What’s New in NeoLoad ?

September 2017 Release

What’s New in NeoLoad 6.1?

Accelerate your DevOps and Agile Load Testing processes. NeoLoad Performance Testing give your applications a competive edge. Integrate with popular Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) environments. Release flawlessly, every time. Achieve Speed and Quality without making tradeoffs.

NeoLoad 6.1 is now available. This latest release continues Neotys’ focus on accelerating DevOps team alignment with their internal Agile and DevOps processes for greater testing coverage and application reliability under load. This release includes several new capabilities that enhance DevOps use cases, further enable Component/API Testing, improve Collaboration, plus general capability enhancements.

DevOps Enhancements

NeoLoad Web On-Premises Deployment

NeoLoad Web, introduced in NeoLoad 6.0 as a SaaS deployment, is now available with NeoLoad 6.1 as an on-premises deployment Detailed documentation is provided for a standard (Docker-based) on-premises target.
Contact Neotys with regard to more-complex deployment.

View the Pass/Fail Status of a Test

All tests that are run are assigned an externally-available status showing whether a particular test run was completed successfully or failed, based on defined SLAs.

Define Load Test Environment at Runtime

At runtime, the same NeoLoad project can be used to launch a test in a specific environment (integration, preprod, etc.) without having to modify the project or having several versions of the project for each target environment. This greatly simplifies NeoLoad projects in this context and makes it very easy in a CI/automation scenario to programmatically target a specific environment.

Component/API Testing Enhancements

Generic REST/JSON Support

NeoLoad 6.1 now natively and fully supports JSON, which is used to express requests and responses for popular REST-based APIs. This enhancement makes it easier and more natural to load test REST-based APIs. Native and full JSON support means:

• JSONPath expressions are supported in order to extract or validate data from JSON data in Variable Extractors, Validators and Framework parameters
• JSON pretty printing

Easily Create Requests from External Content

Users can speed up their API testing by creating a new request in NeoLoad, using content that is cut-and-pasted “as-is” from an external source (for example from SoapUI and Postman).

NeoLoad Web Collaboration Enhancements

Multiple Customizable, Shareable Dashboards

This innovative and Neotys-exclusive NeoLoad Web feature allows users to create and use several customized dashboards to organize their work. These dashboards can be shared either for running tests or completed tests, with other users belonging to the same account, and who work as a team on that shared dashboard.

NeoLoad Web Integration Enhancements

REST API Access to Test and Monitoring Data

This NeoLoad Web centralized REST API provides access to test data for a running or terminated test. This data can be pushed to an external tool (for example Elastic Search, Tableau, etc.) or used to make a decision to continue or abort a process in a CI/automation scenario.

Docker Monitoring Using cAdvisor

Using the Generic JSON Monitor capability in NeoLoad 6.1, users can monitor Docker containers by using cAdvisor.

Generic REST/JSON Monitor

This new capability provides easy access to any monitoring element that provides a JSON/REST API. NeoLoad allows the user to choose the specific metrics to be monitored.

Miscellaneous/Other Enhancements

Advanced Actions Option – Consider as a Request

A new option is available for Advanced Actions so that its activity is taken into account in global statistics such as ‘All requests’ (impacting statistic value and graphs). The Advanced Action is also listed in reports and GUI, the same as for HTTP requests.

Scheduled Tests Can Send Data to NeoLoad Web

When scheduling a test, users can decide to send run-time test data to NeoLoad Web.

June 2017 Release

What’s New in NeoLoad 6?

Do the entire test cycle – from test design through analysis and reporting – faster. Monitor tests in real-time when executed from a Continuous Integration (CI) server (e.g. Jenkins) and compare with baseline results. Detect performance problems in real-time during tests, without waiting for the results before taking corrective action to address any issues. Share test results easily using a web-based SaaS interface, to stakeholders who would like to participate in (or just consume) the analysis, but who are not performance testing specialists.

NeoLoad 6.0 is now available. Like all previous releases of NeoLoad, this newest release highlights our commitment to, and progress towards, giving you the fastest, most automated performance testing and monitoring tools for Agile and DevOps testing environments.

Easier collaboration with NeoLoad Web

New Web-based SaaS interface can easily display and share charts and tables with anyone involved in performance test execution or analysis (testers, developers, QA Managers, business stakeholders/ product owners) who need to use and share test results.

All NeoLoad users have a free plan provisioned to use the new NeoLoad Web module as SaaS. So try it right now! Read the documentation to get started.

Additional set of test analysis features available in NeoLoad Web

More-accurate diagnosis and faster reaction time when a test detects a performance issue; no need to wait for the end of a test to react and fix the problem.

• Personalized graphical dashboards allow you to mix several KPIs in the same graph (e.g. average transaction times, average request response time, and total transaction failed)

• Statistics can be shown for each element delivered (e.g. min/max/average) for each individual element by request/ transaction/page, and monitoring counters (e.g. CPU).

To learn more about NeoLoad Web,click here

May 2016

What’s New in NeoLoad 5.2?

The 5.2 release is all about making NeoLoad even faster. Already the fastest solution for designing and executing performance tests, NeoLoad now contains more automation features than ever before.

If all that’s not enough, NeoLoad 5.2 is also the first load testing solution to support HTTP/2 applications!

User Path Update

Everyone testing an application with frequent releases and high code churn knows how time consuming it is to be constantly redesigning test scenarios. Now you can quickly update a designed user path (formerly called VU profiles) with a new recording and automatically keep variable extractors, think times, SLAs, loops, javascript, validations and more from the original user path design!

