4 out of 8 following enhancements were privately requested by our customers, and we thank them for helping make StresStimulus a better performance tool. 1. Expanding extractor scope to parse response headers.

UI layout and objects. 1. The Test Case Tree is movable to Fiddlers grid's position. This UI upgrade substantially expands StresStimulus screen real estate and simplifies navigation through test configuration options.

Distributed testing allows spreading load generators across multiple machines running Load Agents, which operate under the management of a Controller.

09/10/12 Update: v2. 0 went on sale today. It can be downloaded from here. StresStimulus V2. 0 public beta was released today. It introduces the Enterprise edition along with multiple enhancements in the Pro edition.

In its today's review of v2. 0, Tools Journal noted that "StresStimulus has been on the fast track to growth, adding on features and increasing its customer base". The article noted "the commitment of the StresStimulus team to make the tool better with each and every release".

All features listed in this part are available exclusively in the Enterprise edition. 1. Creating multiple Test Cases. Unlike the Pro edition that supports only one Test Case, in the Enterprise edition, you can add more test cases using one of these methods.

1. Creating multiple free format parameters. Sometimes a test case should have similar parameters defined for multiple requests. In the previous versions, every parameter was created individually using the Parameterization Editor. In v2.

The following new features are included in the August Update of v1. 0, released today. 1. Support for Windows Integrated authentication. NTLM / Kerberos authentication support using single user credentials is added. This feature was requested in the "401 Unauthorized Issue" post. 2.

Released today v0. 9 update includes the following enhancements:. Added configurable HTML report. The report can be printed or emailed. Added Test Description field, printable on the report. Added number of Page Timeouts on the Summary report.

Several features are added to enhance setting and configuring test cases. 1. More Page Settings. Added a number of columns in the Page Settings grid. Added support for page response time goal. The table below describes all Page Settings grid's columns.