NeoLoad Changelog

What's new in NeoLoad 7.11.1

Oct 7, 2021

Features:
Test over the license limit with VUH.
Direct project export to NeoLoad Web.
SAP GUI for NeoLoad x64.
Tricentis TOSCA integration – Tosca can send end user experience metrics to NeoLoad.
Tricentis TOSCA integration – Compatibility with Tosca 14.3.
Tricentis qTest integration – Internal defects creation on breached SLAs.
Dynatrace integration – Dynamic monitoring.
Dynatrace integration – Handling of self-signed SSL certificates.
Fixes:
[LOAD-24795] – Cookies with already expired date were kept forever.
[LOAD-24783] – SQL variable problem: the server time zone value ‘CEST’ was unrecognized.
[LOAD-24759] – As-code: Test results could not be transferred to qTest when special configuration was set.
[LOAD-24708] – Custom load policy could be inaccurate.
[LOAD-24672] – Export to NeoLoad Web zip wrongly included recorded content for collaboration projects.
[LOAD-24651] – Git over HTTP(S) was not working when used in combination with an authenticated proxy.
[LOAD-24643] – Authenticated proxy to license server was not working since Java 11.
[LOAD-24609] – LG agent would not restart after a smart upgrade from NL 7.10.0 to NL 7.10.1.
[LOAD-24506] – Recording was blocked when server response had Keep-Alive but no Content-Length.
[LOAD-24385] – General settings API keys were not taken into account when using Data Exchange API.
[LOAD-23594] – Exiting from unsaved state the NLW preferences panel would not save current Workspace.

New in NeoLoad 7.11.0 (Sep 7, 2021)

New in NeoLoad 7.10.0 (Jun 16, 2021)

Tricentis qTest Native Integration:
NeoLoad and qTest now have native integration which delivers customers the ability to manage their entire test suite from one view. Users can now view performance tests results and status within qTest Manager, allowing all stakeholders using qTest to manage performance tests and release KPIs side-by-side with functional test management.
Performance test results, SLAs statuses, and reports of automated performance regression tests from a CI pipeline or from manual large end-to-end release integration tests will appear in qTest projects alongside functional test suites.
You’ll now be able to navigate between qTest and NeoLoad Test Results easily for analysis where your management statistics will now encompass performance tests.
Dashboard Notifications:
When users are modifying the same dashboard concurrently, NeoLoad sends a notification to those users that an update is necessary. Also, the Dashboards view now shows the user name and time stamp of who last edited it and when.
CSV Export:
You can export the content of the table displayed in the values tab to a CSV file.
Tosca Integration Update:
NeoLoad’s Tosca integration is now compatible with Tosca version 14.2. When reusing SAP GUI functional tests from Tosca as performance tests in NeoLoad, the integration can now automatically create a NeoLoad transaction for each Tosca test case, making both design and analysis easier in NeoLoad.
New Citrix Licensing:
Citrix licensing in NeoLoad has changed. Now licenses to test Citrix are included in the web VU licenses and Citrix specific licenses are no longer required and will not work for Citrix-virtualized application testing. NeoLoad 7.10 requires the installation of a new license key to test Citrix, one has been generated in your customer area. Simply use Web VUs to test Citrix with this new key.
Enhancements:
Personal Access Token for Git authentication:
GitHub is modifying its security policies and will disallow the use of “password” for authenticating with its API. NeoLoad Web now supports Personal Access Token.
Encoding for Framework Parameters:
Variables Extractors could already handle the extraction of values which are HTML, URL or custom encoded. Now Framework Parameters can also handle this encoding setting.
Java 11:
NeoLoad is now based on Java 11. It means that your custom Advanced Actions or Java libraries now may rely on Java 11 features.
Hidden Access Tokens :
Access tokens are now hidden by default in the profile section of NeoLoad Web and in the preferences panel of NeoLoad. This improves confidentiality during screensharing sessions.
Easily retrieve user’s workspaces:
User settings now allow admin to easily view the workspace list a user belongs to.
View reservation author:
The reservation tooltip in NeoLoad Web now displays the user name who created the reservation.

New in NeoLoad 7.9.0 (Apr 28, 2021)

Automatic License Leasing at Runtime:
We have streamlined the runtime experience when using Neoload Web as your licence server.
With the auto-lease option activated, you won’t have to manually lease from your licence to run tests — Neoload will manage the lease/release process for you.
If you have multiple licenses, you can easily toggle the option to lease from your license manually as you do today, to remain compatible with your current workflows.
Real-time Reporting Collaboration:
Sharing a dashboard through a URL
In addition to the recent export-as-PDF feature, you can now share your dashboard with colleagues, stakeholders and clients through a URL to ensure that everyone always has the most up-to-date report.
List of Dashboards:
In addition to the update to our dashboard reporting, now you can now access, sort and filter your entire collection of dashboards from a single page.
Dynatrace Integration Enhancements:
The Dynatrace integration has been enhanced with numerous targeted updates for improved user experience of first time configurations and usage.
See improvements for the initial integration setup on the screenshot below, including:
Proxy management to access a specific Dynatrace instance
Token obfuscation and encrypted storage for enhanced security
Client side validation of API token rights/scope issue detection during connection test
Tag coverage verification during configuration
The tag validator helps you verify that your tag combination matches the desired number of Dynatrace entities you want to monitor for your scenario, helping you avoid configuration issues.
Python CLI Improvements:
Now you can easily export test results data in structured format (.csv, JSON, simple HTML) directly from the Python CLI, allowing you to simplify interfacing with other systems or specific data processing in your pipelines.
Simple export of transaction related data into csv format in the CLI
See the dedicated section in the online documentation for more information.
Other Enhancements:
Configuration-free controller to easily connect a controller to NeoLoad Web
Enhancements to the Microsoft dynamic monitors:
You can now re-edit the regular expressions for your instances.
We added a specific icon for dynamic monitors using regular expressions to easily recognize them.
Percentiles are now updated at runtime on NeoLoad Web

New in NeoLoad 7.8.0 (Feb 5, 2021)

New in NeoLoad 7.7.0 (Dec 4, 2020)

