comparing k6, gatling and jmeter

K6 was released on GitHub not long ago in 2017 and since then has gained increasing popularity. Five years before then, in 2012, Gatling was released and also had very fast growth. You can see how active they have both become with the number of stack overflow questions and GitHub forks. There are some clear differences between the K6 and Gatling. K6 is JavaScript-based and Gatling is Scala-based. K6 is developer-centric and Gatling is not. ButRead More →

Performance test video streaming services

RedLine13 Technology Partner UBIK has published a case study using UbikLoadPack and RedLine13 to performance test video streaming services. Their client wanted to verify that his infrastructure could properly handle the delivery of a live sporting event with up to 150,000 watchers. The test needed to verify the following: Test Objectives Customers user experience (no lags, accuracy of stream, no delay) CDN and Origin delivery performance Bandwidth of the network Load balancing across 2 Data centersRead 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 →

UBIK Video Streaming Plugin

JMeter Video Streaming with UBIK Load Pack Video Steaming Plugin 6.2.5 Our friends at UBIK-Ingénierie have recently updated their video streaming plugin. Prior to the launch of the original plugin, there wasn’t really an easy or efficient means to test JMeter video streaming. So the UBIK team created the UBIK Load Pack Video Steaming Plugin as a means to do so. We have also integrated this plugin into core RedLine13 testing services, so you can now cloudRead More →

ubik-video-streaming-sampler-3-0-0-redline13-1

UBIK Load Pack Video Streaming Plugin 3.0.0 Our friends at UBIK-Ingénierie have recently updated their video streaming plugin. With the launch of version 3.0.0, UBIK has renamed the HLS Plugin to “UBIK Load Pack Video Streaming Plugin”. Prior to the launch of the original HLS plugin, there wasn’t really an easy or efficient means to test video streaming inside of Apache JMeter. So the UBIK team created the HLS Plugin as a means to do so. HLS, orRead More →

JMeter 3.0 is a major update from the community and one that is years in the making. For any open source project to pull off a release of this size is no easy accomplishment. Contributions from 26 individuals are mentioned and we are sure many good discussions in the forum drove ideas and collaboration. With this release, JMeter continues to solidify itself as the leader in performance testing; a workhorse that has been providing value for moreRead More →

Starting Point We used the provided tutorial and demo as our starting point. http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/load-testing-gwt-rpc-applications-with-ubik-load-pack-plugin-for-jmeter/ Highlights of UBIKLoadPack GWT With all the good features below I would like to add a very important note – without this plugin it is near impossible to test GWT applications.  The plugin reduces the complexity by many orders of magnitudes. Recording made easy Converts the gwt request format to XML Provides readable view in the Body Data Results viewable Results tree convertRead More →

Starting Point We used the provided tutorial and demo as our starting point. http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/easy-and-realistic-load-testing-of-http-live-streaming-hls-with-apache-jmeter/ We are playing back this video stream (http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/javafx/JavaRap/prog_index.m3u8)  for our Java friends. Highlights of UBIKLoadPack HTTP Live Stream Simplified Testing provide link to stream quick see the playlist control bandwidth Play all or selection More than standard metrics Buffer fill time Lag Time Play time Lag Ratio Download Time Use standard assertions can be applied to custom metrics ensure full video downloads  Read More →

Starting Point We used the provided tutorial and demo as our starting point. http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com/blog/load-testing-flex-with-jmeter-made-easy/ Highlights of UBIKLoadPack Flex Dynamically Convert AMF request to XML while Recording While recording through proxy requests will automatically be converted into XML. ULP_AMF Sampler created Simple viewing of object Make the tests dynamic via string parameter substitution Update XML with ${parameter} Integrate with Configuration and CSV Config Convert response to XML Extracts XML into Variable as a PostProcessor Extracts XPATH assertions or extractor as weRead More →

Simply put, over the past few weeks getting to know Philippe Mouawad  from UBIKLoadPack has been an absolute pleasure.  When we decided it would be interesting to work together and support the UBIKLoadPack we did not have a way to simply drop in all the plugins.  As a customer of both, you had to do all the work yourself.  He was very patient with us updating our architecture to make this very simple for users. IRead More →