1. The Navigation Tree is expanded. This allows avoiding vertical scrolling and clicks to expand / collapse various sections of the tool. The Navigation Tree now shows a clear picture of StresStimulus top-to-bottom workflow, that makesload testing even easier. 2.

Released today, V2. 5 beta update added the following features and enhancements:. 1. Agent can run as Windows service with much higher performance. An agent now can not only run as a Windows application, but also as a Windows service.

1. Transactions. A transaction is a custom set of consecutive requests. It is used to determine performance characteristics of a specific business transaction that includes several user actions. 2. Transaction Details.

These release notes include descriptions of the new features and enhancements added in the last several builds, issued after update #3. This update will be the last one before the final release scheduled for next week. 1. Search Test Case Tree by request / response content.

Released today, V2. 5 beta update #2 added the following features and enhancements:. 1. XPath extractors. New extractor type allows extracting a value from an XML response, using XPath query. This can be especially helpful in load testing web services.

1. The Graph sample rates limit is lowered to 1 second. The communication between a controller and agents was substantially optimized. Now the graph sample rate and the agent sample rate is configured separately.

01/02/13 Update: v2. 5 went on sale today. It can be downloaded from here. StresStimulus V2. 5 public beta, released today, added more than two dozen new features and enhancements. It also substantially upgraded the user interface. While 2. 0 introduced the Enterprise Edition, 2.

Today, TechNet magazine reviewed StresStimulus in its monthly Toolbox column. It concluded that "It could save you a few headaches, wasted time and money. ". Read the full article here: http://technet. microsoft. com/en-us/magazine/jj682077. aspx.

As we announced last week, Stimulus Technology will release a standalone version of StresStimulus to give our customers a choice of a Fiddler - integrated or standalone version at no additional cost. Today we would like to share more details about this development.

Test Case: Navigating from objects to other UI elements 1. Navigating from an extractor to the Test Case Tree. Extractor Grid displays all extractors in the test case.