Dashboards Preconfigured Reports:
Standard reports are now available from the NeoLoad dashboard. You can access the standard, or “canned”, reports directly from the test overview or from the dashboards section. Once generated, the standard report can be customized.
Export Graphs as CSV:
Export a data table into a CSV formatted file.
Single Sign-on (SSO):
NeoLoad SaaS login is now configurable to use Single Sign-on (SAML). The neotys.com login is also SSO enabled to access Neotys portal (Neotys Academy, Neotys Labs, etc.). If you are on a SaaS Enterprise plan, contact support to get set up.
Prometheus Monitor:
Neoload can now natively connect to your Prometheus monitoring system and get all the relevant metrics you need for your performance analysis.
Create real time visibility into multiple Prometheus requests in the Neoload Prometheus Monitor.
Structure the values of your metrics with labels and legends to customize how you analyze the application.
Redefine existing Prometheus monitors with as-code variables to achieve a high-degree of automation.
The promQL requests are resolved during the initialization phase of the run to define the counters list.
Manage Instances for Microsoft-family Monitors
To avoid reconfigurations between test runs, you can now specify instances with matching regular expressions instead of picking them in the instances list. This is particularly useful with instances that change names between runs and that answer to a naming pattern in dynamic environments (.e.g. Hyper-V Network Adapters, IIS process names etc.).
The regular expressions are resolved during the initialization phase of the run to define the counters list.
Dynamic Infrastructure Improvements:
Test providers’ settings from the settings panel.
Cluster Logs:
Cluster events now appear in the logs.
Labels:
Customize labels for the orchestrator of your choice: this allows for integration with all your enterprise systems that use labels as criteria, such as self-service or billing systems.
Python CLI: Bamboo CI integration examples
Find ready-to-use examples of Bamboo CI configurations amongst the growing library of pre-configured Neoload Python CLI examples (Azure DevOps, Gitlab, AWS CodePipeline…).
Use Bamboo as-code V1 and V2 scripts to connect to your Neoload platform, run your tests and automatically decide to pass/fail your CI pipeline according to your SLAs.
Other Enhancements:
[API]: SCIM-compatible Delete user endpoint: SaaS account admins and on-prem admins are now able to programmatically remove all roles or delete a user from their Neotys user base through an API endpoint. The endpoint is SCIM compatible, making it possible to integrate it into an Identity Management system if needed. Configurations using Neoload LDAP connector can not use this mechanism as the user provisioning is managed by the LDAP directory.
[Controller] Case insensitive flags – When designing a test, an option allows you to flag requests based on a case insensitive search.
[Controller] Automatic login to the Cloud Platform – As long as the Controller is configured to connect to NeoLoad Web SaaS then the authentication token will be used to connect to the Cloud Platform instead of requesting a login/password. Login and Password are still required when the Controller is connected to an on-premise NeoLoad Web.
Java 11 Support (preview) – A technical preview of the Controller and Load Generators are available if your Java code or libraries used by NeoLoad needs Java 11. Contact the support to request access to the preview.
[API]: Get all workspaces: Admin now get a list of all workspaces, whether they are a member of it or not.
SaaS Account Identifier – The SaaS Account Identifier is now displayed next to the account name in the user’s profile page.

New in NeoLoad 7.6.0 (Oct 2, 2020)

Dashboard Improvements:
New analysis capabilities:
Dashboards now include tables and text-editable comment fields to organize analysis. These new analysis capabilities come in addition to previously released line graphs.
Download graphs as PNG:
When analysing your test results through dashboards you can share a specific graph by downloading it as a PNG file.
API Improvements:
Export raw data:
Extract raw data from Neoload Web through the Rest API.
See GetTestRawResult and GetTestRawResultElement.
Custom events:
When synchronizing test scenarios with external processes (monitoring, chaos) you can declare external events that will appear in Neoload Web test results values.
CRUD-based Workspace management:
Programmatically manage (create, update, delete) your workspaces and their settings like quotas and members.
JavaScript API to stop a test:
Use the JavaScript API to stop a test in the event where a virtual user experiences an issue during a test.
See RuntimeContext.stopTest()
As-Code Improvements:
Assertions:
Use as-code based tests to validate server response to ensure that the test is running as expected.
See assert_content on a request.
Advanced setting for a scenario:
Define advanced settings for an as-code scenario like monitoring options, rendezvous policies, excluded URLs, or APM configuration.
Custom Load Policy:
You can define an as-code Custom Load Policy.
Search on Tests:
Search test results by their test name in the advanced search window or in the test result picker on the Dashboard.
There’s also a shortcut to retrieve the test results related to a test.
Other Enhancements:
Support of client certificate for Websocket
[Dynatrace native integration] Several fixes for large scale use cases
[Silverlight] Ability to disable base64 encoding in case it contains clear text needed for correlation
[Citrix] TextGet action inserted by Citrix capture helper contains the recorded response
Compare response content with recorded content for custom actions in the Check Virtual User dialog.
Testers, not only Admins, can see the roles of members of the Workspace.

New in NeoLoad 7.5.0 (Aug 5, 2020)

Overview:
NeoLoad now introduces a new capability called Workspaces. Workspaces allow administrators to group users into teams and assign quotas for virtual users (see more below in the license quota section). Workspaces enable teams to organize and collaborate on their performance testing tasks, assets and results.
Workspaces enable people to separate assets such as tests, test results and webhooks in a designated Workspace and associated team members or share assets among multiple Workspaces and teams.
Users may belong to several workspaces but will only see the contents of one Workspace at a time.
When running tests from NeoLoad Web, the Zone’s hosting Controllers and Load Generators are shared between all Workspaces to optimize resource usage. You may use the Reservation feature to control the access to these shared resources and guarantee that they are available for important planned tests.
Quotas on Licensed Virtual Users:
Administrators can define for each Workspace a quota to limit the maximum number of Virtual Users of the license that all members of the workspace can use.
The quota is checked for tests run by NeoLoad Web as well as for independent Controllers that use NeoLoad Web as their license server.
Reorganized Settings:
The Settings panels have been reorganized so that all settings at Account level are in a single location (for Admin only) and the settings related to a Workspace are grouped together.
New API
The NeoLoad Web API version 3 handles Workspaces. Previous versions of the API support lists of assets and creation of assets in the default Workspace.
Tosca Integration v2.2:
NeoLoad’s integration with Tosca already supports the conversion of any Tosca web test, including SAP web tests, and Tosca SAP GUI tests. The NeoLoad-Tosca integration now supports a new Tosca test type, API testing. And, the integration is also now compatible with the latest Tosca release, Tosca 13.3
Other Enhancements
Minor GUI enhancements when defining the variables to be exported with the raw data.
MySQL driver upgraded to the latest version

New in NeoLoad 7.4.0 (Jun 1, 2020)

New in NeoLoad 7.2.0 (Jan 28, 2020)

New in NeoLoad 7.1.0 (Nov 26, 2019)

