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BlazeMeter

Score8.1 out of 10

25 Reviews and Ratings

What is BlazeMeter?

The BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform is a unified, end-to-end, next-generation software test automation platform built for both Agile and COE teams, from Perforce. BlazeMeter includes complete continuous testing capabilities deeply integrated into a single, intuitive workflow.

Best Tool for Load and Performance Testing

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BlazeMeter is best for performance and load testing. When we were migrated from old data center to new data center we used this for load and performance testing. We integrated it with CI/CD pipeline for automation testing with every build. It has best GUI one can learn and implement the test script easily. It allows us create multiple project on console based on our requirements. We are also using this for functional testing. we have seet alert and trigger report to specific group on completion of testing. We can also fetch historical test report from It's report section.

Pros

  • Load Testing -> Comparing API response in old server and new server
  • Functional testing
  • Integration with Jenkins so It will trigger automatically with CI/CD pipeline
  • We get email about test reports which shows API response details.

Cons

  • It required good knowledge to analyze BlazeMeter report.

Most Important Features

  • Load testing when moving old data center to new data center
  • Integration with Jenkins so script will run with every new code build.
  • Functional testing when using new technology

Return on Investment

  • It helps for right technology selection when modernization of application.
  • Cloud adoption help

The Real Blaze

Pros

  • Its compatibility with open source Apache JMeter is a huge Plus
  • Blazemeter GUI provides the capability to load scripts and get into action much faster and easier
  • No expertise is needed to do the load testing

Cons

  • BlazeMeter Google chrome extension can be improved in usability sense
  • Script creations with record feature can be improved

Most Important Features

  • Load testing capability
  • Good quality GUI which facilitates all team members to use it
  • Cloud based Load generation feature

Return on Investment

  • It helped positively by helping to identify the maximum capacity needed for high traffic periods
  • Saved revenue by eliminating unwanted duplication of systems

Alternatives Considered

Apache JMeter

Other Software Used

SDL Tridion, Blend, Apache Kafka

BlazeMeter, clean interface and easy to use.

Pros

  • Results are easy to read
  • Tests can be run easily
  • Tests can ben imported easily from jMeter

Cons

  • none at all, I really took my time thinking about this and the tool is really simple, clean and complete

Return on Investment

  • We have detected performance breaks in our app during early stages and avoided to take this problems into production.
  • We have been able to test our APIs and have a measurement of the performance.

Alternatives Considered

Postman, Apache JMeter, Cypress, CucumberStudio and from SmartBear (formerly HipTest)

Other Software Used

CucumberStudio, from SmartBear (formerly HipTest), Postman, Cypress

BlazeMeter offers a great SaaS solution for running performance tests in the cloud

Pros

  • BlazeMeter takes the .jmx script that teams had written for JMeter. The transition from JMeter to BlazeMeter was seamless.
  • BlazeMeter offers its own cloud and hence we did not have to set it up on-premise.
  • BlazeMeter hits our application from various geographic locations that simulates real life users.

Cons

  • BlazeMeter should not require the purchase of 2 dedicated IPs for each suite of performance tests.
  • BlazeMeter should make custom packages cheaper than they are today when purchased for an enterprise and should include dedicated IPs in the package.
  • BlazeMerer should have integration with Jenkins Pipeline 2.0.

Return on Investment

  • BlazeMerter helped performance tests run on their cloud, thereby diminishing our on-prem setup costs tremendously.
  • BlazeMeter pings our application from several geographical locations, thereby simulating real life users.
  • BlazeMeter offers dedicated IPs so that firewall issues can be bypassed.

Alternatives Considered

SOASTA

Other Software Used

Sauce Labs, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

BlazeMeter is great if you need results now and have no idea what you are doing

Pros

  • Blazemeter has very intuitive and uncluttered UI. It is very easy for a beginner to figure out and get started.
  • Blazemeter allows several methods of creating performance tests - using several popular open source applications. Therefore most often there is no need to learn to use a new tool or language.

Cons

  • Blazemeter reporting is very basic and shallow. There is no way to drill down or correlate. I can get better reports by using JMeter for free.
  • Blazemeter is very costly. Testing with volumes of more than 1K cu is expensive, and can be done for much cheaper if a company/team is willing to invest a bit of time to figure out how to use cloud instances and jmeter slaves, and to write a basic script to collect resulting xml output.

Return on Investment

  • Running a performance test to determine how much load our site could sustain gave us some needed insight.

Other Software Used

JMeter