• SQL Injection Testing

Have you verified that your API isn't vulnerable to a SQL injection attack? The API Test Maker now lets you create SQL injection tests. Confirm that each endpoint in your API is safe.

 

• Load Report was Deprecated

You can still find all the good stuff in the Timeline Report:

 

• Choose your preferred Interval from the top left corner of the report

• The GeoMean measurement selector can be chosen for the following KPIs: Response Time, Latency and Bytes

 

• Disable Legacy API Keys Yourself

 

As announced in our March 28 release, we will be deprecating existing API keys and moving to a new model that incorporates a key + secret and support for expiration dates to make them more secure. To make the upcoming deprecation process of the legacy API keys smoother, we added a new ability. Now, each user can disable their own API key.

 

Disabling Legacy API Keys can also be enforced by the account Admin. Just go to “General Settings” under the account settings.

 

• Apache JMeterTM Version Automatically Detected

 

We updated the Apache JMeter™ version choosing mechanism in BlazeMeter. From now on, the default version will be “Auto Detect”. This means BlazeMeter will automatically choose an Apache JMeter™ version according to your script. If you choose to, you can override that version by selecting a different version from the dropdown menu, just like before.

 

• UI Upgrades

 

As part of our continuous effort to improve user experience, we updated the button you can use to invite users to collaborate. It now looks like this:

 

• Easier Account Upgrade

 

If you wish to upgrade your account, it is now easier than ever:

• Do you have multiple workspaces? We now support aggregated reporting. We added a consolidated Usage Report at the account level.

 

• Catch up with our most recent product changes right from within the app through the Change Log link under the Help menu.

 

• Need to upgrade your subscription? You can easily use our In-App purchase ability from the billing section in the settings.

 

• If you haven’t checked out our V4 APIs, be sure to take a look in the new, improved API explorer. We’ve enhanced descriptions and made the explorer much faster when expanding the operations list for each API.

 

• Account administrators can now add and remove workspaces in the settings screen. Please note that having additional workspaces depends on your account subscription.

In addition to many UI improvements, the following improvements and changes have been made:

 

• Test history UI changes -
  • Running tests are displayed on top, sorted chronologically by the test initiation time with the latest test presented first, and marked with a green button
  • Subsequently, the ended tests are displayed, sorted chronologically by the time the test ended, with the latest end time presented first
  • The date and time each test began (running tests) or ended, is displayed next to the test configuration details

 

• Performance improvements in large scale tests:
  • Engines are now issued together, leading to shorter time to test commencement
  • Better support and performance for multiple viewers

• Ability to pause ramp up, and later resume ramping users while test is running.
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• Added packet-loss ratio to network emulation controls, to better support mobile application testing:

 

 

• Added ability to select a specific time span for the aggregate and error reports. Drag sliders to focus on a key period or eliminate ramp-up/ramp-down periods.

 

•  Added scenario and location filters to timeline report to provide finer granularity of data on multi-test and multi-geo tests.

 

 

• New Relic data now appears directly on the Timeline Report to support visual correlation with test data.  This eliminates the need to switch tabs to see New Relic data during tests.
• Added ability to create Taurus tests from the Web UI:

 

 

• Added new geo-locations:

• • All MS Azure locations (initially as beta)
  • AWS: South Korea, Germany
• New locations drop-down list (shows which location has dedicated IP addresses available)

 

 

• Multi-tests can now be duplicated in a single operation.
• Complete refactor of 'original test configuration' tab in the report screen, based on user feedback.
• New view for billing-info page

 

• For clients who have chosen server-hour billing, the usage report now shows consumed and remaining server-hours instead of test credits consumed. 

 

• Enhanced Organization Support
  • Organization usage report - now organization administrators can view the subscription usage of the entire organization.
  • Added support for user to manage multiple organizations.
  • Tests can now be moved between organizations.
  • Consistent organization context switching: switching organizations now updates all drop-down menus, lists and selectors to reflect the chosen organization.
  • Added 'start collaborate' button in app top header to introduce users to Organizations capability and make creating organizations easy:

 

• Adding support for Gravatar (displays your avatar image from gravatar.com if login email registered in a gravatar.com account)
• Separation of workspace settings and user settings.
  • Workspace settings are on a dedicated "Settings" tab alongside Dashboard and Project tabs:
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• User settings are now an overlay dialog, launched from by choosing "My Settings" in the top-right navigation menu:

 

 

' to ease navigation via browser history.

• New drop-down list in top header for 'recent projects' – chose a project or select "Show all projects" to display a full-page list.
• Many screens now have unique and descriptive '
• Java 8 - which supports SSL TLS 1.2 (This is new standard for web servers. Many tests previously failed due to the lack of SSL TLS 1.2).

[Mock Services] One-click access to the matched transaction from Inspection view

The Inspection view is an essential tool to figure out which network traffic was matched by your Mock Service, and which was not. If the traffic was matched, it is always important to know which transaction was responsible for that match, and you may want to review its matching rules. Now this is easier than ever because the matching transaction ID is clickable, and when clicked, it directly opens the transaction definition in a pop-up dialog. 

[Mock Services] Mock asynchronous webhook calls

Do external dependencies give you trouble when testing? Create a Mock Service for them! Do these dependencies send asynchronous webhook calls? Mock them as well! BlazeMeter Mock Services now support the ability to make asynchronous HTTP requests on their own to fully simulate webhook flows. Just go to the definition of your transaction and create a new webhook, which is the first of our newly introduced Transaction Processing Actions.

