- FLEX Performance, Load and Stress Testing



Adobe® FLEX®

Adobe® Flex® is a development solution by Adobe Systems for creating and deploying cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Using this technology, applications can be developed that are more ergonomic and intuitive for their users. Flex-based business applications can manage large volumes of data exchanges and enable the integration of sound, video and other formats.

NeoLoad FLEX/AMF/AIR Support

NeoLoad supports Adobe Flex 3 and the AMF (Action Messaging Format) protocol versions AMF0 and AMF3. The AMF protocol allows data to be transferred in binary format, thereby improving performance.
Load testing tools cannot replay these messages without special processing, as they contain dynamic data that needs to be reassembled.

NeoLoad fully supports the AMF3 protocol:

• sending externalizable objects can be done in NeoLoad by adding the Java classes describing the objects;
• the Flex Messaging Service, which uses polling or streaming requests (with no regular polling) to push data, is supported;
• Flash Remoting objects contained in the Flex messages appear in XML format in NeoLoad. This means that all the usual functions can be used: recording, editing, using variables, validating responses and injecting.
• AMFX, an XML serialized format of the AMF protocol, is supported;
  

NeoLoad is compatible with Cairngorm, a framework commonly used in Flex, as well as with LiveCycle Data Services ES and Flex Data Services.

Adobe® AIR® (Adobe Integrated Runtime) allows to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. NeoLoad can record a user scenario from an AIR application and simulate the load on the server.

Using NeoLoad's Flex module, you will be able to create test scenarios, load test your Flex web applications and validate their performances, and detect any weak points. Load testing your Flex applications prior to deployment will allow you launch the production phase with total confidence.

Test this optional module now in the free trial version of NeoLoad.

NeoLoad FLEX/AMF Architecture

There are the schemas of NeoLoad architecture:

• during the scenario record:
  


• during the load test execution:
  

Demonstration

 

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