The newly designed HTML version of the load test report now has a left-hand side index to make it easier to navigate to any part of the report quickly. The enhanced export to HTML feature can now export the entire report for alternate distribution methods, and includes the new table of contents. The reports are now customizable, so you can choose the sub-sections to be included in each section; only view the parts you want. The performance of very large reports has been improved by streaming content instead of caching.

Eight separate improvements were made in test case configuration, including dataset generation from pre-built lists of cities and names, regular expression support and scalable think times.

With the release of version 3.4 all of the modules are now Vista-compatible.

The new Advanced Server Analysis module collects and analyzes server metrics to help locate bottlenecks and improve server performance. 23 important metrics are collected on each platform, and the server reports are integrated with the other performance reports. The top six most important parameters are analyzed to make sure their fall within normal parameters, and problem spots are highlighted. (Note: the server monitoring modules are priced separately.)

Web Performance Analyzer™ extensively analyzes your testcase and automatically performs the routine configurations required for most testcases, saving many hours of labor on each testcase. For those testcases that require additional manual configuration, this task has previously required a high level of knowledge of the product and/or help from our support personnel.

For help the user understand the new functionality there is a new tutorial that can help even the novice load-testers understand and configure complex testcases. Many of the new testcase configuration options for this release are addresses specifically in this tutorial.

The ASM wizard uses an extensive set of default rules for finding and configuring client-state variables in web pages for accurate testcase simulation. With the addition of User-defined Field-detection rules, you can provide the ASM wizard with additional rules for locating and configuring these fields. Previously, this required the user to manually configure extractors and modifiers on each instance of a field. By specifying a detection rule, ASM can perform this work automatically, saving many hours of work for each testcase.

Previous versions only allowed configuration of a load test with a fixed duration. A load test may now be configured to end after all testcases have completed a fixed number of iterations.

• License version is checked before upgrading - so the software is not accidentally upgraded to a version that cannot be used.
• Common replay and load test errors generate suggestions on how to fix the problem.
• Comments may be provided when attaching files to an existing support issues using the Support Request wizard.
• Copying a testcase to a different repository automatically copies the datasets used by the testcase.
• Testcase replays may be 'promoted' to the primary testcase so that reports show more recent results.
• Imported client certificates may be deleted from within the GUI.
  
• Files attached to support requests may be made "private".
  
• Customizations made to configuration files are now kept in the workspace - so they are not lost when upgrading to a new version.
  
• The full URL of a transaction may be copied to the clipboard from a pop-up menu item in the editor.
  
• The total number of pages and transactions in a testcase are displayed in the testcase size tooltip in the testcase editor.
  
• Validation creation dialog automatically copies selected text to the 'Constant' field.
  
• Load test report shows the total number of testcases completed (for each testcase).
  
• Load Test initialization progress is updated more granularly - preventing a mis-perception that the process has failed when sending large load tests to engines over slow network connections.
  
• Engine configuration data is optimized and compressed to decrease the engine initialization time.
  
• Several new Load-test optimizations result in lower CPU and memory usage - resulting a greater load-generating capacity on each engine.
  
• Load test reports automatically scale the units on large metrics (such as bytes/sec or bytes transferred) for easier reading.
  
• Time-domain charts place tick marks and labels at more natural locations. For example, 0:30, 1:00, 1:30 instead of 0:21, 0:51, 1:21.

Now you can customize the playback screen by adding real-time display of just the parameters you want to watch, including load times for particular web pages.

Support for complex frameworks that dynamically change the field names to encode state and session information.

Recorded page metrics are even more accurate, especially with large page sizes.

Editor tooltips now show request and response sizes, time to first byte, etc.

The Baseline and Load Test Performance Analysis is now available in report form and available to share via the web or modify in your favorite editor. Now its easy to create a formal report of your load testing efforts.

Multiple web servers can now be monitored for CPU and memory usage.