- Flex Performance, Load and Stress Testing

You use Flex!

Flex®, Adobe®'s development solution for rich Internet applications (RIA's), is an open source framework for creating highly interactive and intuitive applications that deploy in an identical manner on most browsers, workstations and operating systems. To communicate between the client workstation and the server, Flex relies on a protocol called AMF (Action script Messaging Format).

But can you test Flex?

In its most recent version (Flex3), which provides even more options, Flex uses version 3 of the AMF protocol. This latest version is radically different to the previous version (AMF0).

Your load testing software's compliance with the latest version 3 of this protocol is a prerequisite for carrying out your performance tests. Without a complete and coherent AMF v0 and v3 support, you will not be able to carry out exhaustive testing, which could result in the deployment of an application whose behavior has not been validated under load.

NeoLoad is ready!

Use Flex with total peace of mind … NeoLoad is ready!

Use Flex and AIR's capacities to the full to create portable and user friendly applications ! Being an Adobe Solution Partner, there's no need to worry - with NeoLoad you'll be able to test all your applications even the most advanced ones. Find out more technical details here.

« Make sure it works ! »

Thanks to NeoLoad, you can create scenarios to test your Flex applications' behavior under stress and validate their performances, while pinpointing any weaknesses.

Load testing your applications with NeoLoad means you can enter the production phase with peace of mind and at a reasonable cost.

Furthermore, NeoLoad allows you to monitor LiveCycle Data Services ES (LCDS) application services during load tests, resulting in a speedier diagnosis of performance slowdowns.

Start right now by :

Viewing the Flex demo. (9 minutes)
Viewing a load test of an LCDS application with NeoLoad. (17 minutes)
Viewing a load test of an LiveCycle Workspace application with NeoLoad. (8 minutes)
Downloading the trial version of NeoLoad.
Contacting us for further information.

Testing Services

Neotys Consultants: experts in Adobe Flex load testing

All our consultants here at Neotys are experts in the field of load testing, optimizing Flex or AIR applications, and configuring the infrastructure servers (LCDS, BlazeDS, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, PHP, .NET,etc.).

We offer a wide range of services from training to performance testing and auditing. We can even complete full infrastructure optimization with your team.

Contact us for further information.

Customer testimonials

Spectum K12

Based in Towson, MD, Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc. is the leading provider of Response to Intervention (RTI) and special education IEP software serving 11% of the U.S. K-12 student population including 20 of the top 100 school districts in the United States.

« We looked at a number of open source projects, and closed source products. None of them could match the simplicity and integrated experience that we saw with NeoLoad. The cost for NeoLoad also came in below some of the _supposedly_ more feature rich products out there. NeoLoad is by far the best combination of ease of use, functionality and price for load testing Adobe Flex applications on the market today.»

Read the complete success story.

Passenger

Passenger is an interactive online application that enables brands to connect with customers in an engaging, personalized environment to build knowledge and advocacy.

« The ease with which the flex UI could be automated for performance testing, the good monitoring tools provided and the cost were the important factors playing in favour of NeoLoad.»

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thinkorswim

On-Line Retail and Institutional Brokerage firm offering a wide range of trading services and access in the Equities, Options, Futures, Forex, Funds.

« We chose NeoLoad as the winner based on its reasonable price/capability ratio, as well as relative ease of setup. We also benefit in the ease of use, which makes it approachable even by staff who are not primarily in the QA/Engineering disciplines.»

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Martin Dawes Systems

Martin Dawes Systems is a leading provider of customer management systems for the communications industry.

« We found that NeoLoad's user interface by far surpassed all of it’s mid to high range competitors. We found the tool intuitive and very stable. It appeared to be a mature product in terms of its Flex/Amf handling in comparison to its rivals.»

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Raiffeisen

Raiffeisen Bank Polska S.A. is a part of Raiffeisen International Group and as a bank it offers financial services for individual, small business and institutional customers.

« Thanks to NeoLoad, load testing of Flex applications become much easier than before. Parameterization of Flex request in NeoLoad is fast and intuitive so we were able to reduce time spending on scripting.»

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LBi

LBi is an international full service digital marketing agency that provides breadth of capability, ranging from high-level strategy to heavyweight technology implementation and award-winning media. LBi employs over 1,600 professionals located primarily in the major European and American business centers.

« Compared to our current tool I would rate NeoLoad much more highly and it also compares very favourable to the higher end commercial tools. Once I started using the tool I found it very easy to pick up and it wasn’t long at all before I had the ability to do most things required to write (and then run) usable and complex loadtest scripts»

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Demos

NeoLoad Feature Tour

A short animation demonstrating a load test for an e-commerce application. The demo will give you a glimpse of NeoLoad's main features.

NeoLoad Flex demo

A short animation demonstrating a load test for Flex applications using the AMF protocol and a 2nd one about a fully LCDS based application load test.

NeoLoad Flex demo (9 minutes)
Viewing a load test of an LCDS application with NeoLoad. (17 minutes)
Viewing a load test of an LiveCycle Workspace application with NeoLoad. (8 minutes)

Try it yourself right now!

Download the trial version of NeoLoad.
Contact us for further information.

Monitoring

To pinpoint a performance problem, system information needs to be collected from your servers during the test. NeoLoad's dedicated platform and server monitoring modules are designed to carry out this monitoring remotely.

The design of our LiveCycle Data Services monitoring module, based on industry standards like all our modules, obviates the installation of third-party software on the servers to be monitored. Furthermore, the monitor is shipped preconfigured to simplify the retrieval of the relevant data from your LCDS application services.

Discover the LiveCycle Data Services ES Monitor.
Downloading the trial version of NeoLoad.
Browse our full monitoring modules.

Technical details

NeoLoad brings you support of:

• Flex 3 for Web and AIR applications on user desktop,
• The AMF protocol (Action script Messaging Format) in version 0 and 3,
• Flex Messaging Service, allowing data push by polling, long-polling or streaming requests through HTTP,
• Externalized object transport,
• Flash Remoting objects content in Flex messages,
• AMFX, the AMF serialized XML format,
• Cairngorm Framework,
• Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES and Flex Data Services application services,
• BlazeDS and Granite Data Services services.

Furthermore, NeoLoad allows you to monitor LiveCycle Data Services ES (LCDS) application services during load tests, resulting in a speedier diagnosis of performance slowdowns.

The following diagrams show NeoLoad's architecture:

• during the recording of the scenario:
  
• during the load test run:
  

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