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| What’s New in WebLOAD Professional Version 8.2 |
Version 8.2 introduces new Add-ons, enhancements to the authoring environment and the management console and a new Software Development Kit (SDK).
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| New WebLOAD Professional Flex Add-On |
WebLOAD Professional 8.2 includes a new add-on, which supports the Adobe Flex Rich Internet Applications development environment, over the basic Internet protocols that are supported with WebLOAD Professional.
The Add-on provides full support of the load-testing lifecycle for Adobe Flex 2.0 and above: the recording of Flex applications using the AMF 0 / 3 protocol, debugging, parameterzing of the Agenda and the addition of verifications for application accuracy, the execution of load sessions using the recorded Agendas against the Flex application while collecting Flex server-side performance statistics, analyzes test results, and publishes performance reports.
Authoring and executing Adobe Flex Agendas is as simple and straightforward as authoring and executing regular Internet protocol Agendas.
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| Additional New Protocol - LDAP |
WebLOAD Professional 8.2 introduces support for the LDAP protocol, enabling the creation of Agendas to load-test applications using this protocol. Support for this protocol includes adding new Building Blocks to the WebLOAD IDE Toolbox in the IPP group, and adding the protocol lower-level APIs to the WebLOAD JavaScript extensions.
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| WebLOAD IDE Enhancements |
1. New Automatic Correlation Engine
The problem of correlating dynamic data sent from web applications has always been a challenge for performance testers using protocol-level recording. WebLOAD 8.2 introduces a new, rule-based correlation engine, which will automatically correlate dynamic parameters – such as session ID – in your script right after recording it. Correlation rules first have to be defined using the IDE’s Correlation Rules Editor. Once the rules are defined properly, the correlation process can be automatically invoked right after the recording, or manually, any time during script editing. The correlation engine will replace dynamic data with JavaScript variables, and will add user friendly comments to your script, letting you know exactly what was changed. Please refer to the WebLOAD IDE User’s Guide for more information.
2. Edit the Agenda during recording
You can now edit your Agenda while you record it by using the Toolbox and dragging Building Blocks into the Agenda Tree. In this manner you can add comments, transactions and many other commands to the script, without waiting for its recording to finish.
3. Script Re-generation
There is no need to record your script all over again if all you need is to add or remove HTTP-related properties. With the new Script Regeneration command, you can change any the settings of the Recording and Script Generation options , under the Script Generation tab. By clicking Regenerate Script, the Agenda script will be regenerated, based on the recorded HTTP traffic and the new settings. Please notice that manually inserted Agenda nodes will be kept, but manual changes to recorded nodes will be lost. Please refer to the WebLOAD IDE User’s Guide for more information.
4. HTML View Enhancements
HTML view is now available also during recording and in edit mode. This makes editing the script for verification and correlation much easier and straightforward – there is no need to run the script in order to see this information.
5. New Building Blocks
New Building Blocks enable easier verification for application behavior under load:
Web Service verification – 2 Building Blocks were added to the Verification group of the toolbox. These Building Blocks help the user search for a specific element in the XML that is returned from a Web Service:
- WS Single - verify the value of the first element returned by the Web Service.
- WS Multiple - verify the value of each of the elements returned by Web Service.
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| WebLOAD Console Enhancements |
1. Server Side Monitoring
The list of available data sources under the Performance Measurement Manager (PMM) was extended to support also Apache 2.0 web-server using SNMP.
2. Transactions Dashboard View
A List of all the session’s transactions with additional statistics on each of them (count, minimum, maximum and average times), is available in the Transactions Dashboard that can be opened from the Reports menu.
3. New measurement – Content Size
Support the Content Size measurement (type of measurement = counter), correlated with the URL that contained the object whose size it measures (mostly images, but not only)
4. Enhanced collection of Transaction Statistics
Data Drilling for transaction statistics can be enabled now also for successful transactions, and not only for failed ones. Refer to the WebLOAD Console User’s Guide for more information.
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| HTTP Protocol Enhancements |
1. Enhanced DOM support
WebLOAD’s HTML DOM (Document Object Model), that can be used while scripting Agendas using JavaScript for parameterization, correlation and verification, has been extended to support the following new methods: GetElementById, GetElementsById, GetElementByName, GetElementsByName, GetElementValueById and GetElementValueByName.
2. New wlGlobals/wlHTTP flags
Support of the following new flags both at the Agenda level (wlGlobals) and at the HTTP level (wlHTTP):
- EncodeResponseBinaryData – When set to true, the response will be encoded when the user will access document.wlSource
- KeepRedirectionHeaders – Set this flag to True in order to get the location headers of all redirections. After navigation, the value can be extracted from document.wlHeaders.
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