NeoLoad 7.1 marks NeoLoad’s beta support of Citrix performance testing capability, new continuous integration extensions to Azure DevOps, GitLab and AWS CodeBuild and updates to test management and transaction data. Tests setting can now be saved in NeoLoad web, shared and reused. Tests can also be scheduled to be run during off-hours. Test reports and dashboards now display the 50th, 90th, 95th and 99th percentiles metrics for transactions.
Citrix Support:
NeoLoad now can record and replay Citrix deployed applications. The set of Citrix actions is compact and consistent for a better readability and easier to maintain scripts. Design faster with a live detection of texts and get a more reliable text recognition at runtime with modern and configurable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine based on Neural Networks.
Citrix support is currently being released as a Beta. Please ask your Neotys contact or contact us here to get a trial license key.
NeoLoad Web Tests
The test settings for launching a test from NeoLoad Web are now saved as ‘Tests’ which can be shared with and reused by teammates.
Scheduled Tests for Reservations"
Schedule your tests to leverage your test infrastructure during off-business hours.
NeoLoad Web Reservations can now automatically start a test when the reservation starts.
Percentiles in NeoLoad Web Results:
NeoLoad Web test results now provide the 50th, 90th, 95th and 99th percentiles for transactions. These metrics are available through NeoLoad Web’s public REST API. Dashboards also provide a percentile graph on transactions.
Cloud CI Integration (GitLab, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps):
Integrate NeoLoad load tests in Docker friendly Continuous Integration pipelines such as GitLab, AWS CodeBuild and Azure DevOps. Neotys provides a Docker image that easily uploads a project to NeoLoad Web and triggers its execution from environment variables. Examples are provided with the documentation.
Functions:
Speed up design time and increase design readability by using function calls rather than variables, and skip the extra steps of inserting JavaScript actions for simple functions calls.
Wherever you can use a variable (ex: ${myVariable}) when designing a User Path, you can now use a Function with the following syntax: ${__myFunction(arg1,arg2)}.
NeoLoad provides a number of predefined functions for new projects as well as allowing you to define your own.
Summary Panel for a Scenario:
When using several Populations for your tests, use the new summary panel to quickly check that your populations are properly and consistently configured, notably just before running a test. It also enables you to check the total number of Load Generators used and the total number of Virtual Users that will be generated.
Project Format for Externally Managed Version Control Systems:
NeoLoad native integrations with SVN and GIT make it easy to use a Version Control System to version and collaborate on NeoLoad projects. For advanced usage and when the NeoLoad integration cannot be used, NeoLoad projects can now be saved in a multi-XML files format so that it’s easier to use your preferred VCS tools and commands independently of NeoLoad.
Other Enhancements:
Search & Replace now work on Advanced Actions, SAP GUI and Citrix Actions.
Bulk delete and duplicate of Populations.
ECMA 6 support by the NeoLoad Javascript engine.
Copy/Paste of screenshots on Pages, SAP GUI and Citrix Actions.

New in NeoLoad 6.10 (May 15, 2019)

What’s New in NeoLoad 6.10?:
The NeoLoad 6.10 release updates and enhances many of our recently added features to automate API and end-to-end application performance testing. The main enhancements include updates to the Test as Code capabilities, GIT support, APM integration, and more.
Test as Code:
Prior NeoLoad releases offer the ability to automate API tests within CI pipelines or run ad hoc API smoke tests to see if recent code modifications degraded performance. Previously test as code functionality was available through NeoLoad or the NeoLoad open API. Now, NeoLoad offers the option to create, run and manage performance tests as code via a standalone YAML file, as multiple semantic files and execute tests as code via command line, the NeoLoad API or the NeoLoad user interface.
Test as Code: as Standalone YAML:
Design and run tests in YAML as standalone code without dependency on a NeoLoad project, similar to a unit or non-regression tests. Execute tests as code in YAML through command line, the NeoLoad API or within the NeoLoad user interface.
Test as Code: as One or Many YAMLs:
Concentrate tests as code in one unique file or split the logic into several, smaller, semantically consistent files (Scenarios, Variables, UserPaths, etc.) and reference them using includes. Includes promote test code reuse and sharing and ease switching between target environments.
Test as Code: More Expressions:
Test as Code now supports control structures (IF, THEN, ELSE), inline JavaScript and new variable types (random number and counter).
Improved GIT Integration:
Run a performance test based on a project retrieved from GIT – whether the test asset is a Neoload project, a pure YAML file, or a hybrid version. Teams can collaborate, share and manage all test assets in through their existing GIT version control system.
APM Integration:
NeoLoad’s open API now offers the ability to retrieve a list of events and event endpoints (errors, failed SLAs, and failed monitoring thresholds) and to push them into third-party tools, like APMs. Testers can use API events to correlate performance and APM data to get more intelligent insights.
Other Enhancements:
Enhanced Proxies – Define and set proxies through the command line for both the NeoLoad Controller and Load Generators to ease continuous integration and Docker deployments.
Improved Security – NeoLoad now has stronger encryption between its Controller and Monitoring Agent.

New in NeoLoad 6.9 (Mar 13, 2019)

New in NeoLoad 6.8.0 (Jan 8, 2019)

New in NeoLoad 6.6.0 (Sep 5, 2018)

New in NeoLoad 6.5 (Jul 16, 2018)

New in NeoLoad 6.4 (Jul 16, 2018)

New in NeoLoad 6.3.1 (Feb 16, 2018)

New in NeoLoad 6.3.0 (Jan 23, 2018)

New Features and Enhancements:
Enhanced Security for Test Credentials: After making a recording for a test, the credentials used to make the
recording are not stored in plain text.
Enhanced Dynatrace Native Integration:
Testers can now target several system profiles during a session recording with Dynatrace
During a Dynatrace session recording, testers will now know exactly to which test the recording is associated
with, in addition to the NeoLoad project name and scenario
Testers can lock their recorded sessions so that Dynatrace cleaning process does not remove them automatically
Microsoft Monitoring Enhancements: Monitoring a Windows machine or a Microsoft Server (SQL Server, IIS, .Net)
offers new authentication capabilities. Instead of using the account of the user that launched NeoLoad or the
Monitoring Agent, NeoLoad also offers the possibility to specify the account to be used to connect to each
Windows machine or service (SQL Server, IIS, ASP.Net).
Access to NeoLoad Web URLs from NeoLoad: A tester/developer writing "glue code" within NeoLoad GUI
that integrates with other tools can easily access URLs related to NeoLoad Web as well as Proxy settings.
Bug Fixes:
FIXED: Characters '(' and ')' were not authorized in Logical action names.
FIXED: Automatic redirection requests did not go through application proxy. #11633
FIXED: When using request with automatic redirection, the display of the request sent was the last request instead of the first one. #11632
FIXED: Update recorded content did not work on WebSocket channels using encode/decode. #11625
FIXED: When running a test in command line with -noGUI parameter, the summary could be empty. #11701
FIXED: Monitoring a server using Basic authentication was not working. #11562
FIXED: On chrome, the proxy was not set when starting recording. #11635
FIXED: The User Path instance debug details could not be opened when a request or response contained a non ascii character. #4164
FIXED: In some case, testing a XPath variable extractor was failing for response containing HTML content. #11665
FIXED: Some HTTP/2 requests were not recorded properly. #11689
FIXED: In some case, HTTP/2 cookies were not sent with the correct separator. #11703
IMPROVED: The measure of the Controller throughput is more accurate. #11662
IMPROVED: The management of localhost load generator and monitoring agent has been improved for collaborative projects. #11613
IMPROVED: The test result engine logs files are now pushed to the Neotys Team Server. #11648

