I’ll have another one test execution in the future. Here is a video I made to give you a basic introduction and my thoughts on this new recording functionality: I’m in the process of documenting my experience with it. All that is needed is feedback from customers to ensure it meets any edge cases. I have seen it, and it is more advanced than I expected in a BETA version. In Neoload version 7.1, Neotys is offering Citrix support in BETA to get feedback from early adopters. As Joe Biden once said, “This is a big ****** deal!” In the analogy below, I am on the right whispering into the Neotys R&D staff on the left… With this latest announcement from Neoload, if there are any doubts to their commitment to support the Enterprise, Citrix is the convincing shot across the bow. It is sad to watch HP/Micro Focus take a market-leading product like LoadRunner and treat it like some troublesome foster child – part of a larger burden it must bear – and see it banished to the land of maintenance cycles. If there is any product set to take the mantle from LoadRunner, it is Neoload. Since this is where I make my bread and butter, I’m paying attention. I haven’t seen the kind of passion to further advance performance since the early Mercury days. As I look across all companies focused on application performance testing, who is bringing innovation and leadership? My answer is always Neotys. I call them “the little engine that could”. I have been watching this company closely for the last five years. The New Kid in TownĪnd then there is Neotys Neoload. Development maintenance is minimal, but existing vendors have had little motivation to improve upon their offerings because of it. The underlying Citrix technology and ICA protocol hasn’t changed in many years. Having went through demos or proof-of-concepts with many, my opinion is that they are not a holistic/complete solution tying into the bigger ecosystem of Enterprise level testing. Today, a handful of performance testing products do support the Citrix protocol, but none with a customer base the size of LoadRunner. It never gained a major audience in the market, and ended its short existence in 2013. In 2007, Citrix purchased the “TLoad” testing tool from Edinburgh, Scotland-based ThinGenius.
This includes Citrix themselves, who acquired a company specifically to fulfill the need in the market. LoadRunner has traditionally been the only serious choice for performance testing Citrix applications in the Enterprise. Once you leave the web testing world and venture into other protocols like Citrix, the gene pool gets pretty shallow and there isn’t a ton of information on it like there is for HTTP/HTML. Multiple times I have found myself doing Google searches during an engagement and used my own blogs to get myself out of a jam. I’ve also posted several blogs on the topic. For many years this document has been shared to educate on the basics of load testing Citrix. One of the first employees at Loadtester (Tim Chase) had so much experience testing Citrix applications, he wrote one of the first white papers on the topic. When native Citrix protocol support came out, it solved a big headache. Anyone else remember those days? I actually had to do a few of those exercises as a consultant.
Before then, the only way to attempt a performance test was a combination of LoadRunner and WinRunner. There were a lot of legacy applications and we were migrating many of them to Citrix Metaframe at the time. I was working at a global systems integrator years before I would eventually launch my own consulting company, Loadtester Incorporated. I am such a geek I still have a picture to remind me of the event: I still have the original PowerPoint slide deck that Simon Berman gave in downtown Nashville about it. I was there in 2002 when Mercury first launched their Citrix protocol. My experience with Citrix goes back almost 20 years.
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What does this mean for performance engineers? What does it mean for the software testing industry? I think I know… How did we get here? Neotys has announced support for the Citrix protocol as BETA in the Neoload 7.1 release. Neoload And Citrix: The Performance Revolution Is Here
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