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Browser-based Load Testing

We are proud to announce that we now support running real browser load testing alongside with regular HTTP load testing. We have integrated the JMeter Selenium WebDriver to our platform. It's now possible to run JMeter load tests as well as Selenium webdriver tests simultaneously. Collect both network metrics like response time and end-use experience metrics like browser load time.

Octoperf removes the pain of load testing your app with Selenium with our Saas integration. We setup and launch properly configured machines for you, with pre-configured latest Firefox web browser.

How it works

The following diagram sums up how Selenium drives any existing web-browser.

Selenium Architecture

What we did these last two weeks

It's been a busy couple of weeks but we keep doing our best to get new features in OctoPerf.

We have worked on two topics:

  • Ease of use
  • Implementing feedbacks

User experience

Some of you probably noticed but we are working to improve the first experience with OctoPerf. At first with video tutorials which show all the features: Tutorial

New features and improvements

This blog post aims to resume all the cool new features and improvements we've made to OctoPerf since the beginning of the year.

Design

Improvements and features in this section are related to the online virtual user design exclusive to OctoPerf.

Enable / Disable actions

This is a must-have to quickly rework any existing virtual user. Any action can now be disabled to prevent it from being executed when running the virtual user. Actions no longer need to be removed from the virtual user to be taken out of the execution. This feature is especially useful to debug virtual users by running repeated validations.

Enable / Disable actions

Continuous Integration Load Testing with Jenkins

We're proud to announce that we released our Jenkins / Hudson plugin to run load tests from your favorite Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery service. The sooner you detect a performance issue the quicker the bottleneck can be found and fixed.

We believe that Continuous Integration Load Testing is the key to help companies deliver high performance web applications in time. Applications today not only need to pass unit and integration tests to ensure proper operation, but also acceptance tests like performance tests to ensure it behaves correctly under load.

The new OctoPerf Jenkins plugins allows you to leverage the power of our hybrid cloud / on-premise load testing solution as part of your development / testing build cycle. This significantly simplifies load testing web application for developers and testers. Each load test can leverage the power of our infrastructure to run thousands of virtual users.

Our highly scalable infrastructure will take care of launching as many virtual users as you need every time you run a Jenkins build. It makes load testing large scale web applications on a regular basis significantly easier.

Regression Testing

Continuous Performance Testing

New Load Testing region

We're pleased to announce today the launch of the Asia Pacific (Seoul, South Korea) region. Companies with infrastructures based in Korea can now leverage our Korean load generators to measure the performance of their applications.

Seoul, South Korea

Load tests can now be run smoothly from South Korea using Amazon Web Services. Seoul is well-known to be digital nomads friendly.