Unlock Enhanced Performance Testing: JMeter and XLT
TL;DR: XLT now supports JMeter test suites, offering enhanced debugging, deeper reporting, and cost-effectiveness for JMeter …
Topic: XLT
Browsing all published articles and engineering notes categorized under XLT.
Data Science Day 2022
After a two-year break, on 18 May 2022, the 4th Data Science Day Jena took place. The Friedrich-Schiller University is hosting …
Xceptance LoadTest Goes Open Source
We have often been asked why XLT (Xceptance LoadTest) is free but not open source. Now, after considering our customers’ …
Thuringia’s Open-Source Prize for XLT
Wolfgang Tiefensee, Thuringia’s Secretary of Commerce, in conjunction with the board of directors of the IT industry network ITNet …
XLT 4.12.2 Release
Xceptance released version 4.12.2 of its load testing and test automation product Xceptance LoadTest. This is an improvement …
XLT 4.11 was released
Xceptance released version 4.11 of its load testing and test automation product Xceptance LoadTest. This is a feature release. We …
How to use the XLT Result Browser
When using XLT for test automation or load testing, a visual and browsable log of your test case steps and their results will be …
XLT - Now Available Free Of Charge
Update : Please see Xceptance LoadTest Goes Open Source for the next step in the evolution of XLT. Because it is always great to …
Firefox 57 Changes and XLT
Firefox 57 is going to deliver a fundamental change that will affect XLT Script Developer. As you might know, Mozilla decided to …
XLT 4.9 has been released
Xceptance released version 4.9 of its load testing and test automation product Xceptance LoadTest. This is primarily a 3rd party …
Release of XLT 4.8
XLT 4.8 is primarily a technology update release, but also comes with some new features. First and foremost, XLT now ships with …
Release of XLT 4.7
Summary Xceptance released version 4.7 of its load testing and test automation product Xceptance LoadTest. It features a wide …
Multi-Browser Support for Test Automation with XLT
Summary In today’s post we will discuss the steps necessary to enhance an XLT-based test suite with multi-browser support. We will …
Special Characters in Script Developer
Recently we received a support request regarding special characters in Script Developer. Perhaps other XLT users stumble across a …
Conditional Expressions in XLT
Motivation Did you ever have to create multiple versions of your test cases to accommodate small differences of your test objects? …
Our Demandware SiteGenesis Community Test Suite
Today, we are happy to announce the release of our new Demandware SiteGenesis Community Test Suite! It is a test suite for …
Xceptance released XLT 4.5
Xceptance released version 4.5 of its load testing and test automation product Xceptance LoadTest (XLT). This release enables you …
Inaugural XLT Summit in Jena
On January 19-20, 2015, Xceptance held its first XLT Summit. About thirty representatives of well-known companies from a variety …
Use XLT with Sauce Labs and BrowserStack
Sauce Labs and BrowserStack - What Are They and Why Use Them? This approach still work fine, but we came up with a much better …
XLT 4.3.2 is available
Xceptance has released version 4.3.2 of its load testing and test automation product Xceptance LoadTest. This is an improvement …
TestSuite-NoCoding - Load Testing with CSV Files
We continue to share cool things with the community of software testers and developers. Today we are announcing the availability …
Xceptance Releases XLT 4.3
Xceptance released version 4.3 of its load testing and test automation product Xceptance LoadTest. It features a wide range of …
Xceptance LoadTest 4.2.10 released
We released Xceptance LoadTest 4.2.10. It addresses four defects and is a recommended update release. Strange long delays when …
Concurrent Users - The Art of Calculation
Most of you probably know the term Concurrent User. In the context of load and performance testing, this metric is often claimed …
New AWS-AMIs in Singapore
We just made XLT 4.2.9 AMIs available at AWS-EC2 ap-southeast-1/Singapore. Here is the list of all XLT-AMIs available. Happy …
Web Drivers in XLT: Basic Access Authentication
Today’s article of our WebDrivers series deals with HTTP authentication - a topic that, at first sight, seems to be very specific …
Release Xceptance LoadTest 4.2.8
We just released a minor XLT update that brings you an improvement and a fix. Script Developer: Mouse events dispatched by SD use …
WebDrivers in XLT: Test Case Design that Compensates for Inconsistencies across WebDrivers
Still remember the first post of our article series? It talked about how you can run XLT test cases in different browsers. If …
Release Xceptance LoadTest 4.2.7
XLT 4.2.7 has been released. It delivers improvements as well as defect fixes. We recommend to upgrade as soon as possible to stay …
WebDrivers in XLT: How to Run Test Cases in Multiple Browsers
