cloud-load-testing

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 →

iCIMS Case Study Introduction Here at RedLine13 we always look forward to hearing from our clients about how they specifically use our services. This not only provides other users with insights into how people incorporate and use RedLine13 into their workflow, but it also allows us to improve upon what we do as a company. In an effort to accomplish these goals, we have spoken with some of our clients that regularly use our service. We touchedRead More →

SOASTA is a leading name within the testing industry, offering a great range of testing solutions. Not only do they have load testing solutions, they also offer real user monitoring services, continuous mobile app testing, expert support, and much more. SOASTA offers feature-rich tools and solutions that are ideal for large businesses, however the biggest downside with SOASTA is cost: their plans are expensive. So what if there was a way that you could access what SOASTARead More →

For many first-time testers or even experienced QA managers, load testing can be a daunting task. But it certainly doesn’t have to be, especially when there’s a passionate and active community of testers out there providing others with a host of resources. Jason Lotito, the DevOps lead architect for MeetMe, gave a few presentations awhile back on cloud load testing. He even goes over a few sample tests and shows you how it’s done. We wanted to passRead More →

Load testing may seem like a tiresome, difficult, and expensive task, however that is actually far from the truth. Here at RedLine13 we’re all about “almost” free load testing, and even when you do have to pay for testing, the cost is exponentially less compared to other services out there. Additionally, load testing isn’t necessarily as complicated or involved as you might think, as our users and others have been saying. Martin Larsen, the Senior DeveloperRead More →

At RedLine13 we aim to offer our users a streamlined, informative, and reliable service that often times works in sync with other load testing platforms and services. From running simple URL tests to testing various API’s, we’ve got your back. As RedLine13 continues to offer some of the most competitive subscription pricing on the market (after all, we are “almost” free load testing), RedLine13 becomes a viable and appealing solution not only to be used independently,Read More →

HTTP Cache Manager – Why I should use it and an example. JMeter is not a browser, but JMeter provides config elements which helped to mimic the browser behavior and make your tests more realistic. “Cache manager” is used to simulate the browser caching behavior in Jmeter by adding caching functionality to HTTP requests within its scope. In general, a browser caches files locally including any documents that make up a website, such as HTML files, CSS styleRead More →

The BlazeMeter Chrome Extension is a very good Apache JMeter test plan recorder directly in the browser.  It is a great improvement over the default JMeter recorder, which is a bit old-school and acts as a proxy on your system. Though BlazeMeter has not open sourced or contributed this back to the community, they do allow you to export valid JMeter test plans. We appreciate this free-to-use recorder and can quickly demonstrate recording and playing back at scale on RedLine13.Read More →