{"id":5052,"date":"2014-10-27T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:41:03","slug":"performance-tester-load-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/10\/performance-tester-load-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Performance QA Tester and Load Tester 6.4 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real-browser testing can increase your productivity over other testing methods. The features added in the 6.4 release will help you work even more efficiently!<\/p>\n<h3>Locator Suggestions<\/h3>\n<p>One of the more challenging aspects of working with real-browser testcases is locating the element that you need to interact with. Starting in 6.4, a suggestion button next to every locator field will provide a variety of different locators that you can try if the default locator does not work. These suggestions also help you learn how to create locators &#8211; as you will see a wide variety of locator suggestions provided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LocatorSuggestionExample2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LocatorSuggestionExample2.png\" alt=\"LocatorSuggestionExample2\" width=\"628\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/real-browser-manual\/building-a-testcase\/how-locate-element-the-page\/\">creating locators in real browser testcases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Quick-create Validators during recording<\/h3>\n<p>Now you don&#8217;t have to leave the page to insert validators into your recording! Simply left-click the element you want to validate and a pop-up menu on the page will offer validation options:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VerifySuggestionExample.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VerifySuggestionExample.png\" alt=\"Verify Suggestion Example\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/10\/browser-recording-release\/\">quick-create validators in real browser testcases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Breakpoints<\/h3>\n<p>You can now easily stop the replay at any point in a real browser testcase by setting a breakpoint:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/breakpoints2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/breakpoints2.png\" alt=\"Breakpoints\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/10\/browser-breakpoints-tester\/\">breakpoints in real browser testcases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Automated Choice configuration<\/h3>\n<p>Configuring Load Tester to selecting different items from a drop down in HTTP testcases can be challenging, partially because the value seen by the user is frequently not the value submitted to the server. Load Tester &amp; QA Tester 6.4 make this process easier, by now assisting in automatic creation of datasets for drop-downs and groups of radio buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/10\/automated-configuration-performance\/\">automatically configuring and creating a dataset for choice fields<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Merrill, Chief Engineer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real-browser testing can increase your productivity over other testing methods. The features added in the 6.4 release will help you work even more efficiently!<br \/>\nLocator Suggestions<br \/>\nOne of the more challenging aspects of working with real-browser testcases is locating the element that you need to interact with. Starting in 6.4, a suggestion button next to every locator field will provide a variety of different locators that you can try if the default locator does not work. These suggestions also help you learn how to create locators &#8211; as you will see a wide variety of locator suggestions provided.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LocatorSuggestionExample2.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nRead more about <a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/10\/performance-tester-load-released\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,204,197,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-load-testing","category-qa-and-functional-testing","category-real-browser","category-release-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5834,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}