Past Events
LoadTestWorld is an opportunity for members of the load testing community to meet virtually and share!
We recently held our second LoadTestWorld virtual conference on February 2nd, 2022. All of our guest speaker presentations for this event and as well as our prior event have been archived here for you to watch again. We hope to see you at our next conference!
February 22, 2022
8:05 am - 8:30 am
Turn your load test into an NFT - and other things you should never do with Web3
Rich Friedman, RedLine13 Co-Founder
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Log4j Vulnerability - Note to Performance Engineers
NaveenKumar Namachivayam, QAInsights
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Performance test smells
Eldad Uzman, Senior Automation Engineer at MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Enhancing Load Testing with the AWS Cloud
Lee Fox, AWS
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Hidden Gems of JMeter and Redline13
Piyush Patel, SQALogic
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
JVM performance optimization & tuning
Ram Lakshmanan, yCrash
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Panel Discussion - Future of Load Testing
Rich Friedman, RedLine13
Eldad Uzman, Merck
David Milette, SQALogic
Moderated by Chris Baeckstrom, RedLine13
October 6, 2021
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm
The state of Load Testing: From Performance Testing to Performance Engineering
David Milette, SQALogic
The way we develop and manage applications is evolving. This evolution is pushing organisations to think about quality testing in new ways to ensure it follows the evolution that is underway.
DevOps does not signify that testing and quality is out of scope but rather that it is embedded in every aspect of the application lifecycle from inception to EOL (End of Life).
More specifically, as it pertains to load testing, we are seeing a growing trend around moving from performance testing as a planned phase executed close to go-live to something that we engineer into every step of the application development lifecycle. In this brief talk we will take a quick look into this these new trends, it’s inherited implications and the advantages that come with it.
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Get Set Action
NaveenKumar Namachivayam, QAInsights
CI/CD is not a fad - it is a transformation of how products hit the market. GitHub Actions are now an integral part of developers' ecosystem to automate workflows. Starting from linting to production deployments, GitHub Actions are ubiquitous. In this presentation, we are going to see how we can leverage GitHub Actions for JMeter test plans to run performance tests for developers' events such as push, merge, new release etc. We will see how to integrate your test plans into GitHub Actions, scheduling, test execution matrix, results collection and more in a demo.
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Load test as Internal* service
Eldad Uzman, Senior Automation Engineer at MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs.
Collaborative efforts in performance testing.
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Performance Test Tools Comparison
Emily Ren, Principal Performance Consultant
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Removing Outliers from a JMeter Test
Dave Koziel, RedLine13
A significant issue with running load tests is contending with extraneous factors introducing errors into your test. Dave will talk about how to automatically remove outliers stemming from a specific common scenario using a Groovy script. Dave will show an example of how we can filter out the ramp-up and down timeframes from results and how we can focus on true peak performance.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Lessons learned at ACT
Heath Meyer, ACT
Heath will discuss ACTs move to RedLine13 and why it was such a pivotal transition for their organization.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Book: The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects
Leandro Melendez
Leandro Melendez, Señor Performo, will talk about his new book, The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects. A fun step-by-step walkthrough guide into load tests. In this book, he teaches fun examples, stories, and engaging tales about the steps (in order) that a performance engineer should take while executing load testing projects. But, it is not all fun and games, as he includes, after each fun story, all the official terms and accurate descriptions of a traditional load test project from beginning to end. Following the book's guidelines, he will share details around what the book describes, some tips, and inside looks into the content. All the information he will be sharing will align with the steps and best practices that a performance engineer should be following when doing a load test project.
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Driving load tests from the command line
Nik Gregory, Acquia
Nik will talk about developing a Command line driver for Redline13 using the rest API. As part of this talk, Nik will discuss the running of tests and doing data extraction and test run analysis through a CLI wrapper.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
The RedLine13 Story
Bob Bickel, RedLine13