What We Recently Released

Neoload continues to innovate with expanded protocol support, infrastructure options, and intelligent automation capabilities to meet the evolving needs of enterprise performance testing.

With the release of Neoload 2024.3 users can use Remote Terminal Emulator (RTE) to easily design, execute, and maintain performance tests for legacy  terminal-based applications, such as TN3270, and VT420, with an intuitive, low-code/no-code recorder. RTE connects and simulates users and actions, which is essential for performance testing of critical applications.

In addition, users can now harness AWS cloud zones within NeoLoad Web, previously available only in the desktop client. This enables them to generate test loads using Neoload Cloud resources directly in AWS environments, scaling their performance testing efforts rapidly without the need to invest in on-premises hardware. Furthermore, this release enables the availability of Neoload Cloud resources in 21 new geographical zones, primarily in the Middle East region.

This release also includes the following:

• Client certificate authentication for RealBrowser
• Tech preview of AI-powered Augmented Analysis - automated detection of performance issues and interpretation of results

What’s Next?

The following areas are the next key strategic focuses for Neoload:  

• Next-generation Neoload Web – a new design that provides an intuitive experience that is easy to navigate and use, enabling users to be more productive.
• SAP - Increasing the breadth of SAP protocols, applications, and use-cases that can be tested, e.g. with Intermediate Document Interface (iDOC), Remote Function Call (RFC) and Cloud ALM integration
• AI-powered Augmented Analysis - Time-saving analysis that automates the identification and notification of potential performance issues. Automated Analysis will include monitoring metrics and automated baselining of regression tests with anomaly detection across runs.
• Enterprise Testing - Scale and security enhancements for Enterprise customers, e.g. with RTE support for TN5250, variables stored in a secure vault, on-prem Neoload SSO login, and segregation of users into projects

Looking Ahead

• Here are additional areas you can expect to see in the near future for NeoLoad: One Platform - Leveraging capabilities across the Tricentis portfolio to boost user productivity, e.g. with Tosca Cloud and Testim test re-use integrations, and Neoload Web test authoring.
• Microservice and Continuous Integration Testing - Enabling the testing of modern microservice applications by Product Teams, e.g. with gRPC testing and Sealights integration 

Our longer-term plan is to apply AI across the whole performance engineering lifecycle. Current areas of investigation are:

• Authoring and design – automatic test creation by leveraging existing functional and performance test assets, generating realistic and comprehensive test scenarios by analyzing user-behavior, and application code, and self-healing tests that automatically detect and repair broken tests caused by changes in the application.  
• Execution – continuous feedback to dynamically adjust test scenarios for more efficient testing.
• Analysis – root-cause analysis across vast datasets (logs, metrics, traces) to pinpoint the root-cause of performance issues with precision, and longitudinal analysis to detect early warning signs of degradation, and to proactively address emerging issues.