New in NeoLoad 6.2.2 (Dec 4, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 6.2.1 (Nov 22, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 6.2.0 (Nov 16, 2017)

New Features and Enhancements:
Native GIT Support: NeoLoad users who want to use the popular GIT distributed revision control system
or who need to leverage corporate IT/Development environment standards can take advantage of native
GIT support in NeoLoad 6.2
Automated Cloud Testing: Users can specify the characteristics of a Cloud session for an automated test,
using a mix of cloud and on-premises load generators, so that a Cloud session is automatically started
and used by an automated test. The cloud session can refer to VUH, Cloud credits, or both.
Try NeoLoad Web with your Standard or Professional Edition: NeoLoad Standard Edition and
NeoLoad Professional Edition now can access NeoLoad Web Free Edition so that all NeoLoad Editions can
access NeoLoad Web SaaS.
REST/JSON Monitor: Can now benefit from the authentication information defined on Servers in the Design section.
Cross-version Compatibility for Neotys Team Server: NeoLoad using an Enterprise License can immediately
use a new version of NeoLoad without having the NTS administrator upgrade the license. For example,
NeoLoad 6.2 can lease an existing NeoLoad 6.0 license from Neotys Team Server. (NTS 2.2 required)
Bug Fixes:
FIXED: HTTP response with an empty Transfer-Encoding header value was considered as an error by NeoLoad. #11531
FIXED: Some monitoring values were not sent to NeoLoad Web. #11536
FIXED: JSONPath could not be applied on responses with content-type application/hal+json. #11560
FIXED: "NullPointerException" error could occur during the User Path Update of JSON requests containing null values. #11532
FIXED: Preemptive basic authentication support was not implemented. #11630
FIXED: SLA profiles applied on scenario were applied even if disabled. #11492
FIXED: JUnit report included duplicate SLA. #11497
FIXED: All dashboards were loaded while opening project, causing high usage of memory and CPU. #11652
FIXED: Last variable could not be deleted in Variables manager. #11578
FIXED: Debug details could not be opened when response contained non ascii characters. #4164
FIXED: Flagger mode "JSON" only worked when content was transformed to XML. #11504
FIXED: Flagger mode "with parameters" did not work for multipart request. #11511
FIXED: JSONPath extraction was not available for some JSON responses. #11552
FIXED: In some case, when creating a request from text content, wrong server was created. #11561
FIXED: Engines logs were not published on Collaboration server. #11648
FIXED: Test result could be corrupted if during the execution, monitoring data were imported, or
SLA applied to a test result, or a test result retrieved from Collaboration server. #11589
FIXED: When a proxy is used, the Keep-Alive wasn't work. #11629
Compatibility:
NeoLoad 6.2 can connect to NeoLoad Web on-premise 1.2 only.
Cross-version Compatibility supported with NeoLoad 6.2 and Neotys Team Server 2.2.
NeoLoad 6.2 projects based on GIT must not be opened with NeoLoad 6.1 or they will be detected as SVN Projects.

New in NeoLoad 6.1.2 (Sep 28, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 6.1.1 (Sep 18, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 6.1.0 (Sep 18, 2017)

New Features and Enhancements:
Pass/Fail status of a test: All tests are associated to a status representing the fact that the test is considered as a success or a failure. In a CI/automation scenario, the continuation or interruption of the CI process can thus be determined by the success of a load test (of a component or of the system as a whole)
Runtime-defined target test environment: When programmatically running a test (using the Command line or the API), target test environment can be changed. This is achieved by changing the value of global variables representing the test environment of a NeoLoad project. In a CI/automation scenario, it becomes easy to programmatically target a specific environment
Native and full JSON support: Including JSONPath expressions to extract/validate data from JSON in Variable Extractors, Validators and Framework parameters. This not only makes JSON-based component testing easier but also speeds up the whole process by providing the power of JSONPath-based Extractors and Frameworks
Enhanced component testing using external content: New requests can be created using content that is cut-and-pasted "as-is" from an external source (for example, from SoapUI and Postman)
REST API access to test and monitoring data: NeoLoad Web's centralized REST API provides access to test and monitor data for a running or terminated test. Test and associated data can be pushed to an external tool (for example Elastic Search, Tableau, etc.)
Generic REST/JSON monitor: New type of monitor providing access to any monitoring element that provides a JSON/REST API (Docker or cAdvisor for example)
Scheduled tests can send data to NeoLoad Web. Performance testing teams can collaborate on test results and analysis regardless of whether the test was manually launched or scheduled automatically
Advanced Actions option provides the means of considering the action as a request significantly improving the analysis of Advanced Action-based tests
Bug Fixes:
FIXED: Errors of a test performed in 5.4.X could not be displayed. #11415
FIXED: Population delayed stop policy allowed new iteration to start even after population was stopped. #11427

New in NeoLoad 6.0.0 (Jun 27, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 5.5.2 (May 16, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 5.5.1 (Apr 28, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 5.5.0 (Apr 25, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 5.4.0 (Feb 13, 2017)

New in NeoLoad 5.3.1 (Dec 23, 2016)

New in NeoLoad 5.3.0 (Dec 22, 2016)

