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Introducing OpenText™︎ Professional Performance Engineering CE 25.1

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A very happy new year to you from me and the Performance Engineering product team here at OpenText.
We hope you had a wonderful start to 2025!

We are thrilled to announce the release of the latest version of OpenTextTm Professional Performance Engineering CE 25.1, designed to revolutionize performance testing with cutting-edge features and enhanced capabilities. This version introduces TruClient 2.0 with full general availability (GA), improved observability capabilities, many protocol updates, seamless integrations with modern CI/CD pipelines, and a new user interfaces to streamline your user experiences.  

Below you will find some of the features and benefits from this release:

Let’s dive deeper into more of the features!

Product rebranded
All of the LoadRunner product family has now been renamed. For full information please go read the blog post.
The products have been rebranded and fully incorporated into the OpenText family and development cycles. This means that we will continue to fully invest and continue to bring you the best-in-class features.

TruClient 2.0 is now full general availability (GA)

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 total cost of ownership 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. So, all your historical assets can be fully migrated to the new version, allowing you to take advantage of all these great new benefits.

Splunk Tm APM Bi-directional

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 the Splunk platform. These new set of features will allow for faster root cause analysis and will increase the visibility of performance tests within an organization. We have implemented a full bi-directional feed so that you can not only see the measurement streamed from your observability platform into OpenText Professional Performance Engineering online charts and analysis, but we now push transactional data and measurements to Splunk. This capability allows DevOps teams to be fully aware of the performance test running and allows them to observe from their tool of choice whilst also ensuring that any incidents can be responded to quickly as well as workflows and alerts being supported.

*Screen above shows your performance engnieering test snapshot including script name and scenario run data.

*Screen above shows your performance engnieering test run charts displayed in Splunk console.

Test your LLM server
With the rise of AI and large language model deployments we have now added the capability to test your LLM server. In this release we have created a new LLM AI Specific API in Web/HTTP Protocol that will provide enhanced functionality when testing LLMs and will include new LLM specific monitors as well.  This will support requests from customers to test applications that have LLM functionality (ChatGPT and Gemini) built in. The benefit is that with this LLM support, customer's will have the unique ability to determine if their application performance is being affected by a LLM service or their own code.

Sample script:

Using the new API, you can save the response time to a user specified parameter. This response time can be used to tell the time difference between request sent and response is received.

It is full cross platform with support for both Windows & Linux, available in the languages C & JavaScript. You also have dedicated monitors to capture and store the performance metrics such as Input processing rate(tokens/s) and Decoding rate(tokens/s).

*Screen above shows your LLM test measurements collected and displayed in the online charts during runtime but the measurements will also be available post execution in the analysis file.

Observability support
In this release our customers will see some new options in the controller as highlighted below:

   

We now offer the ability to send trace headers during a load test. These headers can then be ingested on any observability platform that adheres to the open telemetry standards.
This new capability extends the integration options for customers whilst offering a host of benefits such as:

  • Improved observability
  • Standardization and interoperability
  • Reduced development overhead
  • Vendor agnostic and community driven
  • Future-proofing observability solutions

New command line option
You have spoken, and we have listened to your feedback in the need for more capabilities in test automation.
In this release we have updated our command line interface to expand on recently added features so that we can support the ‘SilentMode’ parameter to ensure your scripts on the controller can run in silent mode ensuring that you don’t need to keep an interactive session alive. The new feature will provide additional automation capabilities for our customer and allow seamless integration into your continuous integration pipeline.

Monitoring credentials manager
We have added a new monitoring profile management feature into the controller.
This will allow you to store APM connections you use as part of your performance workflow. You can maintain, store, and edit any external connection data you need to allow quicker time to test.
This user-friendly interface provides you with the ability to visualize and export data between controllers. Don’t worry about security – we have you covered. The connections are fully encrypted and can be password protected when sharing this sensitive data between controllers!

*Screen above shows the monitoring credentials manager listing the stored profiles on the controller.

Accessibility improvements
We live in a digital age where we are all digital citizens, and we need to adhere to the ever-evolving accessibility requirements demanded by our customers and governments. So, in this release we have once again invested to ensure that our products are fully compliant with any standardization. Many of these enhancements and updates are under the hood but you can be sure that we can meet the needs of a diverse workforce and any legislated requirements.
Accessibility is a priority for us!

Protocols and infrastructure
In our commitment to stay ahead of technological advancements and to meet the evolving needs of our customers, we have once again heavily invested in our protocol and infrastructure stack.

  • Citrix LTSR 2402 support has been implemented to allow you to update and modernise your virtualization and remote desktop platforms.
  • Continued investment in our SAP support means that we have made several enhancements including support for SAP Web 64bit.
  • The remote desktop protocol (RDP) has now been tested and validated on 64bit platforms.
  • Support for Ubuntu 2024.04 is now available.
  • Support for Windows 11 24H2.
  • The Winsock protocol is now supported on 64bit platforms.
  • Multiple customer driven enhancements to our Web and DevWeb protocols.
  • As with every release we have made browser updates to TruClient1.0 to support chrome version 129 and TruClient Browser version 130
  • We have depreciated the Silk replay capabilities in this release. 

We can’t wait for you to try out these new features and improvements. We’re committed to continuously enhancing to meet your performance testing needs. Stay tuned for more updates later in the year. 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.

Useful links

  • For more details on the release updates, please check the OpenText Professional Performance Engineering What’s New page.
  • Have technical questions? Visit the Discussions forum or log a support ticket and one of our engineers will be available to assist.
  • Keep up with the latest Tips/News/Events our blogs.

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