{"id":148,"date":"2001-11-08T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2001-11-08T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformanceinc.com\/company\/news\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:35:23","slug":"web-performance-trainer%e2%84%a2-23-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2001\/11\/web-performance-trainer%e2%84%a2-23-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Performance Trainer&trade; 2.3 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<i>Raleigh, NC, Nov 8, 2001 <\/i> &#8211; Web Performance Inc. is proud to announce the release of version 2.3<br \/>\nof the load testing product Web Performance Trainer&amp;trade containing some<br \/>\nof the most requested features from our customers.  Short descriptions<br \/>\nof the new features are given below, or you can check out the new 2.3<br \/>\nmanual online.  If you have a need for load testing software in the near<br \/>\nfuture we hope you&#8217;ll give this new version a try.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Support for Proxy Servers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Performance tests can now be configured to record and execute tests<br \/>\nthrough a Proxy Server. You can now run tests from behind a firewall<br \/>\nand proxy server to anywhere on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Capture Error Pages During a Test<\/b><br \/>\nWhen errors are detected during a test, more detailed information is<br \/>\nnow collected.  This information, including the entire HTTP Request and<br \/>\nResponse, can be examined to aid post-test analysis and debugging.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Enhanced Page Validation<\/b><br \/>\nURLs can now be validated during a test by text comparison of the content.<br \/>\nYou can configure each individual URL so that during a load test,<br \/>\neither the presence or absence of a text string will signal an error,<br \/>\nand that page will be captured for post-test examination.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Auto-discovery of Remote Playback Engines<\/b><br \/>\nWhen playback engines are present on the local network, they are detected<br \/>\nand added to the engine list on the Playback tab.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Export Graph Data to CSV format (Excel)<\/b><br \/>\nData exported from graphs is now written in CSV format, which is readable<br \/>\nby most spreadsheet applications. This greatly simplifies the task<br \/>\nof importing the data to Excel, since Excel natively supports<br \/>\nthe CSV format with no separate import step required.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Additional Network Speed Settings<\/b><br \/>\nNetwork speed simulation now includes several additional speed selections,<br \/>\nincluding DSL, Cable and LAN options.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Readily Available version\/license information<\/b><br \/>\nThe Help-&gt;About screen now includes most of the information required<br \/>\nwhen submitting support requests, including the version, build number<br \/>\nand license details.<\/p>\n<p><b>Availability and Pricing<\/b><br \/>\nWeb Performance Trainer&amp;trade 2.3 shipped on Nov 8, 2001. It is available for<br \/>\npurchase through Web Performance sales and authorized resellers. Pricing<br \/>\nstarts at $1,495 for 100 simultaneous virtual users, with typical<br \/>\ndeployments between $5,000 and $10,000. For more information and a full<br \/>\nlist of product features visit: <a href=\"\/load-testing\/\">https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing<\/a><br \/>\nor call 919-845-7601.<\/p>\n<h2>About Web Performance, Inc.<\/h2>\n<p>\nNorth Carolina based Web Performance was founded in 1999 by technology<br \/>\nexperts who saw a growing demand for web testing software during early<br \/>\ndevelopment stages. Web Performance Trainer&amp;trade (all versions) simulates<br \/>\nmultiple users hitting your web site to find performance bottlenecks,<br \/>\nincrease performance or plan for future capacity. Web Performance partial<br \/>\nclient list includes Motorola, Polaroid, Toyota, Blue Cross\/Blue Shield,<br \/>\nZiff Davis, and the governments of France, Canada and Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh, NC, Nov 8, 2001  &#8211; Web Performance Inc. is proud to announce the release of version 2.3<br \/>\nof the load testing product Web Performance Trainer&amp;trade containing some<br \/>\nof the most requested features from our customers.  Short descriptions<br \/>\nof the new features are given below, or you can check out the new 2.3<br \/>\nmanual online.  If you have a need for load testing software in the near<br \/>\nfuture we hope you&#8217;ll give this new version a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-load-tester-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}