We are thrilled to announce the latest release of OpenText LoadRunner Professional CE 24.3. This release is packed with new features and improvements designed to enhance your performance testing experience and keep our position as market leader

The team has once again delivered a superb release with many exciting features and customer driven enhancements.
With each release, our goal is to demonstrate the genuine value of our customers’ investments. This time, we’ve crafted a truly compelling release, motivating customers to adopt this version and leverage its outstanding new features which include protocol updates, integrations and automation, and better self-troubleshooting.

The graphic below shows the release features in a snapshot:

Let’s dive deeper into more of the features!

LoadRunner TruClient 2.0 (technical preview)

This new protocol is the evolution of TruClient for browser driven testing and it reduces the need for complex scripting. With TruClient 2.0, you can accurately track end-user experience and metrics, and you don’t need to wait on us to release updates, since this protocol is browser decoupled. You can still use your choice of browser and satisfy any security requirements. TruClient 2.0 is fully cross platform with Linux support which helps you to reduce your footprint and your TCO by reducing managed infrastructure. Of course, we know you still use TruClient 1.0, so please note that we created a migration utility to re-use those assets.

Protocols and infrastructure

For the Web protocol we introduced the Chrome Extension for web recording integration.

Enhancements include, 64bit replay support, support for CNG Certificate format, and IP Selecting strategy in Recording. For infrastructure we invested in VTS reverse proxy forwarding by application name.

On the protocols level, we introduced another new protocol to support financial transactions that use the ISO 8583 protocol (ATMs and POS). Users can also enjoy Oracle® Web Correlation updates, Oracle® 12C support, and SAP® GUI version 8 support (32 and 64 bit). 

LoadRunner detect is back!

We have listened to our customers who have made enhancement requests for us to revamp, modernize and productize this tool.
So the wait is over!

This tool will bring multiple benefits to our customers which will include:

• Enable our customers with better diagnostics
• Provide customer support with tools to collect better diagnostics and logs
• Ability to email collected reports
• Faster root cause analysis
• Fully configurable and bundle linked to 3rd party troubleshooting tools
• Collects system information
• Highlights settings to be reviewed
• Comprehensive report on installed LoadRunner products & installation paths
• Reports on protocols and runtime settings be used
  

AppDynamics APM 

We are super excited to announce that we have continued our investment into providing customers with APM integrations to allow them to get full coverage into their DevOps tool chains.This time around we have integrated into AppDynamics. These new set of features will allow for faster root cause analysis and will increase the visibility of performance tests within an organization.

AWS CloudWatch support
We have continued to invest in direct customer driven enhancement features by extending the integrations available to our customers.
In this release we have added the capability to send performance data to AWS CloudWatch. This feature means that within AWS CloudWatch you can now retrieve metrics during a load test. This will allow for faster root cause analysis whilst increasing the visibility of performance tests within your organization and facilitating your observability needs.

The additional benefits of this is that within AWS you have the ability to search & filter, the ability to visualize and export data from the AWS console as well as make use of the AWS alarms services.

Accessibility improvements
Accessibility is a priority for us. In this release, we’ve made several accessibility improvements to ensure that LoadRunner Professional is user-friendly for everyone and meets the regulatory guidelines of the modern way of working. 

New command line option
Continued investment in customer driven enhancement requests where we have enriched the command line options available to our customers. The new feature will provide additional automation capabilities for our customer and allow seamless integration into their continuous integration pipeline. 

We can’t wait for you to try out these new features and improvements. We’re committed to continuously enhancing OpenText LoadRunner Professional to meet your performance testing needs. Stay tuned for more updates!
In in the interim, we encourage you to review our public backlog, vote on what’s important to you and log your own feature requests. Visit the Idea Exchange.

For more details on the release updates, please check the OpenText LoadRunner Professional What’s New page.

Have technical questions? Visit the Open Text LoadRunner Professional Discussions forum. 

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