide to Load Testing Projects at LoadTestWorld. This book will give you some tips and steps as you move through the different levels. I wanted to explain Load Testing like a video game. Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo Leandro included best practices from his years of load testing to help you with the challenges of load testing: Planning Documentation Script & Run Leandro’s bookRead More →

Load Test Command Line Execution

Nik Gregory of Acquia spoke about “Driving Loads Tests from the Command Line” at LoadTestWorld 2021. Nik started by saying how he’s not a fan of GUI’s for repetitive tasks which led to the work he has done and the time he has saved. The video is available on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. The Use Case he had was weekly baselining of their system which had daily changes. That meant that they had a lot of data to downloadRead More →

LoadTestWorld 2021 Recordings

LoadTestWorld was begun as an opportunity for members of the load testing community to meet and share! And we held the first conference. Now the LoadTestWorld 2021 recordings are available. We are happy with the reaction to starting and hosting LoadTestWorld. We are already working on the next LoadTestWorld for 2022. Follow LoadTestWorld on Twitter for the latest info. LoadTestWorld 2021 Recordings All speaker presentations from LoadTestWorld are now available on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. The talks covered a rangeRead More →

Large Scale Load Testing and EC2 Limits

If you are doing large scale load testing, you may run up against EC2 limits or other “service quotas” on your AWS account.  In this case, you will need a one-time Amazon approval for running your large tests. Read More →

How to Upload Data Files Above the Limit

There are certain situations where you may need to include files above file size and count limits of your RedLine13 subscription. In this brief guide, we will walk you through how to upload data files above this limit by hosting extra files in AWS S3.Read More →

How to Automatically Install JMeter Plugins

As part of a recent update, tests that you run on RedLine13 now have the ability to automatically detect and install JMeter plugins that are referenced by your test plan.  With a few simple one-time setup steps, automatic plugin installation can be accomplished from your JMeter tests with a single-click.Read More →

load testing shift left

As the combination of cloud and CI technology enables the “shift left” of DevOps, load testing is joining the crowd. Traditionally, load testing was used as a check before large releases of software or changes in infrastructure or an expected spike in usage to assure applications were performant. Solutions like Load Runner, Blazemeter and Apica were perfect for this use case. With the focus on automating the delivery of software in small, incremental steps with continuousRead More →

Stopping a JMeter test

Despite our best efforts, we have all been there before. That load test that just concluded generated thousands of errors that it shouldn’t have. It could have been a miscalculation or a shifted decimal place on estimated traffic volumes; or rather it was a configuration setting on the target machines that was overlooked. Regardless, we wish we could have intercepted that test early in its execution, possibly saving valuable time, data charges, and virtual machine costs.Read More →

test results in stunning Grafana

Making sense of load test performance metrics and displaying in a manner necessary to drive business decisions can be a challenging endeavor. This data usually comes from multiple different sources, and collecting it can be cumbersome. One way to lessen this burden is to automate the collection of these performance metrics into a unified analysis platform. This is precisely how one customer has leveraged simple plugins and a popular time series database to effortlessly display theirRead More →