Changelog 2022.12

2022.12

Report URL Path Simplification

If you’ve load tested an API or web application with dynamic tokens embedded in the paths (like /users/131476/profile or /companies/fcabac8d-8b88-11ed-8b19-12104280a3f7), you might have noticed a lot of similar URLs cluttering your test report.

Loadster can now automatically collapse these dynamic sections to show URLs that are logically the same (like /users/_/profile or /companies/_) so their response times are aggregated together. To enable this, go to the Report section in * Settings* and select Strip URL path parameter values under Report URL Path Simplification. This setting takes effect for all subsequent tests.

Load Test Report Improvements

We’ve improved the Next Steps section that appears at the top of a load test report. This section is automatically generated after the test finishes. It calls attention to any errors that happened during the test and explains their likely cause and whether each error was likely load-related (the result of an overloaded site) or functional (the result of a scripting problem or a data problem).

The errors are now grouped together more clearly than before, and we summarize your site’s overall response time measurements.

Also, Next Steps now calls attention to any CPU utilization problems in the load test infrastructure, since an overloaded engine can cause inaccurate response time measurements, timeout errors, and other problems.

Duplicate Projects

You can now duplicate a project with all its scripts, scenarios, and datasets with a single click. This can be helpful if you want to load test a different version, instance, or environment of your site and want to use the previous setup as a template or simply keep the results separated by project.

Other Improvements & Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a broken link to the dashboard that was sent out in some automated emails.
  • Fixed a problem that caused Timeline cards to not immediately appear when steps were playing from an included script.
  • When Timeline cards result from steps in a code block, they will now focus the code block when you click the title.
  • Prevented exceptionally long URLs from clogging up the test result metrics pipeline.
  • Improved error messages for rate limiting and other less common conditions.
  • Improved the test report layout for tests with lots of scripts.

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