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Elevate your performance engineering with OpenText™︎ Enterprise Performance Engineering CE 25.1!

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Ready to elevate your performance engineering with speed and simplicity? The new OpenTextTm Enterprise Performance Engineering CE 25.1 brings exciting benefits and enhanced features. Take this opportunity to drive success for yourself, your teams, and your business!

In our ongoing commitment to creating accessible technologies and products, several pages, such as the login screens, now conform to accessibility standards and guidelines. Additionally, the user login page has been split into two distinct phases to simplify the login process and enhance the user experience. You can now also show the contents of JMeter script .csv files in the Script Details tab, making it easier to manage and review your scripts.

OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering now integrates with DatadogTm. This integration allows you to set up the Datadog monitor and view the collected data in the online and offline test results and in Analysis graphs, providing deeper insights into your performance tests.

For those using cloud load generators, the latest release includes additions to the REST API that enable you to add a custom prefix to Azure and Amazon host templates, allowing for the customization of virtual machine names. This feature provides greater flexibility and control over your cloud resources.

Our continues investment in Kubernetes will allow you to define global limits for memory, CPU, and the number of pods. Setting these capacity limits can enhance inherent elasticity for Kubernetes by providing better control over resource allocation. When using a Kubernetes orchestrator with Dockerized host images, you can specify security settings for all containers in the pod using the runAsGroup and fsgroup settings. Additionally, external .jar files and plugins can be zipped and uploaded along with JMeter scripts to load generators, when running tests. The REST API has also been enhanced to allow you to manage host attributes and locations for automatch load generators.

Modernization efforts include upgrading the application server backend and services to .NET 8, enhancing security and functionality. The system has also migrated to the native Oracle provider to ensure better integration with the Oracle database for those using it. This change impacts the upgrade process in Oracle-based environments, so please check the documentation for more details.

The new Virtual User Generator (VuGen) integration with OpenTelemetry provides observability support, enabling you to push telemetry data to an OpenTelemetry Collector. Additionally, VuGen now supports encryption in Vuser scripts using FIPS-compliant AES-256 encryption, ensuring your data remains secure. Another exciting update is the integration with AWS Secrets Manager, which allows you to retrieve secrets such as authentication credentials for your scripts directly from the AWS service.

Our most important feature, TruClient 2.0, the evolution of the market-leading TruClient for browser-driven testing, is now generally available (GA).

This new protocol adds several new capabilities, including decoupling the embedded browser, Linux Load Generator support, and enhanced security. You can now use a Linux Ubuntu load generator on Docker, utilize IP spoofing and the TC.getUserIP() function on Windows, and handle non-standard file uploads. The global function library is available for both Windows and Linux Ubuntu. Additionally, you can convert TruClient - Web scripts to TruClient 2.0 - Web format using the TruClient script converter.

Our regular TruClient browser upgrades are still here, and now TruClient Browser is now equivalent to Firefox version 130, and TruClient scripts support Chromium browser version 129. These updates ensure compatibility with the latest browser versions, enhancing your testing capabilities.

DevWeb has introduced several new features to improve your scripting experience. When recording HAR files with the Offline Script Generator, you can now add time to web requests, providing control over the timeframe for recorded requests. We also have an improved correlation detection for script generation that enhances the accuracy of your scripts. DevWeb now supports IPv6 addresses, allowing you to use the getIPList function to return IPs for version 4, 6, or both. You can also configure the WebSocket buffer to be generated as a function instead of a const string and choose whether to use canonical form for HTTP request headers in a script.

As an ongoing process of protocol modernization, these are the protocols that now support 64-bit: Oracle-Web, Oracle NCA, SAP Web, RDP, WinSock providing better performance and stability

The web_custom_request function now includes a ResponseTime attribute, supported in C and JavaScript. This metric expands performance testing capabilities, including load testing for Large Language Model (LLM) engines.

Finally, for OpenText Performance Engineering for Developers (LoadRunner Developer), when using ScalUP (previously ScaLRD) with OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise), you can now define host attributes for automatic host selection. Additionally, you can define alternative scenario.yml files to use for script replay by passing the location of the alternative file from the command line.

Embrace these new features and enhancements to drive success in your performance engineering projects. Upgrade to OpenTextTm Enterprise Performance Engineering CE 25.1 today and experience the difference!

For more details on the release updates, please check the OpenTextTm Enterprise Performance Engineering What’s New page.

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