Simply follow the User Path Update wizard to guide you through matching up the transactions (formerly containers) between the new recording and old recording, check that everything is merging, adding or deleting correctly, and NeoLoad handles the rest. The updated user path is even kept properly configured in your populations — no manual population changes required!

Prefilled Transaction List for Recording

Want to re-record a user path or use a current user path as a template for a new user path? NeoLoad now provides a prefilled list of transactions (including nested transactions) to make the recording process even faster. Pick from current user paths or upload transaction names from a CSV file.

One-click Update of User Paths in NeoSense from NeoLoad

For those using NeoLoad and NeoSense in conjunction for Continuous Performance Validation, updating user paths in NeoSense from a NeoLoad project is now as easy as a single click.

HTTP/2

HTTP/2, the network protocol that is being called “the future of the internet”, is here, and NeoLoad 5.2 is the first load testing tool on the market to support it.

Support for Windows 10 & Microsoft Edge Browser

NeoLoad now officially supports Windows 10 operating system including the ability to record and perform browser simulation for the new Microsoft Edge browser.

C# Client for Data Exchange API

NeoLoad already captures end user experience metrics under load from Java-based functional testing tools. With 5.2, NeoLoad now supports C# tools for gathering end user experience metrics from browsers and devices. This enables integrations with tools like Selenium, Appium, Quamotion, Ranorex, Rapise or any tool with C# scripts.

SQL Load Testing

SQL statements can be executed as Advanced Actions by NeoLoad for the purpose of administrative tasks like database clean-up after a test. And now SQL statements can be executed for load testing the database itself.

New Technologies and Integrations

New Statistics

Elements/s has been added to the Values tab, and Errors/s has been added to graphs.

Graph Enhancements

Statistics now appear in graph legends including Min, Max, Average for all elements as well as “Average 90%” and Percentiles for transactions.

The scale of runtime graphs is now adjustable.

Automatic Redirect Handling

This new setting allows NeoLoad to automatically follow HTTP redirects for when the number of chained redirections in a recording is variable.

Refactored Components

The HTTP recorder has been improved to better handle complex applications. The HTTP engine has been refactored to create a single engine for HTTP/S 1.1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets.

Load Generator Enhancements

You can now specify custom ports for load generators. Neotys Cloud LGs now use the default HTTP/S port (443).

All load generators now communicate over HTTP instead of the previous proprietary protocol.

Neotys Cloud LGs now automatically reconnect when connection is lost during a load test.

Collaboration Performance Enhancements

Check in and check out times of NeoLoad projects in the Neotys Team Server and other SVN collaboration servers have been significantly reduced.

Docker Images for Load Generators

For all of you who love containerizing everything, NeoLoad load generators are now available as Docker images.

December 2016

What’s New in NeoLoad 5.3?

NeoLoad 5.3 builds on the Neotys’ dedication to deliver the fastest, most automated performance testing tool for Agile and DevOps organizations. In addition, NeoLoad 5.3 delivers support for IoT testing and expands technology support for advanced use cases.

Automated Script Maintenance with Selenium Scripts

Building on the automated user path update introduced in NeoLoad 5.2, NeoLoad 5.3 provides the ability to automatically update user path and create new user paths using Selenium scripts through the NeoLoad Design API. This means that teams using Selenium for functional testing no longer have to manually update NeoLoad user paths. The user path update feature in NeoLoad 5.2 provided customers with a 75-90% reduction in script maintenance time; this capability will get that number much closer to 100%. Agile teams, DevOps organizations, and anyone looking to automate their testing process can be more efficient than ever.

Selenium Java is supported, C# support coming soon.

Read the documentation to get started.

Enhanced API Testing

NeoLoad can now create REST API requests outside of pages. This provides better visibility of REST requests in the NeoLoad user path which makes API and microservices testing with NeoLoad even easier.

IoT Protocol Support – MQTT

Internet of Things performance testing is on the rise, and NeoLoad now supports the MQTT protocol for IoT load tests. This NeoLoad advanced action makes it easier than ever to performance test connected cars, planes, air conditioners, refrigerators, and any other machines using the MQTT protocol.

New Cloud Provider & Locations

The Neotys Cloud Platform is now up to 7 cloud providers with the latest addition of Outscale as a provider with load generators available from their data center in New Jersey. Additionally, a new cloud zone from AWS is now available in Columbus, Ohio.

Public Amazon Image for VUH Controller

The NeoLoad VUH controller is now available as an Amazon image directly from the console that starts the machine.

Febuary 2017

What’s New in NeoLoad 5.4 ?

NeoLoad 5.4 builds on the Neotys’ dedication to deliver the fastest, most automated performance testing tool for Agile teams and DevOps organizations. This 5.4 version provides significant enhancements to automate test maintenance and to integrate more closely load testing into an automated and continuous integration process.

100% Automated Script Maintenance with Selenium Scripts. Now Available With Selenium C#

NeoLoad is more open than ever before: new Result API to Automatically Generate Load Test Reports

Share NeoLoad Advanced Actions

April 2017

What’s New in NeoLoad 5.5 ?

TEAMCITY PLUGIN

The TeamCity plugin provides out of the box integration with this leading CI server. The plugin enables NeoLoad users to:

The TeamCity plugin comes in addition to the existing Jenkins and Bamboo plugins. For more information on NeoLoad integration with other CI servers, click here.

NeoLoad provides various logical actions to let you design and maintain tests faster without coding. For more information on NeoLoad logical actions, click here