New Features and Enhancements:
MQTT support with new Advanced Actions (Advanced/Messaging/MQTT)
All Requests can now be placed outside a Page, for example directly inside a Transaction.
Upward compatibility for Projects: NeoLoad has the ability to open Projects created with newer versions of NeoLoad.
Improved license activation process that now requires an Activation only once once a year.
New 'Design' REST API (previously 'Recording API') that allows the remote control on the User Path Recording process, including User Path Update, and on Project actions (New/Open/ Save/Save-as).
Java Client for the Design API
Automated recording and Script maintenance with the new Java Selenium Web Driver.
Ability to set a custom decoder (written in Javascript) to decode the value extracted by a Variable Extractor.
Ability to defined a Framework Parameter which Variable Extractor does not set a default value when the value is not found.
Bug Fixes:
FIXED: The 'content-length' key was not removed from POST requests during recording. #10777
FIXED: It was impossible to make a recording with NTLM authentication with Internet Explorer. #10741
FIXED: Negative decimal values were not managed correctly with NBFX encoder. #10737
FIXED: Date values were not managed correctly with NBFX encoder. #10738
FIXED: "StringIndexOutOfBoundsException" error could occur when including variables during User Path Update. #10799
FIXED: JS scripts were lost after renaming a resource in shared projects. #10789
FIXED: While duplicating a monitored host or a monitor, associated thresholds could be stored several times in a project. #10879
FIXED: When launching a test with a large project and/or a slow network between Controller and LG, the LG appeared unavailable during test initialization. #10887
FIXED: Shared queue timeout did not work properly when timeout was greater than 60 seconds. #10889
FIXED: When HTTP2 server closed connection unexpectedly, LG was hung on request. #10796
FIXED: When server closed connection during ALPN negotiation, LG was hung on request. #10797
FIXED: When trying to access unreachable SSL server twice in a row, LG was hung on the second request if HTTP/2 was activated. #10925
FIXED: At runtime, if server response had Content-Encoding header with gzip value and content was actually not gzipped, request was marked as failed by NeoLoad. #10802
FIXED: Recording was not paused when starting a "Record here". #10812
FIXED: Soap Silverlight requests were not decoded as XML during recording. #10867
FIXED: During recording, HTTP/2 settings were not correctly handled. #10885
FIXED: During recording, if the server used HTTP/1.0 protocol and connection was kept opened, the request was not displayed in Neoload. #10904
FIXED: When starting a recording while proxy port was already in use, Neoload would not warn that the recording was impossible. #10932
FIXED: "NullPointerException" error could occur when generating SOAP requests with a WSDL file with parsing issues. #10965
FIXED: "NullPointerException" error could occur when generating SOAP requests with a WSDL file that contained binary parameters. #10966

New in NeoLoad 5.2.4 (Sep 19, 2016)

New in NeoLoad 5.2.3 (Aug 31, 2016)

FIXED: When an authenticated proxy was using the Negotiate protocol, the replay of HTTPS requests through proxy failed. #10659
FIXED: The font size of the Welcome page was tiny when display was upscaled to more than 100%. #10666
FIXED: During the replay of a request, if Multipart was defined in the header, another Multipart was added to the header. #10631
FIXED: During the replay of a request, chunked transfer encoding defined in the header was not taken into account. #10633
FIXED: During the replay of a request, all domain cookies were included even if paths were different. #10624
FIXED: During the recording, requests with gzipped and/or binary POST content were ignored. #10614
FIXED: During the recording, when the server answer was HTTP/1.1 and there were no "content-length" nor "transfer-encoding" keys, the response content was ignored. #10602
FIXED: POST requests were not GZipped when the "zip" word was in the value of "content-encoding" key and not in the header field of "content-type" key. #10619
FIXED: If authentication was required on a server using port 80, no authentication information linked to the server was displayed in the Post-recording wizard. #10591
FIXED: After a first recording with RTMP activated, the RTMP was activated on the following recordings even if RTMP box was unchecked. #10529
FIXED: Data Format Extension decoder was not applied to WebSocket responses during recording. #10585
FIXED: Projects with POST MIME requests could not be migrated nor loaded. #10606
FIXED: The blocking window "Execution Sanity Check" was displayed during "Check User Path" even if there were only warnings. #10579
FIXED: After first use of Send and Receive Advanced action with only one queue defined, the JMS session was closed. #10613
FIXED: During recording, Neoload could lost a 302 or 301 request when the response was too long. #10609
FIXED: In case of a 401 response code with no Authentication Header field, an error message was thrown. #10640
FIXED: The content of PUT and DELETE HTTP requests was displayed as 'null' in request Details tab of 'Check User Path'. #10654
FIXED: NL-RUNTIME-02 could occur at runtime when cookies were set in parallel. #10642
FIXED: Collaboration "Retrieve Tag" action was retrieving the current version of the project instead of the specified taggued version. #10658
FIXED: NL-RUNTIME-01 ClassCastException errors could occur at runtime while executing HTTP2 requests. #10660
FIXED: Assertion management on User Path was not working ("Go to the next iteration" and "Stop and start a new Virtual User"). #10662
FIXED: Usage of NTLM authentication caused the HTTP request to hang. #10466
FIXED: When displaying a long request in Check User Path dialog, NeoLoad could freeze. #10620
FIXED: In the JS API, getElapsedTime() method of VirtualUser class returned elapsed time from test start instead of Virtual User start. #10669
FIXED: AMF requests were not correctly displayed in Check User Path dialog. #10592
IMPROVED: Added an option in the Runtime parameters of Project settings to always apply pacing when an error occurs in Containers. #10520
IMPROVED: Ability to disable the GWT class name signature checking. Usage: Add in controller.properties: [GWT] gwt.class.signature.check=false . #10611
IMPROVED: Ability to update WebSocket channel connection timeout. Usage: Add in controller.properties: [WebSocket] websocket.client.connection.timeout=15000 . #10649
IMPROVED: Added Satellite connection profile for WAN emulation. #10641
IMPROVED: Improved display of XML response using UTF-16 when content-type header doesn't specify a charset. #10586

New in NeoLoad 5.2.2 (Jul 7, 2016)

New in NeoLoad 5.2.1 (Jun 25, 2016)

