JTR 4.0 RC1: effortless distributed testing
 
This is the first candidate release of the next to come JTR 4.0 major update.
 
This new version features both bug-fixes to the former release (JTR 3.2) and new exciting functionalities.
 
Here is the list of the most important interventions carried out for this release:

  1. •JTR 4.0 enables effortless distributed testing EDiT. This means that you can instruct the JTR runtime to distribute your test-sessions to a set of JTR passive-nodes that will execute concurrently with your JTR active-node. This is achieved just declaratively. Not a single line of code is required and you are not asked to take care of jars/libraries distribution amongst all the cooperating JTR nodes!
  2. •JTR has finally a face! JTR 4.0 introduces an appealing and friendly graphical user interface that pops-up at test completion for showing you all the collected results with some aggregate data. For further elaborations the JTR Console lets you export all the collected outcomes into the Excel format as well
  3. •the WSIF 2.0 based webservices-invocation engine has been deprecated. This implementation is going to be dropped in the next JTR minor-release
  4. •a new JAX-WS 2.1 based webservices-invocation engine has been introduced that replaces the former WSIF-based implementation. This new engine supports synchronous, asynchronous and one-way MEPs, still leveraging on DII. As a consequence of using JAX-WS 2.1, by default JTR 4.0 requires that input and output messages are generated by means of JAXB
  5. •enhanced the property-injection capability of the JTR-runtime. Before this release the JTR-runtime was not able to assign a value to your runners’ inherited properties if a mutator method was not publicly available, during the parameterization process. With JTR 4.0 this limit has been finally exceeded
  6. •fixed a synchronization issue in the initialization of JMS-related resources that came out in high-concurrency scenarios
  7. •fixed a bug in the output of the number of processed requests per second
Monday, 18 June 2007