Installing Agile Load
Installing AgileLoad software is easy and self-explanatory.
AgileLoad is software that runs on Windows Machines. You will need administrative rights on your computer to install AgileLoad correctly.
Once it’s installed then you are ready for the first steps of load testing. If you have some difficulties we explain the process in the video here!
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Setting up an Amazon EC2 Virtual Machine as an Injector for Agile Load
Setting up a Virtual Machine in Amazon EC2 for use with Agile Load is easy, in this short video we show you how.
Here we launch an Amazon Instance that is preconfigured with AgileLoad. Before launching we set up a Key Pair (necessary to connect to an Amazon Instance and also necessary if you want to get the administrator password). We also set up an elastic IP address so that we have an address to connect to and finally we set up a security group which is really a firewall, here we configure ports for Agile Load and for RDP so that we can connect to the machine we have just launched.
In short, Amazon EC2 can be used to launch multiple injectors for Agile Load and those injectors can be hosted around the world. In this case we use the Amazon European data centre. This model makes a scalable, diverse and affordable platform for load testing which is why we chose to use it for these videos.
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Cloud base performance testing with AgileLoad
Performance / load testing from the cloud has many benefits.
Cloud load and performance testing enables low cost execution of very large tests without having to invest in large infrastructures by using Amazons redundant data centres.
Furthermore cloud based load and performance testing allows load generation from around the world to simulate users in other countries thereby testing the entire end to end infrastructure including your gateways, load balancers and the internet. An understanding can be gained of end user experience and contracting between local and very remote users will show the sum total of the effects of jitter, latency and bandwidth issues.
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