Update : Before you continue reading, here is a new version of this test suite and article: Multi-Browser-Suite for Test …
The Art of Reading Performance Test Charts
Powerful load and performance test tools don’t only retrieve pages of your website randomly with zillions of users at the …
XLT 4.3 Preview
We are looking forward to release XLT 4.3 soon. A lot of work has been invested to improve XLT and to provide a much easier way to …
HPQC and XLT - Integration Example
You have to work with HP Quality Center (HPQC), but you don’t want to execute all the test cases manually. You automated …
Test Automation for Demandware SiteGenesis with XLT
Demandware, Inc., a leading on-demand ecommerce platform provider, offers a fast and ready to use storefront implementation called …
XLT Script Developer and Firefox 16
There is an open regression in Mozilla Firefox 16 (Bug 799348) that can prevent the XLT Script Developer from working correctly. …
Availability of Xceptance LoadTest 4.2.0
XLT 4.2.0 delivers a large set of new and improved functionality. The Script Developer has seen a lot of enhancements. Most …
XLT skills are in demand
The German computer magazine c’t recently published the results of their recurring income study among IT personnel. The hourly …
Handle authentication during WebDriver testing
Sometimes authentication is necessary before a test case can be executed. While HtmlUnit based tests can easily enter and confirm …
Discontinued support of JRuby
The upcoming Xceptance LoadTest 4.2 will discontinue the direct support of JRuby as a programming language for writing test cases. …
XLT 4.1.8 Update Release
XLT 4.1.8 has been released. It contains a couple of improvements and bug fixes. You can get the latest version here: . These are …
Availability of XLT 4.1.7
Xceptance is announcing the availability of Xceptance LoadTest (XLT) version 4.1.7. This is an update release and includes smaller …
XLT 4.1.6 is available
We just released Xceptance LoadTest version 4.1.6. This upgrade release delivers small bugfixes and support for Firefox 9. …
Testing Arabic Web Pages with XLT
As you may know, there aren’t only Western character encoded websites on the web. There are also websites in Chinese, Japanese, …
Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools
Smashing Magazine lists a couple of free and commercial tools to cover cross-browser testing: Good news: very powerful free …
Firefox 5.0 support
If you are looking for Firefox 5.0 support when using XLT script developer, you will get it with version 4.1 of XLT. This version …
Get the right load mix out of a few numbers
When testing ecommerce applications on SaaS environments, you often do not get enough numbers from clients because they simply do …
XLT 4.0.5 Amazon-EC2 AMIs available
These are the AMI-IDs of the XLT 4.0.5 images for Amazon-EC2. EU-West: ami-772b1d03 US-East: ami-52649b3b US-West: ami-29bfec6c …
XLT 4.0.5 is out
We just released Xceptance LoadTest 4.0.5. It is a minor update and recommended for everyone. But you might have special interests …
Load Testing Web Applications - Do it on the DOM Level!
This article was first published in the June 2010 issue of the magazine Testing Experience. HTTP-level tools record HTTP requests …
XLT 4.0.4 is available
Today we released update 4 of XLT 4.0. You will find all the details about it at the usual place: . Check out the release notes …
XLT 4.0.2 released
Today we released a minor update of XLT 4.0. You will find all the details about it at the usual place: . Check out the release …
XLT - Garbage Collector details visualized
Today we want to give you a small preview of an upcoming XLT feature. Most of you probably know that XLT features agent …
XLT 4.0.1 released
Today, we released XLT 4.0.1. This is an minor update to XLT 4.0 that fixes five defects. Additionally, it provides some …
XLT 4.0 Developer Screencasts
We just published four brand-new screencasts about XLT 4.0, its features, and how to work with them. This is our first attempt to …
Availability of new XLT 4.0 EC2 Images
There are new public Amazon EC2 images (AMI) available each running 4 agentcontrollers of XLT 4.0.0.r6019 on ports 8500 to 8503. …
Xceptance LoadTest 4.0 is available
We just released Xceptance LoadTest 4.0. This release of our load test software got some really nice feature enhancements to make …
Burn-in test of XLT 4.0
If you write a performance testing software, your first obligation is a performance test for and with that software. So before we …
XLT-Update 3.3.4
We just released an update for XLT 3.3. The version 3.3.4 fixes a problem with the onblur event in HtmlUnit that might have led to …
New Amazon Machine Image (AMI) available
A new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running XLT has been made available in the EU region. Use the command line tool of version 3.3.3 …
What is the state of the G1 Garbage Collector?
