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:
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:
This blog post aims to resume all the cool new features and improvements we've made to OctoPerf since the beginning of the year.
Improvements and features in this section are related to the online virtual user design exclusive to OctoPerf.
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.
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.
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.
Load tests can now be run smoothly from South Korea using Amazon Web Services. Seoul is well-known to be digital nomads friendly.
We are proud to announce that we support On-Premise load testing! What is On-premise load testing? Sometimes, web applications to test are behind firewalls. It may also happen that the application should not be available publicly until in production. Our on-premise feature allows you to test those applications without opening any firewall port.
You can now setup a machine to act as a load-generator on your private network. This post explains how to setup an on-premise load-generator within minutes.
Our new technology allows you to mix both on-premise and cloud load-generators. Simulate virtual users running on your on-premise load-generators and virtual users running on our cloud infrastructure at the same time.
All you need to do is to run our load testing agent on your on-premise servers. It consists of a simple Docker container, thus requiring nothing else than Docker. The agent connects to our Cloud platform, and waits for tasks. The agent will spawn JMeter Docker container when running load tests. JMeter will then hit your application and send metrics to our cloud servers.