Install JMeter Plugins Automatically from Jenkins

Our RedLine13 plugin for Jenkins can automate performance testing at build time and in continuous deployment environments.  Recently, we extended this with the ability to install publicly available JMeter plugins automatically from within Jenkins.  In this brief article, we will explain in a few basic steps how to enable this feature.Read More →

RedLine13 was built for JMeter Cloud Load Testing. That gives you several advantages. This allows you to scale your JMeter tests to any size. It works with Apache JMeter and other open source platforms and plugins. And you can easily make testing part of your CI/CD environment with Jenkins and other platforms. Background Before the cloud, testing was very expensive to run. The costs associated with running and maintaining the hardware needed for performance tests wereRead More →

Sometimes, you need to use large files in your JMeter tests.  Instead of uploading the files to RedLine13 for each test, you can store the files on your own server and download them on the load agents.  Another advantage of hosting the files yourself is that you might have sensitive information in the file and don’t want to upload it to RedLine13 servers.  To download self-hosted files for JMeter tests, you can use the JMeter FileRead More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

If you get a plugin from the JMeter plugin website you can attach it to your test and RedLine13 will put it in the right place! If you haven’t used JMeter with Redline13, first check out how to Get Started. Here are the steps to use a JMeter Plugin: 1. Download the plugin from https://jmeter-plugins.org/ 2. Next, download the latest, expand it, you will see a few .jar files 3. When starting your JMeter test justRead More →

We would like to introduce a RedLine13 plugin which supports sending load agent system and process metrics to InfluxDB via Telegraf.  There exists a multitude of reasons for wanting to do such, just as one customer has implemented a sophisticated real-time performance metrics dashboard using Grafana. In this step-by-step guide, we will cover the following: Using this plugin Using the plugin with JMeter BackEnd Listener Available stats How the plugin works on load agents Using thisRead More →

We have created a plugin for RedLine13 users to execute Gatling tests using SBT + Java. This is accomplished by first using SBT Assembly to package a JAR prepared with everything required to run the tests. sbt “it:assembly” After the package is created you can test locally java -jar target/scala-2.11/gatling-tests-as-jar-1.0.jar -s example.SomeGatlingSimulation A community member provided an example project that can be used to model here. After we have used SBT to package our JAR, we can take the generated JARRead More →

Composer Plugin RedLine13

Release – Composer Plugin for Load Testing Ready for release – Composer Plugin. Composer is a Dependency Manager for PHP which allows you to install various packages before you run a load test. Users just need to install the Plugin (refer to our plugin instillation guide) and are then immediately able to get started using the plugin for custom PHP tests. How to use To include packages with your custom PHP test Include an extra file with your testRead More →

Installing and using RedLine13 load testing plugins is a fairly easy and straightforward process that we will go over in this post. After you have already signed up and created a RedLine13 account, simply log in to get started. Once you have logged in, click the “Account” tab and then “Your Plugins”. We will then find ourselves at the Plugin Manager page. Here we can create and manage our various load testing plugins. To install a plugin, simply click theRead More →

The Selenium+JMeter plugin was built for QA teams to support functional and performance testing from the same test plan. Our plugin captures Selenium test playback which can then be downloaded as a standard JMeter .jmx file. This can be uploaded back into JMeter or run via a cloud test using RedLine13 or other cloud load testing providers. To help you get started, we will take a brief look at how to setup and use our FirefoxRead More →