FIXED: WebSocket Channels caused native memory leak over several iterations. #10459
FIXED: In some case, usage of AMF requests caused the scenario to not stop in duration mode "no limit" or "time". #10343
FIXED: RTMPT open request was not correctly played, so the subscription failed during the Check User Path. #10357
FIXED: Request ordering could be not accurate during the recording. #10367
FIXED: HTTP2 request did not have a correct URL parameter encoding. #10384
FIXED: In some case, two different cookie headers were sent in requests. #10431
FIXED: After starting up NeoLoad, first project opening could take several minutes. #10436
FIXED: The duplication or update of a User Path corrupted the automatic variable extraction in POST parameters. #10440
FIXED: When response got status "401 Unauthorized", next request had double User-Agent HTTP field. (#10453)
FIXED: When using Random Integer variables, min and max values were twice less used than other values. #10446
FIXED: After generating a report containing charts from graph boards, it was impossible to create a new graph board. #10474
FIXED: Extracted variables were not listed in the variable picker of the Search and Replace wizard. #10481
FIXED: In GWT, The boolean deserialization in responses was always true. #10491
FIXED: Usage of NTLM authentication caused the HTTP request to hang. #10466
FIXED: Application using NTLM authentication could not be recorded. #10464
FIXED: Some cookies could cause all requests of a page to be in error. #10487
FIXED: Scatter graphs were empty in reports. #10473
FIXED: Cookies received in HTTPS responses were not used while upgrade an WSS channel. #10498
FIXED: Issue while recording HTTP/1.1 application on IE when server closed the connection unexpectedly. #10416
FIXED: When the response Content-Length mismatch the real content size, NL-NETWORK-01 error was thrown. #10508
FIXED: When WebSocket Channel creation failed, two entries were displayed in the Check User Path. #9817
FIXED: HTTP request did not support to have twice the same parameter with different case. #10515
FIXED: The HTTP request did not send IPs defined in LoadGenerator. #10523
FIXED: Neoload could not play the media with think time. #10535
FIXED: URL encoded with '+' for space character were not correctly parsed during the recording. #10538
FIXED: When server hostname contains an underscore, NL-RUNTIME-02 error was thrown. #10537
FIXED: When server closed the connection, NL-RUNTIME-01 error and EOFException were thrown. #10536
FIXED: Check User Path export/import was not working for WebSocket messages received on channel. #8974
FIXED: Using Recording API, the framework parameters were not applied when using option FrameworkParameterSearch. #10355
FIXED: NL-RUNTIME-02 error was thrown when playing AMF streaming media request. #10503
FIXED: When WebSocket channel creation failed, HTTP headers were not displayed. #10512
IMPROVED: Ability to support Siebel responses with missing property set. #10356
IMPROVED: Improved performance of global random variables. #10387
IMPROVED: JUnit test results for SLA applied on scenarii.
IMPROVED: In GWT, ability to exclude class in XML while decoding server response. #10398
Usage: Add in controller.properties: [GWT] gwt.omit.class.field.while.marshalling=full.qualified.classnameX-fieldNameX,full.qualified.classnameY-fieldNameY
IMPROVED: Do not encode request paths. It can be encoded with key in controller.properties: [Runtime] force.path.encode.variable=true

New in NeoLoad 5.2.0 (May 19, 2016)

New in NeoLoad 5.2.0 Beta (Apr 29, 2016)

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!
Faster and More Automated:
User Path Update
Prefilled Transaction List for Recording
Quickly Filter Out Unwanted Domains
Automatic Filtering of Results
Specify Load Generator IPs for Automated Testing
Runtime API
One-click Update of User Paths in NeoSense from NeoLoad
New Technologies and Integrations:
HTTP/2
Support for Windows 10 & Microsoft Edge Browser
C# Client for Data Exchange API
SQL Load Testing
The New, the Improved and the Miscellaneous:
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.

New in NeoLoad 5.1.4 (Dec 24, 2015)

FIXED: Random values from file variables were sometimes not random enough when there were more than 10,000 values. (#9003). Usage: edit controller.properties
and in the [Variables] section add the key fileVariable.max.lines.shuffled.in.round=X (X is the number of lines).
FIXED: In reports, custom graphs of percentile durations were showing all zeros in the legend. (#9306)
FIXED: Storing raw results could fail if there were containers with errors. (#9278)
FIXED: Dynamically played HTTPS resources were not cached in some cases. (#9267)
FIXED: The backslash character was not escaped when writing CSV files. (#9023)
FIXED: Report generation could fail when there were more than 10 GraphBoards. (#9039)
FIXED: Could not record HTTP requests with multipart content-type, nested inside another one. (#8988). Usage: edit controller.properties
and in the [Recorder] section add the key controller.recorder.allowSubBoundaryParsing=false
FIXED: The "-userReportTemplate" command line option did not include graph board results. (#6821)
FIXED: HTTP Authentication was not supported when importing WSDL. (#9150)
FIXED: Double quotes were sometimes used unnecessarily in WebSocket upgrade channels. (Case 91988 - Computest)
FIXED: In graphs, the targeted value displayed with the mouse cursor did not always match the graph value. (#9190)
FIXED: Linux monitors sometimes coulnd't read rkB/s and wkB/s. (#9209)
FIXED: Some GZIP content could not be uncompressed. (#9236)
FIXED: Collaboration actions of Share/Checkout using SVN Third Party Server using multiple repositories was not possible. (#9238)
FIXED: When modifying the duplicate of a JavaScript variable, the original variable was also modified. (#9246)
FIXED: The Count value of the Containers in the Test summary tab was slightly off. (#9251)
FIXED: Virtual Users were not ordered alphabetically for shared projects under Linux. (#9266)
FIXED: Floating protocol licenses encountered some issues. (#9200)
FIXED: Dynamic pages requested a non-existent URL when the "src" attribute was not set and the "srcset" attribute was used. (#9272)
FIXED: When using a third-party SVN server, collaboration authentication settings were lost after restarting NeoLoad. (#9276)
FIXED: The XML formatter couldn't handle dots (.) in tag names. (#9285)
FIXED: The test result servers.db file size was increasing continuously. (#9070)
FIXED: On Linux without X11, standalone Load Generators couldn't start. (#9294)
FIXED: Searching for generic dynamic parameters could return no parameter even if there were some. (#963)
FIXED: The "Loading project. Please wait" dialog box could block all actions on a project such as sharing, retrieving a project, etc. (#9324)
FIXED: In results, percentile graphs could freeze the UI for few seconds. (#9347)
IMPROVED: Support deployed applications on Wildfly 8.x and 9.x. Update labels for WebLogic 12 support. (#8864)
IMPROVED: Ability to bind encode/decode on HTTP entities based on the request URL. (#9028)
IMPROVED: Ability to exclude Siebel empty error message to be considered as error in the response. (#9048)
IMPROVED: Ability to use more than 4 processors to compute test result statistics. (#9084)
IMPROVED: Ability to specify a factor for the total number of error entries that each Load Generator can send to the Controller. (#9085)
IMPROVED: While launching a test from the command line, the report generation automatically updates all graphboards with the last test. (#9216)
IMPROVED: Update the Dynatrace http header name. (#9249)
IMPROVED: Added a Sample Project. (#8904)

New in NeoLoad 5.1.3 (Aug 5, 2015)

New in NeoLoad 5.1.2 (Aug 5, 2015)

New in NeoLoad 5.1.1 (Aug 5, 2015)

