Summary Page for Versions 5.5-S & 5.5-X

New features:

ZebraTester V5.5-X release contains the following new features:

• New Var Assign Pattern: - ZT introduces a new variable assign pattern where variables can be assigned automatically (or manually) in the requests using the pattern {$variable name}

• AMF3 / Flex Support: - ZT supports the AMF3 Binary format, meaning ZT can encode and decode AMF 3 data. Decoding is mainly from the AMF 3 binary format to an XML format.

• Support of Entry conditions for Inner Loops: - ZT now supports (optional) entry conditions in deciding whether or not to execute the inner loop during the load test/monitoring.

• Support for Modular Scripting: - ZT supports modular scripting with the help of inner loops and a built-in plugin called SupportModularScripts. For a fuller explanation and getting started, see Modular Scripting Support in ZebraTester (V5.5-X+).

• Full Browser Cache Support: - ZT fully supports browser cache options like Cache HTML & Simulate New User per Loop. Browser cache metrics are now available in the ZT result file (.prxres), which states the cache hits and misses.

• Variable Rules support: - Users can create rules for variable extraction and assignment (global settings) and these rules can be applied to the recorded session (. prxdat) at any time.

  • A new Apply Var Rules icon will allow you to replace all existing variables automatically. This will also support the new var assign pattern mentioned at the start of this list.

• Save option for the recorded session: - ZT now can save the recorded session (.prxdat) faster by just clicking the new Save Icon instead of always going into the Save As mode. The old save icon has been renamed to Save As.

   

ZebraTester V5.5-S release contains the following new features:

• Changes in Kerberos with SPNEGO: - Instead of getting the ticket-granting ticket every time from the Key Distribution Centre by authenticating using the username and password, ZT will now look if there's a ticket available in the local OS cache. If it's available, then ZT will use that ticket in order to do the challenge with the webserver.

• CyberArk Integration with NTLM: - ZT can configure the Password Vault API or Command to retrieve the password when doing the NTLM challenge with the webserver so the user doesn’t need to configure the static password along with the script.

  • ASM CyberArk NTLM Support

• User-Defined data points: - ZT enables the user to create data points that can be used to create a custom performance metric and later become part of the performance test results. The measured user-defined data points are shown in a Diagram, in the results.

• Input files support in LoadRunner to ZT conversion: - The LoadRunner-to-ZT conversion will now take the external parameter files (.dat files) from LoadRunner and convert these to the input files/variables relationship in ZT.

• Edit option for Var Extractor patterns: - ZT users can now modify the extractors so that they don’t need to delete the variables and recreate them again when the extractor pattern changes.

• Support Occurrence all, Save Length and Save Offset for Var extractors:

  • The Occurrence = ALL option in the extractors will extract all the occurrences out, from which the user can (1) create multiple variables (2) count the occurrence.

  • SaveLen Example: When used SaveLen = 5 and the captured value is Elephant, the final var value will become “Eleph” (only 5 characters).

  • SaveOffset Example: When used SaveOffset = 2, and the captured value is Elephant, the final value will become “Ephant” (2 characters, starting from the 2nd position, will be ignored).

• Text Compare Utility for the Record and Replay Analyse Screen: - This feature highlights the differences between the recorded and replayed data (both requests and responses data)

• Support ZT Amazon Web Services (AWS) images for Job Controller and Exec Agents on Stockholm and Paris.

• Incorporated 2 new recorder plugins for auto correlate variables based on left and right boundary pattern; one general edition and the other is wildcard edition.

Bug fixes/improvements Introduced in 5.5X:

• Changed the filtering of CSS and JavaScript on the recorded session in a way that it won’t filter out the JSON requests.

• ZT users can now extract variables by using the multiline left and right boundaries.

• Trimmed the rows from the replay result which was not executed due to a failure and also automatically scrolled down to the item where the failure happened.

• Solved a bug related to the break condition for the URL loops in case of parallel URLs.

• Fixed a bug related to web socket when payload length is more than 65,535.

• Improved processing the recorded response content, so that the content above 1 MB in size, ZT won’t automatically display the form parameters and hyperlinks in the item details page for extraction, the user must use the other ways of extraction (like a boundary or a regex pattern).