LoadComplete

New Features

New in LoadComplete 2.5

• Cloud testing support - use Amazon cloud computing to easily simulate virtual users. LoadComplete automatically starts cloud computers, simulates virtual users on them, gets results and terminates the cloud machines when they are no longer needed.
• Validate response data - adds support for verifying a response's contents against baseline data which is useful for Flash/Flex testing as these applications often return HTTP 200 response codes and return error messages in the body. Also there is a new failed validations graph and a failed validations counter available for providing summary information on validation failures.
• Enhanced request parameterisation - parameterise URL paths so you can create load tests for websites that use user or session IDs in web page URLs. You can also parameterise request header fields.
• Test log improvements - the warnings and errors graphs have been combined into one graph and you can now create custom graphs that may include several predefined metrics shown on one chart.
• Enhanced support for AMF protocol - supports classes implementing the IExternalizable interface so you can view object's contents and modify their data in your tests
• Plus more new features and a range of bug fixes.

New in LoadComplete 2.0

• Load testing for websites built with RIA technologies - including support for Adobe Flex and Flash, Silverlight and AJAX.
• Enhanced point-and-click automation - parameterise test data in AMF, JSON, SOAP, XML and Silverlight data formats.
• Higher load generation capacity - enables 25% more virtual users per node.
• New waterfall charts - supports detailed analysis of the slowest pages, improving testing productivity by highlighting areas with possible performance problems.

Features

Automated load test recording

You can easily create load tests in LoadComplete by recording application usage scenarios in your web browser. While you navigate through the tested application, LoadComplete captures any HTTP, HTTPS and SOAP requests sent and responses received. LoadComplete also detects dynamic parameters in the recorded traffic, such as session IDs which are automatically replayed during test playback.

No programming or scripting required

Create and modify load tests through a GUI and wizard-based interface. There’s no scripting/programming involved, and no proprietary syntax/language to learn. This way, even inexperienced team members can start testing instantly and easily.

Supports a range of technologies

LoadComplete provides load, stress and performance testing for a range of applications including ASP.NET, Ajax, Flex (including Flash and other Adobe RIA applications) and Silverlight.

Realistic workload simulation

LoadComplete employs various techniques to make simulated loads as real life as possible:

• Parameterising tests with external data - define different data for each virtual user – logins, passwords, form fields and so on. Test data can be fetched from external data sources, such as Excel, CSV, text files and databases. You can also use LoadComplete’s built-in data generator to automatically generate data for your tests in a variety of formats.
• Flexible workload - perform tests with different workload levels, including steady, ramp-up and user-defined load and quickly switch between various load types.
• Customisable browser and connection characteristics - select the browser type, connection speed and other characteristics for your virtual users.
• Customisable think time - use random think time when playing back the tests, so that your virtual users send requests at a different pace and spend different time on web pages.
• Session handling support - supports various session handling methods, including cookies, session IDs, ASP.NET view state and so on.

Real-time performance monitoring

Fully monitor server performance while load tests are running with up to 4 graphs tracking basic response values, quality of service errors and server-side metrics. Graphs can be customised to include:

• Client-side metrics - page load time, TTFB (time to first byte), response throughput and others
• Windows, Apache and Unix server-side performance counters - CPU and memory usage, disk and network throughput and others
• Windows Performance Monitor counters - .NET Framework, ASP.NET, ASP, SQL Server counters and others.

Detailed load test reports

Once load testing has completed, view a range of in-depth reports of the test results. A summary report lets you see key metrics and identify issues at a glance and a detailed report with interactive charts helps you to understand how response time and server performance correlate with user activities.

Configurable quality of service thresholds

Define performance thresholds for your tests to better ensure compliance with your quality of service (QoS) standards.

Distributed load testing

To simulate a very high workload (such as thousands of concurrent users), LoadComplete lets you distribute virtual users among multiple computers on your network running LoadComplete Remote Agent. The Remote Agent software is included in each LoadComplete Controller license.

Windows authentication support

LoadComplete supports multiple authentication schemes for testing secure applications, including Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos.

System Req.

Supported operating systems

• Microsoft Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit editions).
• Microsoft Windows Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit editions).
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (both 32-bit and 64-bit editions).
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core installations are supported only with the WoW64 component installed.).
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (both 32-bit and 64-bit editions).
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (both 32-bit and 64-bit editions).