FIXED: NL-NETWORK-01 error occurred when playing SSL request with client certificate.
FIXED: Raw data were not filtered when filtering results by error.
FIXED: In result values, when filtering by error, Min and Min TTFB columns were populated with wrong values.
FIXED: Offline checkbox was deselected after importing an offline lease response.
FIXED: Silverlight requests containing specials characters were not correctly encoded.
FIXED: Push messages errors were not included in the Total Errors of Runtime Overview.
FIXED: Automatic xml formatting incorrectly formatted CDATA blocks and sometimes removed xml comments.
FIXED: OSX: Automatic certificate installation was not functional.
FIXED: Cookies sent by the server with quotes may not have been handled correctly.
FIXED: When adding a server to the recording exclusion list, the server's requests were not always removed.
FIXED: HTML rendering for Check Virtual User panel showed invalid content randomly.
FIXED: Extracted variables were only set to "NOTFOUND" the first time they were not found.
FIXED: Automatic proxy settings was not working when recording in tunnel mode on mac OS.
FIXED: In some cases, GWT responses could not be decoded.
FIXED: In case of Neoload has recorded an huge repose from the server and this server sent small response during the Check Virtual User. Neoload frozen during the replay.
FIXED: JBoss Widfly 9.0.0 was not correctly handled by JMS Advanced actions.
FIXED: Extracted variables were not always listed in the Variable picker of the Search and replace wizard.
FIXED: Edition of Virtual User tree while using filter could lead to visual issue.
FIXED: Truncated mean percent for monitor metrics was not taken into account when updating test result.
FIXED: POST parameters in form requests were not displayed in the comparison window.
FIXED: Some GWT requests/responses could not be decoded.
IMPROVED: Ability to not add additional cookies in HTTP requests. Usage: edit the controller.properties file and add the following in the [Runtime] section: http.add.additional.cookies=false
IMPROVED: Added Min, Average, Max, Median, Avg-90% and Std. Dev. values for each curve of the reports custom graphs.
IMPROVED: Added the ability to update the URL to the Neotys Team Server associated with a project (the SVN repository must be the same).
IMPROVED: Support for Nudge APM.
IMPROVED: Ability to rename WebSocket Channels.

New in NeoLoad 5.0.4 (Apr 9, 2015)

New in NeoLoad 5.0.3 (Mar 30, 2015)

FIXED: Percentile Container Response Time SLA was not calculated correctly. (#7517)
FIXED: Raw data was not sent for Try, Catch, If and Then Containers. (#7511)
FIXED: Memory leak (OutOfMemoryError) could occur when launching a test having variables with a local scope policy. (#7427)
FIXED: ConcurrentModificationException error could occur when launching a test having variables with a local scope policy. (#7426)
FIXED: Remote migration could fail when publishing and renaming a project. (#5837)
FIXED: During design step, variable extraction sometimes failed when regular expressions were used (runtime is not affected). (#7330)
FIXED: When using Global/Any List variables with several Load Generators, values distribution across Load Generators was not correct. (#7462)
FIXED: In some rare cases, local variables were not incremented by variable modifiers. (#7504)
FIXED: Load Generators could be lost during initialization phases of several minutes. (#7451)
FIXED: Corrupt external data results could cause summary report generation to fail. (#7486)
FIXED: Selected text in a text picker was lost when the window was reopened. (#7518)
FIXED: During recording, cache clearing was not working on Firefox versions 32+. (#525)
FIXED: Responses for Push Messages were not stored. (#7298)
FIXED: "Top Statement" monitoring did not work for DB2 version 9.5. (#7590)
FIXED: POST data was empty in the Data Format Extension API on multipart requests. (#7624)
FIXED: JBoss 7.1-7.x monitoring statistics could be randomly inaccurate when defining more than one monitor. (#7604)
FIXED: Slash character ('/') was not supported in external data entry paths. (#7663)
FIXED: A server reference in a form extractor could be lost when saving a project. (#7598)
FIXED: Proxy recorder was trimming spaces in HTTP header values. (#7736)
FIXED: Custom actions times could not be counted in parent container time. (#7488)
FIXED: External Data times remained relative when switching from relative to absolute. (#7491)
FIXED: Uppercase content-types were not recognized. (#7542)
FIXED: Regexp timestamp extractor was not evaluated at runtime on Push Messages. (#7540)
FIXED: GraniteDS AMF class org.granite.collections.BasicMap could not be deserialized correctly. (#7994)
FIXED: At runtime, WebSocket Context lifespan was the LG duration instead of the duration of the WebSocket channel. (#7533)
FIXED: The time scale of the Top 10 First Alerts graph could be inaccurate. (#8050)
FIXED: Improved GWT Support. (#7765)
IMPROVED: GWT Serialization/Deserialization major improvements. (#7765)
IMPROVED: WebSocket: Ability to use a binder on a specific HTTP header from the response of the channel creation. (#7526)
IMPROVED: Hostname DNS resolution can be randomized (#8034). Usage: edit controller.properties
file and add in section [Runtime] the property key dns.random.resolution=true
IMPROVED: Ability to exclude Siebel code to be considered as error in the response (#7487). Usage: edit controller.properties
file and add in section [Siebel] the property key siebel.errors.to.exclude=SBL-DAT-00416,SBL-DAT-00417
IMPROVED: Ability to use NeoLoad variables in the file parameters type of Multipart/Form-Data POST request methods. (#7445)
IMPROVED: Ability to see JSON / NBFS / NBFX requests and responses as XML content (#7774). Usage: edit controller.properties
file and add in section [General] the property key
json.codec.accepted.content.types=application/hal+json
nbfs.codec.accepted.content.types=application/nbfs
nbfx.codec.accepted.content.types=application/nbfx

New in NeoLoad 5.0.2 (Dec 12, 2014)

New in NeoLoad 5.0.1 (Dec 12, 2014)

