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Web Performance Load Tester

Changes: The big news in this release is the ability to automatically generate load from the Amazon EC2 cloud. Just push a button and there can be hundreds of computers generating massive amounts of load against your Web site. This saves a huge amount of time over configuring competing commercial or open source competitors. The other major feature is support for IE8 and Firefox 3.5. Record your test case with any modern browser and the software automatically configures the test case to replay with the correct socket behavior.

Changes: This is a major release. One of the application’s most appealing new features is its use of visual displays and video demonstrations that let users with zero programming experience create test cases, run load tests, and analyze the results. The new Click-to-Configure feature lets users configure dynamic text entry fields simply by importing a list of established values. New Performance Goal Analysis instantly pinpoints the exact system location causing performance problems, while its User Capacity Analysis lets users know exactly how many visitors a site can handle.

Changes: This release fixes two bugs that only affected a small number of users, one where the Advanced Statement Management logic took hours to run (WPA-1284), and another where one particular site was causing the reports to not be generated (WPL-925). If you're using the program and aren't having either of these problems, it's recommended that you skip this update for now.

Changes: The TCP connection retransmits/second and disk metrics should now have floating point accuracy. The VU now terminates when no dataset rows are available.

Changes: This release is very stable. The last three releases have been minor changes to fix problems for customers with issues not anticipated in the test lab, i.e. 64-bit processors. If your current version is working fine for you, it is recommend that you wait until the 3.6 release.