Write Scalable Code – use Jenkins to Automate your Load Testing

Starting today, we’re  accepting applications for early access to our new Load Impact Continuous Delivery service, which for the first time allows developers of websites, apps and APIs to make stress testing an integrated part of their continuous delivery process.

Our Continuous Delivery service comprises our API, SDKs and a library of plug-ins and integrations for popular continuous delivery systems – starting with Jenkins.

In order to better serve our customers and allow them to integrate their Continuous Delivery methodology with the Load Impact platform, we’re building programming libraries that make the API super easy to use. We’re starting with Jenkins and will soon rollout plug-ins for TeamCity, New Relic and CloudBees.

Simply put, the Jenkins plug-in will integrate load testing into developers’ automated Jenkins test suite to determine whether new builds meet specified traffic performance criteria.

(Download the plug-in)

The new Jenkins plug-in features multi-source load testing from up to 12 geographically distributed locations worldwide, advanced scripting, a GUI based session recorder to easily create tests simulating multiple typical user scenarios, and our new Server Metrics Agent (SMA) for correlating the Server Side impact of users on CPU, memory, disk space and network usage.

Read more about how to automate your load testing here and here.

Apply now to join our private beta group and receive FREE unlimited load testing for the duration of the beta period!

Announcing the Load Impact API beta

We are pleased to announce the Load Impact API beta!

the developer.loadimpact.com API documentation site

For people who do not know what an API is, or what it is good for, our API allows you to do basically everything you can do when logged in at loadimpact.com, like configure a load test, run a load test, download results data from a load test. But the API can be used by another program, communicating with Load Impact over the Internet. This means that a developer can write an application that will be able to use our API functionality to configure and run load tests on the Load Impact infrastructure – and this can happen completely without human involvement, if the developer chooses it.

The API is very useful for companies with a mature development process, where they e.g. do nightly builds – and run automated tests – on their software. The API allows them to include load tests in their automated test suites, and in that way monitor the performance and scalability of their application while it is being developed. This is useful in order to get an early indication that some piece of newly produced code doesn’t perform well under load/stress. The earlier such problems are detected, the less risk of developers wasting time working on code tracks that don’t meet the performance criteria set up for the application.

The API can also be used by other online services or applications, that want to include load testing functionality as part of the service/product, but where it is preferable to avoid building from scratch a complete load testing solution like Load Impact. They can use our API to integrate load testing functionality as part of their own product, with Load Impact providing that functionality for them.

We have created a whole new documentation section for the API at http://developer.loadimpact.com where you can find the API reference and some code examples. We will be delighted to hear from you if you are using the API, so don’t hesitate to get in touch with us! Feedback or questions are very welcome!