[General] Refill Credits

If you are in a Basic or a Pro plan, you might have found yourself running out of credits before the end of your subscription while you still need to continue testing. Now, you no longer need to reach out to BlazeMeter support to renew your subscription. Instead, we’ve added the option to renew existing subscription from the Billing page:

The renew option is available any time and is effective immediately. Upon renewal, your credit balance will be rolled over, so that you can renew early without losing your credits. 

 

Locations Now Filtered By Type-Ahead

 

Find a particular location faster, or filter the list to find locations with something in common by typing in the drop-down bar.  Here we typed “lon” to quickly see which providers are supported in London:

 

Report Buttons Tidied Up → Icons

 

We cleaned up the menu at top right of each report where you previously saw these six buttons:

 

The “Compare” and “Summary” buttons are still there, but we have converted “Accessibility,” “Share,” “Refresh” and “Delete” to icons:

[Performance] Started removing legacy JMeter versions

JMeter 3 has been removed from Blazemeter.

Now there is no such version in the “JMeter version” dropdown.

Existing tests that have JMeter 3 selected will still run, you’ll see warnings about the deprecated version usage:

 

Time zone setting for BlazeMeter UI

 

Now you can easily override or “offset” your local browser timezone setting for all time/date displays in the BlazeMeter UI.  It’s also easy to toggle this feature on or off with a click.

 

Teams collaborating across times zones asked for this feature so they could discuss time stamps in reports without having to convert times in their heads.  We are happy to provide it!

 

Navigate to: Settings > Personal > Personal Settings to set or toggle Time Zone Override:

[GUI Functional testing/Taurus] Added ability to pass browser options via YAML file

During GUI Functional testing, you may need to configure your browser for specific cases, like emulating mobile devices in the browser, or emulating web cameras and many more. This can be achieved by passing appropriate browser options/arguments, or even experimental options. The Taurus YAML file syntax now allows you to pass such options to the browser: https://gettaurus.org/docs/Selenium/#Browser-Options

[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.

New cloud location: AWS EU West (Paris)

 

Timeline tab settings now “sticky” within same report session

 

Changes made to the selected KPIs on the Timeline Report are now “sticky” within the same report viewing session.  For instance, if you switch from Timeline to Errors or Engine health and then back to Timeline, your KPI selections will remain as selected.

[GUI Functional testing] Rerun a test with the same data set 

You can manage test data and parametrize your GUI Functional Scriptless test with synthetic data, which is randomly generated each time you execute a test.

We’ve added the ability to rerun a GUI Functional test with the same data that was generated for an exact test execution.

For example, if you have a GUI Functional test that failed on a specific set of data, now you can rerun the same test with the same data set, in order to make sure your application is failing with specific data.

[GUI Functional testing] New browser versions now available 

We’ve added new browser versions including Chrome version 89, and Firefox version 86 - these versions are set as default.

 

Here’s what’s new this week:

1. API Functional Test: we’ve been busy :-)
2. Reminder: JMeter <2.13 will be deprecated April 29th
3. Usage Report now shows if run from UI, API, Jenkins, etc...
4. Bamboo plugin updated: New “BlazeMeter Test Report” tab

 

API Functional Test: we’ve been busy :-)

 

Have a look at API Functional Test.  Since our public release last sprint, we’ve been very busy:

• Import Swagger (Open API) files to create scenarios: import all verb + endpoint combinations or only selected ones
• Use test data from CSV files
• Dynamically pull file content into request body
• Add file attachments (binary files) to requests
• New request methods (PATCH, OPTIONS, HEAD, CONNECT)
• Text type assertions - define assertions without the need to know regular expression syntax
• JSONPath value assertions - assert the value found at the defined JSONPath
• Response time assertions for individual requests
• Common functions - generating random numbers or random strings for parameters in your test or base64 or URL encoding strings
• All private locations are available from the UI for API Functional Test
• Download test script from the UI (Taurus YAML)

 

Reminder: JMeter <2.13 will be deprecated April 29th

 

We will deprecate JMeter versions <2.13 on April 29th.  When we do, we’ll switch to executing these older scripts with the 2.13 engine.

 

Usage Report now shows if run from UI, API, Jenkins, etc...

 

Usage reports now include an “Execution Client Id” column so you can see at a glance whether test was run from UI, API, Taurus, Jenkins, etc...

 

Bamboo plugin updated: New “BlazeMeter Test Report” tab:

 

Jump to detailed BlazeMeter reports right from your Bamboo build dashboard with the new BlazeMeter Test Report tab.

 

Learn more about the Bamboo plugin for BlazeMeter:

• BlazeMeter Plugin to Bamboo
• BlazeMeter Bamboo Plugin on GitHub

Here’s what’s new this week:

 

1. Add a Description To Your Tests
2. Single Sign-On/SAML Enhancements
3. Dynatrace APM Now Bi-Directional (Populate Timeline Graphs)
4. API Functional Test - Swagger Import Improvements

 

Add a Description To Your Tests

 

By popular demand, test configurations now have a “description” field, where you can document the scope or purpose of your test. No more “LongTestNameTryingToTellTheWholeStory” required!

 

This feature is available in JMeter Test (new), Taurus and API Functional Test flows.

 

Single Sign-On/SAML Enhancements

 

We’ve listened to feedback from our single sign-on (SSO) customers who wanted greater control over new user accounts and no more “pile up” of new users in the default workspace.

 

1. Now you can turn off the “default” workspace, so users can only use BlazeMeter if they have been added to one or more workspaces by an admin. With this option, users who have not been assigned a workspace will get a splash screen asking them to contact the admin for access, instead of landing in a default workspace with full entitlements.
2. Want to add user accounts without depending on email invitations for users to read and respond to?  Check! Now you can create and activate accounts entirely from the admin side.

 

Dynatrace APM Now Bi-Directional (Populate Timeline Graphs)

 

Our integration with Dynatrace is now bi-directional!  You’ve always been able to send “red dye” (decorated headers) outbound to make test traffic easy to see in Dynatrace and now you can pull Dynatrace metrics inbound to visualize in Timeline Graphs. This is also the debut of Dynatrace support in our new test create (NTC) screens. We’ve made this new functionality available in both our legacy and new test create (NTC) screens.

 

 

 

Our new API Functional Test feature continues to evolve at a fast pace. This sprint we’ve enhanced the new Import swagger file feature:

 

1. Parameters are now converted to variables, so you can easily populate them with test data from a CSV file.
2. Base URL (default address) and base path (default path) are saved in global variables.
3. Now you can cancel import of swagger file mid-import if needed.

 

Look for “Import swagger file” in the (...) menu at the bottom of the Scenario list box: