WebLoad Professional 8.6.0.026

WebLOAD Professional is RadView’s award-winning software for performance testing of internet applications. Installed at over 2000 companies, WebLOAD Professional is the premier field-proven solution for testing an internet application’s ability to handle the demands of actual customer use and launching it with confidence.

Powerful Solution
WebLOAD Professional provides a full range of load-testing capabilities:

1. Performance testing functions test the response time of a given request while the system is under load.
2. Scalability testing functions determine the parameters for planning hardware procurement in the face of growing concurrent requests.
3. Reliability testing reveals potential problems arising from extended runs.

WebLOAD Professional is specially designed to support testing of Web 2.0 internet applications, including multimedia and Adobe Flex based sites. WebLOAD Professional has built-in support for AJAX technologies, JSON data types and different flavors of SOAP and XML web services.

WebLOAD Professional lowers operating costs by minimizing both capital and operating expenses. WebLOAD reduces training costs by adhering to industry standards such as the use of JavaScript in its script authoring environment. WebLOAD offers industry-leading hardware efficiency by maximizing load simulation per machine, thus requiring less hardware to simulate more users. Combined with its open standards approach and flexible and affordable licensing, WebLOAD Professional delivers a remarkably low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

With WebLOAD Professional, the average time to deployment is only one day, compared to industry averages of 5-7 days. WebLOAD’s authoring language is JavaScript, a language that your team is already familiar with. Once you have started using WebLOAD Professional, maintaining and reusing test scripts is instantaneous thanks to WebLOAD’s state of the art authoring environment.

Designed for internet applications and the people who test them, WebLOAD Professional delivers productivity through a powerful, feature-rich testing environment. It’s advanced JavaScript authoring environment enables the creation of true-to-reality scripts that use a variety of protocols, with ease. The sophisticated run-time console gives maximum control for simulating and monitoring tests. With effortless flexibility, WebLOAD Professional lets you manipulate every type of runtime parameter including the number of virtual clients, the combination of user scripts and test duration. WebLOAD Professional offers thorough tracking and analysis through real time monitoring on display and also provides a comprehensive repository of test data for post-test reporting.

WebLOAD Professional supports a wide range of internet protocols ranging from HTTP/S, WAP, SOAP and Ajax to RTSP/RTP, FTP, SMTP and raw TCP/IP. WebLOAD’s reliance on open standards let’s you add and extend new and proprietary protocols as and when you need.

RadView has developed a range of Add-Ons to meet the load testing needs of specialized technology environments such as Multimedia and Adobe Flex 2. Add-Ons bring the full power of WebLOAD to the specialized environment, providing full coverage during the authoring, execution and analysis phases of the test. In keeping with our standards-based approach, WebLOAD Add-Ons are developed using our published Software Development Kit.

WebLOAD Professional is the load-testing tool of choice for more than 1,600 customers across multiple industries. WebLOAD is successfully used to test applications in various sectors including financial services, internet technology, media, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, health care and education. See our list of key customers for more information.

Release notes:

New Release
Support for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Vista:
· In addition to its support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, WebLOAD now fully supports Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. For those who want to generate load from Linux machines, the WebLOAD 8.6 load generators can run on almost any flavor of Linux as well.

Expert performance knowledge:
· With this new release, RadView has made it easier for a novice load tester to identify performance bottlenecks. WebLOAD 8.6 now includes expert performance knowledge and best practice performance rules that proactively identify performance bottlenecks in the system under test.

New Parameterization Manager:
· The new Parameterization Manager extends the capabilities of its predecessor with new parameter types that support the most complicated scenarios. In addition, its new visual editor enables management of dynamic content from within the test script, eliminating the need for manual editing.
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