What is Load Testing? There are a lot of good definitions. Wikipedia: “Load testing generally refers to the practice of modeling the expected usage of a software program by simulating multiple users accessing the program concurrently. “A better way to define it may be to ask ‘what are the objectives of your load testing?’ We wrote a blog post three years ago about the objectives of load testing: #1 Common Sense of Load Testing. How haveRead More →
Codeship provides Basic and Pro. For Codeship Basic integration, read Load Testing on Codeship with Redline13 – it just makes sense. With Basic you can run any command. Pro is a fully customizable Continuous Integration Platform with native Docker support. To integrate with Codeship Pro we have used Encrypted environment variables Service definition in codeship-services.yml Build steps defined in codeship-steps.yml 1 – Make your RedLine13 API Key available as an encrypted environment variable Get your RedLine13Read More →
Making sure software behaves properly under a tester’s hands is important, but it’s not enough by itself. More strenuous tests are needed to see if it works day after day in a production environment. Software that will run on heavily used websites is especially in need of that kind of testing. Not all bugs will show up in unit tests and with single users. Automated tests, simulating aspects of real-life concerns, are an essential part ofRead More →
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 →
As a load testing company, performance is something we care about. While load testing is something that’s very important to consider, there are a few things that you can do before you load test that will improve the speed of your website. From reducing the number of requests to enabling browser caching, here are six simple things that you can do to increase the performance of your website. Minimize Server Response Time One of the firstRead More →
Introduction When it comes to performance and load testing, it’s not uncommon that engineers/QA teams wait until the end of a product development lifecycle to start testing. Theoretically, this makes sense, as you can’t test an incomplete project, right? Well, maybe that’s not the case. As Agile software development has become a popular way many companies approach engineering, this fast-paced environment can put pressure on testers, especially when there are strict deadlines. So what if instead ofRead 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 →
Now that the first week of 2017 is officially over, let’s take a look back at some of 2016’s biggest load testing blunders. The story is familiar: a site experiences heavy load, they forgot to do performance testing, and then their site goes down. Here are a few examples to show you exactly why you should load test as we look at the biggest load testing blunders of 2016. 8. The Hamilton Ticket Lottery The popular BroadwayRead More →
Intro We can gain a lot of insight into how applications or websites perform thanks to load testing. If you’re serious about testing, running tests inside your local environment will only take you so far. Eventually you will need some kind of solution that allows you to scale. This is where cloud load testing comes into play. Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running & maintaining the hardware neededRead More →
In our most recent webinar we talk with Shantonu Sarker, a senior full stack software performance & automation engineer in test from Luxoft. Shantonu has nearly 10 years of experience in the industry and writes for his website “A Test Developer’s Blog“. He’s going to take us through the basics of performance monitoring when it comes to testing. We would like to again thank Shantonu for hosting this webinar with us, and look forward to futureRead More →