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Browser-based Load Testing

Innovation May 26, 2016

Collect and analyze end-user experience metrics with browser-based load testing.

We are proud to announce that we now support running real browser load testing alongside with regular HTTP load testing. We have integrated the JMeter Selenium WebDriver to our platform. It’s now possible to run JMeter load tests as well as Selenium webdriver tests simultaneously. Collect both network metrics like response time and end-use experience metrics like browser load time. Octoperf removes the pain of load testing your app with Selenium with our Saas integration.

What we did these last two weeks

Innovation May 12, 2016

Our latest additions to OctoPerf.

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: Ease of use Implementing feedbacks User experience 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: But also through a brand new guided tour: Our goal has always been to make load testing as simple as possible, so we hope these will make OctoPerf even easier to handle:

New features and improvements

Innovation Apr 21, 2016

Get an insight about the features introduced since January 2016.

This blog post aims to resume all the cool new features and improvements we’ve made to OctoPerf since the beginning of the year. Design Improvements and features in this section are related to the online virtual user design exclusive to OctoPerf. Enable / Disable actions 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.

New Load Testing region

Innovation Jan 28, 2016

We’ve just opened a new load testing region, Seoul (South Korea).

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. Future expansion Amazon is currently extending their datacenters to the following new locations:

On-premise load injectors in 2 min

Innovation Jan 14, 2016

OctoPerf last update lets you add an on-premise provider easily, so you can do load tests behind the firewall.

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.

New reporting capabilities

Innovation Dec 10, 2015

OctoPerf last update improves the overall reporting: percentiles are displayed in the result table.

OctoPerf last update focused on improving the overall reporting with, for example, the possibility to insert page breaks in the generated PDF report. The result table We worked hard on the result table: from the way the metrics are displayed and sorted to the CSV export, we reviewed this report item so you can get the most revealing information from it. The percentile metric Until now OctoPerf analysis section only came with a specific report item dedicated to percentiles.

Automated Subscription With Stripe

Innovation Nov 26, 2015

OctoPerf last update aims to automate the subscription process. You can now buy, renew and cancel plans on your own.

This short post describes the modifications made to OctoPerf for its last update, and how they can let you save time while preparing your load tests. You may need to have a large performance test done for yesterday. In such case the process to get a license with the appropriate number of virtual users must be as straightforward as possible. Subscribing to a plan In OctoPerf, it’s a matter of minutes:

Load Testing Reports Exporting

Innovation Sep 1, 2015

OctoPerf last update aims to help our users improve their productivity while load testing their applications.

This short post describes the modifications made to OctoPerf for its last update, and how they can help you save time while load testing. Our goal is, and has always been, to ease the work of load testers. Creating test reports using Word / Excel can take a lot of time. Exporting the report That’s why we automated this process in OctoPerf, our load testing solution. Even as your performance bench is running, you can edit the generated report:

New Load Testing Reports features

Innovation Aug 5, 2015

To improve the quality of our test reports, we enhance them with features you will love.

Traction or Features Why improving our reporting system? We were aware that some features were missing to make it easier to drill-down to bottlenecks. But, we prioritized those features low at the moment because we were focused on gaining traction for now. If you have read How we greatly improved User Engagement, you know that we care about our customer needs. We carefully collect and prioritize customer feedbacks. And, at some point, we decided to get back to development to make some major improvements, based on what our customers experienced with our tool.

How we greatly improved user engagement

Innovation Jul 1, 2015

4 minimal UI tweaks we did to dramatically improve our trial conversion rate.

The goal of any Saas Application is to convert as many trials as possible to paid customers. To improve your application, what do you absolutely need? Feedback. We are using a live chat support app to get feedback on how users are using our SaaS app. We were greatly surprised by the results. Many of our users were stuck at the very first step of load testing their web or mobile app.

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