StresStimulus 4.6 was launched today. The focus of this
version is on test visualization, extending support for new lines of Enterprise
products, and integration with other systems. We added Hex and Web views,
visual replay of traversing test cases, and webpage screenshots on test
reports. Dynamics CRM recorded scenarios are now supported universally. Visual
Studio users can load tests applications that were untestable before by
importing their StresStimulus script. Here's a full list of new features and
enhancements
Easier Test
configuration
1.
Hex
View in Session Inspector. You
can now view the request and response inspector in hex view, which is useful if
the response is binary. 
2.
Quick
find an extractor by a parameter through visualization. For any parameter, select Show on
Extractor Tree, to display its parent extractor.
3.
Excluded
Hosts List. Now you can have
not only full host names, but also a host name with wildcards.
4.
Excluded
Content Type List. Now you can have
not only the complete content type, but also a content type with
wildcards.
5.
Autocorrelation of
applications using Bearer Token Authentication.
6.
Dataset
Ranges. You can now
specify a range of the dataset you want to use for your test run. This is
useful when you must use unique records from a dataset for every test
run.
7.
The
Set-Cookie option allows to manually parameterize cookies. This is necessary in some rare cases
when cookies are set by client logic. Generally, cookie correlation is handled
by StresStimulus automatically.
8.
When verifying an
extractor In the Create Extractor dialog, the extracted section of the response
is highlighted to provide visualization of the the extraction rule. In the
previous versions, such visualizations did not work when complex encoding
schemes were used In responses. Now this limitation is removed.
9.
When recording a
scenario in a non-browser or mobile app, the option to "group request into
pages" was disabled as webpages are likely to not exist. Transactions
should be used instead of pages in such applications.
10.
Search
Variations. Now you can search
for encoded/decoded variations of a string. This can help you find a string
that can be encoded with special characters using encoding methods such as URL
encoding, HTML encoding, HEX escape encoding. To do so, make sure the Search
Variations box is checked in the Find Sessions Dialogue.
11.
Disable
Extractors. You can now
temporarily disable an extractor (created manually or by autocorrelation) to
check if it is really necessary.
12.
VU
distribution between test cases . You can review and optionally modify VU
distribution between test cases before starting a test.
Better Test Case
Visualization
13.
Web
View in Session Inspector. You
can now view the request and response inspector in web view.
14.
Web
View in the Compare Sessions Inspector. You can compare screenshots captured during records and
verify. This helps to quickly pinpoint the differences or view errors.
15.
Visual
replay of webpage navigation during the verify. During verify, the test case is replayed
at a slower pace to give user a chance to preview succession of web pages
appearing in the web view. In the previous versions, this feature was available
only in the fiddler add-on version. now this feature available in the
standalone version as well.
16.
Page
screenshot on the test reports. now you can displays the page screenshot on Page subreport
- Summary View
17.
12
new timers for every session. The timers are now available for every session to gauge
performance of various events including DNS lookup time, initial connection,
SSL, time for sending and receiving requests and responses. It can be accessed
through in the inspector toolbar.
18.
Verify
Description. Now you can add
a description for each verify run so that you can keep track of the changes you
make to your test case between verifys. The description will also show the time
and the test case you verified.
19.
Test
case recording time-stamp. A
new property Recorded On is added to the test case. It displays the date and
time when the test case was recorded.
More Realistic
Emulation
20.
Substantially
expanded the set of supported Web clients. It includes many more web browsers, smart phones and
tablets.
21.
Substantially
expanded the set of supported network types. It includes Wireless, mobile and with many more connection
types.
22.
User
Groups. Now you can
assign VUs to certain user groups for use in test cases that require server
authentication. This is useful to differentiate between regular VUs and those
whose credentials grant them higher permissions. 
23.
More
accurate page break down. In
the previous versions, some Ajax requests could be false-positives for a new
page. For example, requests triggered by a mouse over or drop-down actions
could potentially create new pages. In the current version, only requests
triggered by a click or "Enter" create a page.
24.
More
flexibility when inserting objects on the test case tree. Now you can insert objects before or
after the selected point.
Advanced Proxy and
Encryption
25.
Added support for TLS
1.1 and TLS 1.2 secure / encryption protocols. In the previous versions, only
SSL and TLS 1.0 were supported.
26.
HTTPS
scenarios on mobile devices. Now you can record Test scenarios on all mobile devices
via HTTPS in the Standalone version. This became possible because of
implementing an HTTP listener that enables downloading StresStimulus root
certificate via wireless connection.
27.
Now StresStimulus
automatically detects if your proxy settings must be configured manually.
28.
Overriding
system proxy settings. If
your company uses a system proxy, now you can configure the gateway proxy
settings in case the system proxy cannot chain automatically. You can also
bypass it.
Integration with Other
Solutions
29.
Web
Test Script Generator for Visual Studio. Now you can export your test case to Visual Studio's
".webtest" format after StresStimulus automatically creates missing
parameters.
30.
Full
fiddler compatibility. This
version of StresStimulus is now fully compatible with the latest versions of
Fiddler.
Other Improvements
31.
Free
version with up to 250 VUs in a standalone StresStimulus version. Previously the free version was available only
in the Fiddler add-on version.
32.
Improved
reliability of screenshots. In
the previous versions, some pages missed screenshots. In this version, every
page will have a screenshot taken at the time when the user clicks to request
the next page.
33.
Improved search
reliability in all trees and inspectors by trimming leading and trailing spaces
and removing special characters that are added when pasting from the clipboard.
34.
Line Marking in the
"Find All" command in the script editor is fixed.
35.
Replay
Sessions. Now you can replay
sessions to view the server's response to ensure the requests were correctly
constructed and if the server returns the expected response.
36.
Request
Composer. Now
you can create HTTP(S) GET or POST requests manually without recording a test
scenario. This is especially helpful for performance testing of a restful
API