Resources

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Plugins & Tools

Learn more about how you can create and run BlazeMeter tests using our GitHub Action, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Drone.io CI/CD integrations below.

Courses

JMeter 100: Intro, Install, and Basic Scripting

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to JMeter and all of its various functionalities that can be used to develop load testing scripts. We will walk through all the elements of a test plan and use those elements to create simple test scripts.

Webinars

Preparing For Max Load: Our Expert Tips & Tricks

Is your site or app ready for peak traffic? Join this webinar to learn practical tips and tricks to prepare your site to handle max load—straight from the experts.

Trust Your APIs

Less downtime. Fewer support tickets. Faster time to resolution. We’ll tell you when your APIs break before your customers do. Watch the demo now.

Simplifying Your LoadRunner Migration: Everything You Need to Know

Do you find yourself unable to quickly and effectively respond to marketplace opportunities? If so, you’re not alone. Many organizations are looking to digitally transform their legacy performance testing systems by implementing an agile, shift-left system.

Stress Testing With BlazeMeter: How The New York Times Prepared for the Election Season

Join The New York Times’ Shesh Patel, Engineering Manager, and Prathamesh Nagle, Lead Software Engineer, to discover how the news powerhouse planned, prepared and executed—all while doubling subscribers—during this high traffic event.

Blog

Preparing your Performance Testing for 2023: 5 Challenges and Solutions

In 2022, companies turned to technological solutions and methodologies that enabled them to respond to the growing demand and achieve these goals. What changes will be made in 2023? We asked BlazeRunner customers what the most significant challenges they expected to face were. Here is what they had to say and our proposed solutions.

Should You Load Test Your Applications?

Web-based services and applications have become critical to our daily lives, especially in the context of the COVID-19. Learn how to overcome website outages.

How to Migrate from LoadRunner to BlazeMeter in 4 Easy Steps

The migration process from LoadRunner to BlazeMeter might seem intimidating. This post provides four easy steps to help plan, design and execute script migration.

IoT Testing Using the MQTT Protocol, JMeter and BlazeMeter

Do you find yourself unable to quickly and effectively respond to marketplace opportunities? If so, you’re not alone. Many organizations are looking to digitally transform their legacy performance testing systems by implementing an agile, shift-left system.

How to Share Dedicated IPs Between BlazeMeter Workspaces

In BlazeMeter, your dedicated IPs might be provisioned to a certain workspace. But this can be easily fixed! Let’s see how.

Why Use Selenium For Automation Testing

Selenium test scripts can be written in multiple languages. This article outlines how the components in the Selenium tool suite make it the best automation testing tool.

IoT Testing Using Locust, Paho, and BlazeMeter

For most intents and purposes, JMeter would probably not be the ideal tool for creating scenarios in the IoT world. That’s where Locust comes in as a better alternative.

What is Agile Testing and Why is it Right for You?

The most popular testing models can be roughly divided into waterfall and agile. In this blog you will learn the advantages and disadvantages of these two methods and why agile testing is most likely better for you.

What’s New In Selenium 4

Selenium is a widely used test automation tool for web applications. Let’s look at the improvements and new features in the eagerly anticipated Selenium 4.

A Guide to Soak Testing and Spike Testing 

This article will look at two types of performance testing: soak testing and spike testing. We’ll first recap stress testing and then take a closer look at other types of tests.

Selenium vs. Cypress- A Complete Comparison Between the Two Testing Frameworks

While Selenium is widely used for web application testing, Cypress is rapidly gaining widespread adoption. Let’s dig deeper into these two test automation platforms.

What is Selenium Framework? And How to Get Started with Selenium?

All your Selenium questions – answered. What are the Selenium Framework Features? What are the Benefits of Selenium Framework? Which Tool Types Does the Selenium Framework Consist of? and many more.

Open Source Load Testing Tools 2021

In software development things are changing fast, new tools appear, old tools lose popularity. Here is the full list of the best open source performance tools in 2021.

Selenium vs Scrapy: Which One Should You Choose for Web Scraping?

There are various tools for web scraping. In this article we’ll focus on Selenium and Scrapy, the most popular web scraping frameworks and analyze their main differences.

Selenium vs. Beautiful Soup: A Full Comparison

The limitless amounts of data available online can be downloaded and analyzed in a variety of ways. Researchers can take disparate evidence pulled from multiple web sources and draw statistical conclusions.

How to Install Jenkins on Windows

Find the Jenkins installation in this easy guide. This tutorial will take you step by step to installing the Jenkins CI server on Windows. Start automating today.

Node-RED Flows and IoT Device Testing with BlazeMeter

In this article we take a look at the popular Node-RED programming tool which is used to code devices using “flows” and discuss the best ways to test them.

How to Install Selenium WebDriver for Java

By using Selenium WebDriver, testers can easily write their test cases efficiently and in less time. In this article you will learn about Selenium WebDriver and its Java installation.

Selenium Web Driver Commands: A Complete Tutorial

Top Selenium WebDriver commands to help you perform browser testing better. Get commands to help you execute operations on your browser, for navigation, for Web Element, action commands and for result commands.

Load Testing a Rendezvous Point with JMeter: A Guide

In this article we will show you how performance problems in the system can be prevented by doing load tests with a rendezvous point. Read the full guide here.

Should You Load Test Your Application with Open Source Tools?

Let’s look at the pros and cons of using open-source testing tools, followed by a comparison between four leading open-source performance testing tools. We will also show you when going for a premium paid solution is best for you.

Locust with Python: Introduction, Correlating Variables and Basic Assertions

In this post we will show you how to give your first steps using Locust, this great performance testing tool, by showing an example with a basic workflow developed in Python.