[Test Data] New built-in seedlists available

BlazeMeter Test Data helps you manage test data and generate new test data synthetically as needed. One of the ways that BlazeMeter is used for generating realistically looking data is to use built-in seedlists. Seedlists contain sample first names, addresses, country names, ... Now, we are extending our repertoire of more than 50 seedlists by the following new ones: US banks, US manufacturer companies, US retail companies, S&P500 companies, US states, and colors. Check out more details in the BlazeMeter Guide.

[JMeter] Fixed Parallel controller plugin for JMeter versions > 5.2

Parallel controller plugin now compatible with latest versions of JMeter.

Issue link: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64618

[GUI Functional testing] Location and browsers configuration is now available on a Test Suite level

After grouping individual GUI Functional tests into a Test Suite you may want to change location and browsers on a Test Suite level, so that all of the tests inside a Test Suite are executed on the same location and browsers. Previously, you would change location and browsers for each of the tests in a Suite.

Setting a location and browsers for a Test Suite will not affect individual test configuration. In other words, you may have different location and browsers set on individual test level and on Test Suite level.

[GUI Functional testing] New browser versions now available 

We’ve added new browser versions including Chrome version 90, and Firefox version 88 - these versions are set as default.

[API Monitoring] Secrets Management at the Bucket Level

We have enhanced the API Monitoring Secrets Management feature to also support secrets at the bucket level. Each bucket can now have secrets that are not shared with other buckets. Secrets specified at a bucket level can only be used by Tests in that bucket. 

Secrets specified at the team level can continue to be used by Tests in all buckets. Check out the docs to learn more. Requires a qualifying plan.

 

[API Monitoring] Test Notifications now support Emails to Distribution Lists or Non-Member Emails

We have enhanced email notifications for API Monitoring Tests to also support sending notifications to email distribution lists or non-member emails. 

First the owner of a team must specify a whitelist of email domains (e.g. mycompany.com,xyz.com) in the Team Settings and Usage page. This ensures that only emails that belong to admin-approved domains can be added to buckets to receive test notifications.

Bucket owners can navigate to the Bucket Settings page and add one or more distribution lists or non-member emails that can then be used by every API Test within that bucket.

The Email Notifications section of each API Test in the bucket will display all the distribution lists or non-member emails specified for that bucket. Test owners can select one or more of these emails or distribution lists to be notified.

Check out the docs to learn more. Requires a qualifying plan. Contact Sales to add Custom Email Notifications to your account.

 

[Mock Services] Search transaction by ID

Searching for a particular Mock Services transaction is a very common task. You need to find the right one in order to edit its response, and add it to your running Mock Service, or to double-check whether it is part of your Mock Service template or not.

Up until today, you could only search transactions by name or tag. However, a transaction name could be long and complex and the tags may not be unique. On the other hand, a transaction ID is unique and short. BlazeMeter now enables you to search transactions by transaction ID.

[Test Data Management] Share test data models within workspace

Test data models defined in Scriptless tests are now re-usable between Scriptless tests and no longer tied to one particular test. With the ability to save and open the test data model, you can now save the test data model in your workspace and load it into a different test within the same workspace.

[Test Data Management] Export/Import test data models

You can now export test data models into files, store them in an external system and let other teams import them into their workspaces.

 

[Test Data Management] Download generated data as CSV file

Every test data model can be now downloaded as a CSV file, even before the test is executed. You can review generated data in a CSV file, make adjustments where needed, or use this CSV file as test data input for your other tests.

[Test Data Management] Integration with Broadcom Test Data Manager Find & Reserve feature

In many cases, test data may be already seeded in a database within your test environment. You can now use the integration with Broadcom Test Data Manager (TDM). Find & Reserve models defined in your TDM can be linked to BlazeMeter Scriptless tests including the ability to provide specific search query criteria to narrow down your test data sets. Prior to the test execution, the BlazeMeter Scriptless test retrieves test data from the database via TDM according to the Find & Reserve model and criteria specification.

• BlazeMeter adds support for JMeter 3.0!

• Usage report available: Now you can clearly view your test run history on a graph and export it in CSV format for further analysis

• Updated usability on the multi-test configuration page. Now you can:

  • Easily view how many scenarios will run, their duration, geo-locations and names

  • Easily view each scenario’s name, type, geo-location, number of virtual users and duration

 

 

In-app help, tutorials, idea submission, support tickets & more

 

Now you can view context-sensitive help, search our knowledge-base and more without ever leaving the app.  Just click the green HELP CENTER tab on the right to get started:

 

 

Have an idea? Let us know!

 

We’d like to hear your voice! Want to suggest an idea for a new feature? Just click the Feature Request button in the new Help Center sidebar.

 

 

Everyone can submit ideas. Paid customers can also search, vote-up and subscribe to be notified of comments and status changes from within our new ideas portal. Learn more about the Ideas portal and your opportunity to impact our roadmap here.

 

Filter previous tests runs in the Test History page

 

Failure Criteria filtering is now available on both the Dashboard and individual Test History pages. The default view shows “All” and you can filter by “Passed”, “Failed” or “Not Set”:

 

New Cloud Location: Google Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

We continue to expand our geographic diversity.  Recently we doubled our Azure locations and this week we are adding Google’s Sao Paulo, Brazil location. You can always see the full list by viewing the locations drop-down in an test create/edit screen.

  BlazeMeter Jenkins Plugin updated

 

The Jenkins plugin for BlazeMeter is now workspace aware: select a workspace during job configuration to fetch tests specific to that workspace.  We’ve also added average throughput and 90% response time to the metrics in the aggregate report.

 

Details and previous updates in the plugin changelog on github.