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Analyze your load tests

OctoPerf's report engine provides many graphs to sort and presents test metrics in a comprehensive way. We've tried to improve it over the years so that you can access critical information very quickly. But requirements vary from one project to the other.

In this post we will look at how you can configure the report to show your preferred metrics, and also all the shortcuts you can take to achieve this goal.

The best example is the Report summary, it allows you to navigate between all the items in a few clicks:

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Importing Postman requests to Octoperf

You may have spent a considerable amount of time configuring Postman requests for your in-house API tests, and you wish to use them without having to create them again from scratch on Octoperf.

That's one of the many situations where Octoperf's compatibility with Jmeter is going to come in a handy.

Warning

A new and faster way to import Postman Collections has been implemented in Octoperf.

You can find more information here.

Postman to Jmeter

The first step will be to convert your requests into a JMeter-friendly format, using Postman Code Generation Snippet :

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Test mobile native applications with OctoPerf

As mobility has been the trend these past years, all the users coming to a website do so from many different devices. OctoPerf allows you to simulate traffic to your website, but it also allows to simulate this kind of multi-device traffic.

That being said, to take advantage of OctoPerf possibilities, you might need to import several different user journeys. Because a mobile user is very likely to deal with a different version of the application. Thus if you record only one user journey from a computer's browser and use it for your tests, they may not be realistic.

Browser based mobile apps

To record the traffic from a mobile application, you have several options. For browser based apps, you can record them from Chrome or firefox and just use the dev tools to switch the user agent:

Native apps are a bit more complex to get by.

Let's see what is required step by step to record such an application.