| New Feature |
Description |
| Instant Load
Engine |
Now
large multi-engine load tests can be run without installing any
software. Just boot from an Engine-on-a-disk using Knoppix-like linux
boot CD-ROM or a USB memory stick, and the load engine will
automatically boot and update itself to the latest version! The Instant Load Engine will automatically configure itself to use up to 2G of RAM, and can
handle multiple-NIC hardware. |
| New .NET Application
Server Monitoring Module |
The
new Advanced Server Analysis™ module for .NET collects and analyzes
.NET application server metrics to help locate bottlenecks and improve
server performance. 23 important metrics are collected, and the server
reports are integrated with the other performance reports. (Note: the
.NET server monitoring module is sold separately.) |
| Major Report
Improvements |
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. Please note you must register for an account with our bug tracker to view the WPL links.
| WPL-477 |
Add
number of users to tables/exports for server metric groups (cpu,
memory, etc) and add tables to individual server metric sections. |
| WPL-455 |
Show page duration min/max durations in report tables and
stats view. |
| WPL-472 |
Add PPD section to analyze by average page duration. |
| WPL-484 |
Add optional report sections for each URL. |
| WPL-473 |
Add error details to errors section in load test report |
| WPL-380 |
Make the value of server performance checklist thresholds
configurable by users. |
|
| Test
Case Configuration Improvements |
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.
| WPA-827 |
Remember dataset fill options |
| WPA-833 |
Dataset generation from lists (first names, last names,
cities, etc.) |
| WPA-839 |
Show think time column (many users don't know its there) |
| WPA-812 |
Regular Expression available for manual extractor and custom
detection rules |
| WPA-834 |
Change title of web page |
| WPA-848 |
Prune quotes when importing dataset |
| WPA-853 |
File download fields named for downloaded resource |
| WPL-320 |
Scalable think times |
|
| Load
Testing and Analysis Improvements |
| WPL-529 |
Calculate bandwidth at test summary level
based on instantaneous I/O rather than completed transactions |
| WPL-455 |
Show min and max page duration in summary metrics (stats view) |
| WPL-583 |
Increase precision of hits/sec to one decimal place.
Calculating as integer can be misleading for small tests. |
| WPL-617 |
Add manual section describing server metrics |
| WPL-517 |
Allow user to restart test case on out-of-data error instead
of halting |
| WPL-451 |
Make collection of URL metrics optional to conserve memory
and disk space |
| WPL-456 |
Document the use of engine configuration settings to override
default user distribution algorithms |
| WPL-580 |
Add Average Resource Pending and Current Page Users metrics |
| WPA-787 |
Add
transaction timeouts with configurable timeout duration |
|
| Vista Improvements |
The
underlying software libraries upon which the software is based,
Eclipse, was upgraded to version 3.3, which brings Vista fixes,
improvement in the text rendering performance, and many cosmetic
improvements. |
| Internationalization |
The
3.5 release is now ready for internationalization, which will take
place in subsequent updates. The first new language to be supported is
French. |
