You have written your test plan and are ready to run your cloud-based load test with RedLine13, leveraging AWS resources to easily scale your load profile. However, before you can launch your test, you’ll need to decide on how many EC2 load testing servers you will need. In this brief guide, we will discuss the concepts and simple calculations to help you determine that number.Read More →
Apache JMeter is an open source application designed for performance testing of functional behaviors. RedLine13 is 100% JMeter compatible and provides a wide range of features and advantages. In this short article we describe some of the key features where RedLine13 complements JMeter. Simplify JMeter At Scale: Upload and Test. Building a load test plan at scale requires coordination of resources, network management, and JMeter configuration. And if you have ever run load tests previously youRead More →
JMeter has become the industry standard for load testing. If you don’t know, JMeter is an Apache project used as a load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of various services, with a focus on web applications. This post will talk about some very different companies and their efforts to scale their JMeter tests. If you are running JMeter locally and need to simulate many concurrent users, there are limitations on the number ofRead 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 →
RedLine13 Users from across the globe have a lot to say about what’s important to them when load testing. Singapore Lyon Lim, Cofounder and CEO of PigeonLab, maker of PigeonHole Live: “An indispensable tool we use to load/stress test upcoming features, as well as optimising performance. Beneath the hood, your tech is solid! RedLine13 has been able to help us test large scale events for Pigeonhole Live. For example, before we released Quiz, we made sureRead More →
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 →
