Load Testing Blog
Load Tester™ 4.1 Adds West-coast Cloud for Load Generation
The 4.1 release expands Load Tester’s cloud support by adding a third source for load generation – the Amazon EC2 USA West region. When added to the USA East and European Union regions, the combination supports generating massive amounts of load against websites in North American and Europe.
If you already have one or more cloud accounts configured in Load Tester, you simply add another account, provide the account credentials and select USA West from the region selection.
Chris Merrill, Chief Engineer
Discounted Advanced Server Analysis Licenses Now Available for Lease
Only need to run one or two load testing sessions a year? One cost-effective way to do occasional load testing is to rent licenses by the week or month. You can use the free demo to develop test cases, and then order the temporary license when you’re ready to start testing. Even customers who already own licenses find it convenient to rent Load Tester licenses with a larger number of virtual users to do testing of the installed software. The typical scenario is using a permanent license to test against the development or test system, … Continue reading »
Load Tester 4.1 Brings Web Bandwidth Measurement to Load Testing
Durham, NC (PRWEB) June 14, 2010 — Web Performance announces major improvements with the new release of Load Tester 4.1. In addition to push-button cloud-based load testing, users can now quickly measure their bandwidth capacity using the Bandwidth Wizard, easily get immediate help from a Web Performance engineer with desktop-share help integration, and select from a wider range of Amazon cloud locations. The newly reorganized load testing reports include an executive summary and clearer graphs to make analysis even easier than before.
“I’m excited to get our new web bandwidth measurement feature into customer’s hands because it quickly solves … Continue reading »
Custom Report Logo in Load Tester™ 4.1
Load Tester 4.1 has a new feature that will be much-appreciated by our many customers who use Load Tester to provide load testing services to their clients. You can now customize the load test report with your own logo image!
Load Tester’s default report logo looks like this:
If you press the Settings button in the report viewer and then select the Report Settings tab, you will find you can choose any image to replace our logo (we recommend an image size of 200×60 pixels):
After accepting that change, the report will show the image you have chosen:
Note that when you change the … Continue reading »
Keeping your HOSTS files in sync with Load Tester 4.1
Load Tester 4.1 has a number of exciting new features, but in this post, let’s discuss one of the less obvious features: a hosts file which is automatically synchronized with all your Load Engines.
Consider how often this happens: the development environment is mirrored from your production environment, and then updated to an internal version of the application, ready for testing. Since the development environment is otherwise a mirror of the production system, it is configured with the same virtual hostnames as your production environment, and / or it may share the same SSL certificates which identify it with the hostname … Continue reading »
It’s Always Nice to Hear…
We know we’ve got great people working here…but we still love it when a customer takes time out of their busy days to compliment one of them. After some recent on-site training and performance tuning for a local customer, George Terrone, President of Integrated Technical Services, wrote to tell us this:
Matt did an absolutely fantastic job. And the timing of his engagement could not have been better. He not only helped our customer understand your product better – he helped to solve a serious Apache problem that had stymied us all.
His Apache expertise – and his attitude – were both … Continue reading »
Large Load Tests on the Cheap
Need to generate thousands of concurrent users but don’t want to pay big bucks for a large license? You may not know that licenses to generate 1,000 or more concurrent users are available on a week-by-week basis. And now that Load Tester 4 can automatically generate massive amounts of load against data centers, leasing makes even more sense.
For existing customers, this means they can purchase a lower-level license for day-to-day use, and then just lease the larger licenses for a big final round of testing. We’ve had a tremendous response from existing customers who normally test … Continue reading »
Configuring and Analyzing Performance Goals
A tutorial on customizing the analysis that Load Tester automatically provides in its reports.
When Load Testing Just Works
One of the main features I wanted to design into a load testing tool was the ability to “just work” for most things. Reverse engineering how a website works just to get a load test done is no fun, especially since its possible to automate much of the process and you can spend your time testing instead. Which is why it was great to get an email from someone trying our demo who noticed we handled his dynamic SID configuration in a few minutes where his previous load testing tool took four hours.
The specific thing I was referring to … Continue reading »
Web Performance Load Tests Race Car
At Web Performance we’re interested in things that go fast, whether they’re websites or cars, so it’s only natural that we are sponsoring Jason Tower’s inaugural road racing season in his BMW Spec E30. As a rallycrosser myself, I’m excited to be involved with grassroots racing as Jason – pardon the pun – stress tests his E30 on courses from VIR to Mid Ohio to Road Atlanta. He’s so good, he can turn left AND right!
The Spec E30 concept is cool: drivers compete based on their driving skills, not their wallet, which is where you get … Continue reading »