FIXED: In some rare cases finding dynamic parameters after renaming a Virtual User could fail. (#4610)
FIXED: For tests with a time based duration policy, a custom load was not applied properly for point with 0 users. (#4468)
FIXED: The extension Codec API did not work and prevented recording. (#6603)
FIXED: The option predictable randomization for the variable extractor was not working properly. (#6623)
FIXED: In some rare cases a corrupted file could prevent leasing a license. (#2448)
FIXED: Repeated popups about license limitations would occur when a load policy was incorrectly configured. (#4228)
FIXED: Deleting multiple test results that were already graphed and selected could sometimes cause the GUI to display old data. (#6108)
FIXED: A test could not be started when an unused Virtual User required a missing license module. (#5822)
FIXED: The name of a Websocket request was incorrect when trying to delete a server that could not be deleted. (#4686)
FIXED: In some cases, the rendez-vous policy was not fair and Virtual Users were released in wrong order. (#6303)
FIXED: The variable name "userId" is now reserved and inaccessible. (#3880)
FIXED: A regex that never returned in a variable extractor could cause the GUI to freeze. (#3805)
FIXED: The variable scope Unique/Global and policy for each Virtual User didn't work as expected when the Virtual User was set to emulate a new browser between each iteration. (#6612)
FIXED: Responses from Websocket channels were only stored during a CheckVU and not during a test. (#5976)
FIXED: GWT responses containing strings longer than 65535 characters could not be decoded. (#6851)
FIXED: In some cases, the list of servers in Search and replace was inconsistent. (#6978)
FIXED: Perfecto Mobile: Stopping a CheckVU did not send a "stop" command to an already executing script. (#6128)
FIXED: Perfecto Mobile: Timestamps received did not match test start time. (#6985)
FIXED: Perfecto Mobile: SSL certificates were not trusted in the same way as the rest of NeoLoad. (#6892)
FIXED: Perfecto Mobile: Proxy settings were not taken into account. (#6986)
FIXED: SSL record did not work properly for plugin requests with URL parameters. (#6217)
IMPROVED: Default to pretty format xml for xml responses. (#3697)

New in NeoLoad 5.0.0 (Dec 12, 2014)

New in NeoLoad 4.0.1 (Apr 23, 2012)

Collaboration Features:
NeoLoad allows a team to work together on the same project thanks to a shared repository; the Neotys Team Server.
Several testers may be involved in the creation and the analyses of test cases. NeoLoad v4.0 offers dedicated features to support collaboration among users allowing teams to save time and be more productive:
Share Virtual User profiles.
Share Test Results.
Project versioning.
NeoLoad 4.0 introduces a new automated way to manage the Service Level Agreements for your applications.
You can define the required level of performance for any item of the scenario. For example, define the average response time or maximum error rate allowable for each business transaction.
NeoLoad shows if the defined level of each SLA is met or not. This information is available during the test, in the results of the analysis, as well as in the reports.
Mobile Support:
NeoLoad now has specific features to test mobile versions of web applications as well as native mobile applications:
Easily record the mobile version of your websites directly from your desktop browser thanks to the "Identify as" feature.
Emulate mobile browsers during the test.
Generate realistic traffic on the server with the bandwidth emulation. The new advanced bandwidth picker provides accurate values for each technology (ex: "3G+ with medium quality of signal").
Externalized Monitoring Engines:
NeoLoad provides the ability to deploy several monitoring engines in sub networks.
All the monitoring engines communicate with the controller using a single port to facilitate the configuration of firewalls and routers.
It's now faster and easier than ever to use NeoLoad monitoring modules during a test, even in the most complex network architectures, still without any intrusive component to deploy on the monitored server itself.
Video Support:
NeoLoad now automatically detects video requests in a project and provides specific statistics related to the quality of the video playback.
NeoLoad records and replays video requests using different protocols (HTTP, RTMP) and video format (flv, avi, mpeg4...).
NeoLoad now also provides specific statistics on the quality of the video playback (lag duration, time to start the video).
Integrated On-Demand Cloud Testing:
NeoLoad now comes standard with integrated cloud testing as part of all 4.0+ licenses. Now with a single interface, you can access instant infrastructure from the Neotys Cloud Platform to easily make geographically targeted and high-scale testing a part of your plan.
Expanded geographical coverage means NeoLoad helps you create even more realistic tests for your external-facing applications.
New Virtual User Profile:
NeoLoad 4.0 introduces a new way to design virtual users, making the design of complex test cases faster and easier.
All virtual user profiles contain the following: Init / Actions / End immutable containers allowing easy design for long scenarios.
All the elements inserted in the “Actions” container are repeated until the virtual user stops at which point End container actions are executed before finishing the scenario.
Add/Remove Virtual Users at Runtime:
NeoLoad 4.0 introduces more flexibility in load management. NeoLoad users are able to change the load while a test is running.
As before, you can setup your load very precisely before starting the test. With NeoLoad v4.0, you can also now react to the various indicators available during the test to adjust the load while the test is in process.
For example, if your server starts to show very slow response times, it is possible to reduce the load to avoid reaching the limits. If your test is going better than expected, you can add load to test the limits of your infrastructure under very high load without having to start a new test.
Flexible Licensing:
NeoLoad 4.0 is offered with new licensing options for increased flexibility to accommodate a range of use cases from multi-project environments to single per project rentals.
Shared License: A new license type will allow team members to share a license and run concurrent tests.
Design License: The Design License (5VU) now allows you to collaborate with your team. This license allows you to:
Run small tests to deeply validate datasets and variable settings, and test design scenarios that involve interactions between virtual users.
Setup and test the monitoring configuration.
Share virtual user profiles with your team.
Analyze the test results stored in the Neotys Team Server (provided with Design License and Collaboration Module).
Rental License: The rental license is now more flexible by allowing non-consecutive days of testing. Usage and pricing are now per day.
No Key mode: NeoLoad in “no key” mode allows customers to design virtual user profiles and analyze results without a license key (no cost). To run tests and use collaboration, however, requires a license. Note that for NeoLoad evaluation the Trial License will allow you to run tests and use the collaboration features with a maximum of 10VUs for 30 days.
Miscellaneous:
New Generic JMX Monitoring Module.
NeoLoad contains all the known performance indicators of java application servers. For those counters, NeoLoad provides default selection and thresholds. With the new custom JMX monitoring module, it is now possible to monitor specific counters and all JMX servers and JMX devices during tests.
Proxy per Zone:
When using load generators located in different networks, NeoLoad v4.0 allows the use of different proxy settings for each load generator zone.
Predefined dataset for test data:
Most tests require realistic non production data, and it may be time consuming to create the dataset to be used. NeoLoad v4.0 provides default datasets for common entries (first name, last name, zip code...). Generating test data is now done in a matter of minutes.
Parameter Comparison in Check VU Dialog:
NeoLoad v4.0 uses a new panel dedicated to the request parameters comparison in the Check Virtual User dialog. Using this new panel, NeoLoad shows the parameters/cookies with different value(s) to easily find the dynamic parameters in your application. The design of virtual users is therefore simplified and faster.
Enable/Disable elements:
All the actions of a virtual user profile (containers, pages...) can be disabled in one click. It is now simple to remove a part of the scenario for a specific test and put it back later.
Page screenshots:
When recording, the screenshots that NeoLoad takes to help you to navigate in the Virtual User profile are more accurate. NeoLoad gets the full content of the web browser window even if it's hidden by another application.