Because I do not know what is the current state of the Java G1 Garbage Collector, I decided to try G1 with JDK6u20. Somehow I was …
Load Testing Web Applications - Do it on the DOM Level!
We published the article “Load Testing Web Applications - Do it on the DOM Level!” in the 10th issue of the testing …
Xceptance LoadTest 3.3.2 is out now
Last week, we released a small update of Xceptance LoadTest - version 3.3.2. It mainly adds support for Firefox 3.6 to the XLT …
XLT 3.3.1 - Neue Kommentarfunktion
Jeder Tester hat sich bestimmt schon über den Aufwand geärgert, den man treiben muss, damit Testkonfigurationen, -ergebnisse und …
XLT ist gelistet
Xceptance LoadTest wurde in die Liste der Testtools auf SoftwareQAtest.com aufgenommen. Wir freuen uns sehr über das …
Eclipse und Ubuntu 9.10
Wer seine eigene Eclipse-Installation unter Ubuntu 9.10 betreibt bzw. ältere Versionen von Eclipse im Einsatz hat, der kennt …
Malen mit Lasttests
Wer sagt denn, dass man als Tester nicht kreativ sein kann. Dieses Meisterwerk ist mir heute bei einem Lasttest geglückt. Ich …
Was sind Visits, was sind Sessions?
Wenn wir mit Kunden über die möglichen Lasttesteckdaten sprechen, dann ist immer wieder von Visits und Sessions die Rede. Beide …
Xceptance LoadTest 3.3 ist verfügbar
Ab sofort steht das Softwarepaket Xceptance LoadTest (XLT) 3.3 zum kostenlosen Download bereit. Dahinter verbirgt sich schon die …
XLT-Scriptrecorder Update-Benachrichtigung
Alle Teilnehmer am XLT-3.3 Beta-Programm sollten in den nächsten Tagen von ihrem Firefox über das Update des XLT-Script-Recorders …
Ein neues Logo für XLT
Ab heute hat Xceptance LoadTest - XLT sein eigenes Logo, um die Wiedererkennbarkeit unseres Last- und Regressionstest-Tools zu …
Der Picasso in uns
Nach längerer Forschung ist es uns nun gelungen, möglichst abstrakte und doch surreal schöne Diagramme zu malen. Leider werden wir …
Lasttesten mit Webdriver und Ruby
Zur Zeit arbeiten wir intensiv an unseren nächsten Xceptance LoadTest Version. Sie wird einige interessante Neuerungen mitbringen, …
Die neuen Reports in XLT 3.2
Wir hatten ja noch einige Informationen zu XLT 3.2 versprochen. Heute gibt es einen Blick auf die neuen Reports, die nach einem …
Vergleich von Lasttest-Ergebnissen
Die kommende Version von XLT (3.3) wird ein schönes neues Feature mitbringen: Die Möglichkeit des Vergleichs von …
XLT 3.2 ist nicht mehr weit
Nächste Woche wollen wir XLT 3.2 releasen. Ich freue mich drauf, denn es ist wirklich gut geworden. Wir haben viele Dinge …
Der schwere Akt - Screencasts
Screencast anzufertigen ist echt kein triviales Thema. Heute habe ich mir mal die verfügbare Software angesehen. So richtig …
Implizite Safari-Tests
Es zeigt sich immer wieder, dass Webseiten, die sich schwer mit XLT automatisieren lassen und immer wieder mit Fehlern abbrechen, …
Total rund
Echt selten, dass die Summe aller Zwischensummen so rund wird. Gefunden beim letzten Lasttest und dabei ist alles recht zufällig.
Hammerhead - Firefox Plugin
Ab sofort gibt es Hammerhead als neues und nützliches Firefox/Firebug-Plugin. Hammerhead misst die Ladezeit einer Webseite und …
Lasttest-Mailbox
Heute habe ich meine Lasttest-Mailbox aufgeräumt, denn es stauten sich mehr als 5000 Test-E-Mails. Aber was ist eine …
Whitespaces und XPath
Machmal kann es nützlich sein, bei der Arbeit mit XPath-Ausdrücken in HtmlUnit respektive XLT, Werte von HTML-Elementen direkt in …
XLT - Start-and-Go Feature
Ich muss mich heute einfach mal über das Start-And-Go Feature von Xceptance Load Test (XLT) freuen. Früh im Hotel habe ich mich …