Author: Ivan Lisitsyn

Load testing of HTTPS web sites
Testing practice WAPT usage

Load testing of HTTPS web sites

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As you probably know, the percent of secure HTTPS web sites is growing every day. Moreover, even if you do not care about security, the latest news from Google suggests that you will have to move to HTTPS in any case, because otherwise you will see your site dropping down in search results.

Depending on the implementation of your site, switching it to secure connection may take from few minutes to few weeks. You may face functional problems, broken links and thigs like that. Imagine that after you have done everything required, you finally see your site working under the perfect green line of the browser address bar. The question is: what have happened with the site performance, and should you load test it again?

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WAPT 9.3 and WAPT Pro 4.3
WAPT usage

WAPT 9.3 and WAPT Pro 4.3

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Last week we released updates to our products, so it’s time to make some notes on this in addition to the official information, which (as usual) can be found on our site. In fact, I recommend taking a look at the list of new features before reading further. I would not say that we introduced anything to change the world of load testing, but few of the additions put us ahead of our competitors, which is definitely good. Let’s get to the list…

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Response validation with JavaScript code
WAPT usage

Response validation with JavaScript code

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One of the benefits of the Pro version of WAPT in comparison with the regular one is that you can insert JavaScript code inside profiles to handle various calculations. This can be used to parametrize complex user sessions when session-specific values are not contained in the response page code explicitly. Another example is when you cannot extract values from the response with help of standard functions, like “Search Parameter”, because bounding text may be variable. So, you need to implement more complex search algorithms to find the right value occurrence.

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What I like the most in WAPT Pro 4.0
WAPT usage

What I like the most in WAPT Pro 4.0

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We introduced WAPT Pro 4.0 about a month ago. It was a long awaited release that we had been working on for more than two years. The full list of new features is available here as usual. This looks more like a marketing message, of course. If you want to know what I personally think about each feature, I can provide different comments using the same list. This is a kind of exclusive information for the readers of this blog.

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12 typical confusions for a novice load tester
General Testing practice WAPT usage

12 typical confusions for a novice load tester

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After several years of work with our customers I decided to summarize my experience by gathering the most common user confusions resulted in questions to our technical support service. I think that most of these issues were caused by wrong ideas or interpretations people may have had. In other words, in each specific case the problem was caused not by the lack of information, but rather by some sort of incorrect assumptions.

Of course, nothing like that would be possible if everyone spent couple hours reading the user guide before trying to use the product. But for some reason people rarely do it this way.

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