Getting Started with Load Testing

Beginner tutorials for starting out with Load Testing

20 articles in this collection
Written by Tim Koopmans, Ivan Vanderbyl, Prathmesh Sail and 2 others

What is Flood?

An introduction to Flood and how it can help you run your load tests

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

What Are Projects, Streams and Floods?

An explanation of some of the terminology used in Flood

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

Are You Using the Right Load Test Tool for the Job?

Here is an in-depth look at each supported performance test tool to help you choose the right one for the job.

Written by Jason Rizio
Updated over a week ago

Step-by-step Guide: The Test Builder

A step-by-step guide to getting up and running with the Flood Test Builder

Written by Jason Rizio
Updated over a week ago

Step-by-step Guide: JMeter

A guide to getting up and running with Jmeter on Flood

Written by Jason Rizio
Updated over a week ago

Step-by-step Guide: Gatling

A guide to getting up and running with Gatling on Flood

Written by Jason Rizio
Updated over a week ago

Step-by-Step Guide: Flood Element

How to run your first load test using Flood Element

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

Step-by-step Guide: Selenium

A guide to getting up and running with Selenium on Flood

Written by Jason Rizio
Updated over a week ago

Where can I execute my load tests?

All options for running floods, both in the cloud and on-premises

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

What is ramp up?

definition of ramp up period, why it matters, and what to use

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

How to Stop Floods and Grids from the UI

Stopping a flood and a grid and preventing unwanted charges

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

Monitoring in Flood

What metrics do we show you about your test?

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

Using the Flood Explorer

How to use and interpret Flood's real-time dashboard

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

Understanding Transaction Detail View Graph

What do the shapes and colors in the Transaction Detail graph mean?

Written by Nicole van der Hoeven
Updated over a week ago

Grid resource utilization

Find out how to get grid node resource utilization during your tests.

Written by Prathmesh Sail
Updated over a week ago

JMeter

Getting started with JMeter

Written by Ivan Vanderbyl
Updated over a week ago

Getting started with Ruby JMeter

Ruby JMeter is an easy to use language which outputs fully-compatible JMeter scripts

Written by Ivan Vanderbyl
Updated over a week ago

Gatling

Getting started with Gatling

Flood has native support for Gatling, here are a few steps you'll need to follow so that we can receive your results.

Written by Ivan Vanderbyl
Updated over a week ago

Grids

Getting started with Grids

Grids are the distributed load test infrastructure that you run your flood tests on. They can be started on demand or you can host your own.

Written by Tim Koopmans
Updated over a week ago

Results

Sharing results

How to share results from Flood with other colleagues

Written by Tim Koopmans
Updated over a week ago