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Announcing Load Tester 6.8!
We’re excited to announce the release of Web Performance Tester version 6.8, packed with significant enhancements that make testing modern web applications easier and more powerful than ever. This release represents months of development focused on security, performance, and reliability improvements. Licenses for existing customers will be updated the week of July 21st.
Complete OAuth2 and Bearer Token Support
The highlight of this release is full automated OAuth2 and Bearer token authentication support. Modern applications increasingly rely on OAuth2 for security, and WPT 6.8 now handles these authentication flows seamlessly:
• Automatic Token Detection: The ASM (Automatic State Management) system … Continue reading »
Load testing with OAUTH authentication
There has always been a race between hackers and web security experts. Performance testing professionals are caught in the crossfire, since the same techniques used by hackers are the ones we use to configure test scripts.
OAUTH 2 is the de-facto authentication standard these days, and while thanks to Load Tester’s advanced editing it’s not too hard to configure a Load Tester script, there are a few extra steps you’ll need to take. Unfortunately there’s no automatic way of configuring a script since each implementation can be different. This article will show how to … Continue reading »