Speak the Lingo using Load Testing Terms

Load testing is a niche skill within the large trade of quality assurance. With any trade, being able to communicate effectively the nuances and concepts used is essential. In this brief post, we will go over several definitions that will allow you to speak the lingo using load testing terms. Below we have divided these into categories for better organization: General load testing terms Load generator server – Each load test is run on one orRead More →

A JMeter Soak Test is a long running load test using JMeter. We’ll talk more below. But if you’re going to run a long test, there are costs that need to be understood. We’ll talk about that with an example from RedLine13 customer University of California. What is Soak Testing There is plenty of information out there. Software Testing Help says: “It is a type of performance testing to check if an Application Under Test (AUT)Read More →

RedLine13 Soak Testing for Customer Sure Petcare

Animal intelligence meets the world of pets. Here’s how an international corporation turned to RedLine13 for soak testing of their global pet monitoring system to mitigate DDoS attacks. Sure Petcare, part of Antelliq, the World’s Leading Animal Intelligence Group, developed a system where a pet owner periodically sends information about his pet’s activity and the server processes this information asynchronously. They provide pet owners with smart devices and data that give them a better understanding ofRead 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 →