Load Tester™ New Features
New in 3.6 Release
Web Performance Load Tester version 3.6 includes a number of new features that make it even easier to use and more intuitive for its non-programmer user base. One of the application's most appealing new features is its use of visual displays and video demonstrations that let users with zero programming experience create test cases, run load tests and analyze the results.
The new Click-to-Configure feature lets users configure dynamic text entry fields simply by importing a list of established values. New Performance Goal Analysis instantly pinpoints the exact system location causing performance problems, while its User Capacity Analysis lets users know exactly how many visitors a site can handle given its current system architecture. Read the full press release.
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| Click to Configure | Configuring
dynamic values for text entry fields is now as easy as importing a list of values and clicking on the
field. You no longer need to figure out what the programmer called the field or what transaction it appears in...just click and configure. |
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| Performance Goals | All-new performance goal analysis quickly show where the system is failing to meet your performance criteria for response time and failure rate. Duration goals can be set globally or easily customized for individual pages and transactions. A system-wide assessment of goal compliance is now provided in the new Performance Goals section. At each user level the failed pages are listed, putting you one click away from the detailed analysis of the page. |
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| User Capacity Analysis | For years, only Load Tester has offered an analysis sophisticated enough to answer the most important question: "How many users can your site handle?" In combination with the new User-Level Analysis and Performance Goal features, the best analysis is even better - offering the most accurate automatic assessment of your web site. In addition, the analysis now allows more configuration options - providing the flexibility to handle complex performance requirements. | |||||
| Expanded Application Compatibility | Load Tester is now compatible with even more web applications! Improved .NET and viewstate support in Load Tester 3.6 increases compatibility with AJAX .NET applications. Page-refresh loops and fixed-count loops are now easily configured. Better XML/HTML entity encoding detection and configuration allows Load Tester to work with more applications with little or no customization. | |||||
| User-Level Analysis | Do you need to know how many pages/sec your site can handle at 150 users? Load Tester now answers that question instantly without the need to manually summarize data or fine-tune the test parameters. All of the test, page and transaction metrics are summarized by user-level and depicted clearly in both charts and tables in the Load Test Report. Naturally, the time-based analysis is still available - you can choose to see either one or both in the report. The load levels for analysis will be automatically selected based on the load configuration, but can be easily customized to provide exactly the data you need. | |||||
| Waiting Users Analysis | Two unique new metrics can tell you when your application is reaching capacity before the pages fail their performance goals and help diagnose erratic server behavior. Originally implemented by one of our developers for in-house use to help spot elusive performance problems, the Waiting Users and Average Wait Time metrics proved so useful, we couldn't keep them to ourselves. In a well-behaved system, they are not needed; but when a server becomes sporadically unresponsive, these metrics can be an invaluable aid to determining where and when the users are waiting for server responses. | |||||
| New Test case Customization Tools | Customizing complex test cases can occasionally be time-consuming, even when Load
Tester's ASM wizard does most of the work for you. Finding field values
and assignments in the Content view is now easier with the addition of
the find-in-content feature: you can instantly locate content in
large, complex pages. The find-in-content feature is complemented by a test case-wide find capability in the new Search view. The text of transactions, pages or entire test cases can now be instantly searched. Searches can be narrowed down to specific transaction parts, such as headers, URL's or fields. In addition, you can now instantly see the differences between the page content originally recorded in the test case and the content returned from the server during replays or load test. Quick identification of the differences will cut valuable time from the diagnosis and customization of complex test cases. |
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| Report Improvements |
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| New Load Test Metrics | New metrics provide more information to help you diagnose performance problems:
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| Context-Sensitive Help | All major GUI
components have help available Context-help window is moved next to the editors - making it easier to find help when you need it. |
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| Usability Improvements |
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