While Apache Jmeter is packed with features and is extremely powerful, this popular testing tool can be a little daunting at times for first-time user that want to optimize their test plans. In this article we are going to take a look at 8 useful tips for optimizing JMeter tests plans which in turn help you become a more efficient tester. Don’t run Production Load Tests in GUI Mode While it’s okay to run small testsRead More →
The Apache Software Foundation has recently delivered the newest version of JMeter, version 3.1, and RedLine13 now offers support for this latest release: What’s New in JMeter 3.1 1.) Updated Reports and Dashboard Connect Time Over Time The new graph, “Connect Time over Time” allows you to see the amount of time it took each request to connect throughout the course of your test. As performance testers, response time is something we pay special attention to and this graph allowsRead More →
What’s New With RedLine13? Things are moving fast with RedLine13 as we continually strive to offer our users an affordable, practical, and useful load testing platform which we are constantly improving upon. In this past month we have: Updated our Selenium-IDE Firefox Plugin Communicated with some of our power users to begin developing a series of case studies examining how companies incorporate and draw value from load testing. Let us know your story! Examined how cloud load testingRead More →
What’s New With RedLine13? We’ve been very busy since the last time we’ve reached out to our subscribers. In the time that has passed we have: Added new test tracking features Updated region support for Amazon Web Services Added the ability to create tests based on Apache & NGINX WebServer log files Grown to over 2,000 active users Have a combined total of over 27,000 tests ran with RedLine13. Brought on new staff members RedLine13 By TheRead More →
From the Open Source Load Testing presentation http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing If you have been through the process of build and running load tests, I am sure you have gone through all the emotions that come with it. From the fun of taking down your site or API, to the agony of not knowing where the bottleneck is, and eventually the eureka moment when you resolve the issue and run your next load test. Here are some of my emotions.Read More →
Richard Friedman recently gave a talk at FOSSCON2015 on Open Source Load Testing. It covered Common Sense of Load Testing What we measure with Load Testing Simple Load Testing Process Joys and pain of load testing When do we load test Scaling load tests old way Scaling load tests new way How we monitor the results Review of the Open Source Load Testing Tools such as JMeter, Gatling, The Grinder, and many others. Why integrate load testing with continuousRead More →
Gatling Support This post is a bit delayed because the conversation really started at AWS re:Invent. As noted in the review post by Bob it was a great event and we appreciated the love from many folks coming to our less than impressive booth. While we received many requests for info on our Jenkins and JMeter integration, quite a few folks asked us about Gatling support. Why Gatling.io for RedLine? In building Redline we were thinking about theRead More →