Loadrunner Cloud an Essential Component of the Devops Pipeline
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Product Flyer Application Delivery Management LoadRunner Cloud an Essential Component of the DevOps Pipeline Enable faster release and deployment cycles by taking advantage of agile development methodologies to achieve automated con- tinuous delivery. Micro Focus® LoadRunner Cloud makes it simple to integrate testing into the Development Process and test early and often. LoadRunner Cloud at a Glance: Applying an effective testing process within a Scalability in a Continuous high-speed delivery cycle can be a major chal- ■ Scalability: Testing Environment lenge, and traditional non-automated testing Managing hardware for performance testing A cloud-based solution that eliminates the methods may become a bottleneck. Con tin- tools is always a challenge. It becomes an even dependency on hardware as infrastructure is uous testing helps overcome this problem by bigger challenge in advanced DevOps environ- provisioned in the cloud fully automating testing throughout the delivery ments that have multiple teams and multiple ■ cycle. Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud is the Automation: pipelines executing performance tests—with ideal solution to help overcome the potential Built in integration with Git, so scripts are managed challenges of applying continuous load testing. the need to manage a larger pool of load gener- in the repository for automatic updates prior to runs ators and controllers. LoadRunner Cloud, elim- ■ inates the dependency on hardware, allowing Collaboration: LoadRunner Cloud is the market-leading, multiple users and teams to connect to a single Project Management support, allowing users to share cloud-based performance testing solution, assets such as scripts, licenses, and load generators designed to support agile teams and DevOps cloud solution. This cloud-based solution allows environments. LoadRunner Cloud provides a teams to run unlimited concurrent tests with- rich set of features and flexible capabilities that out worrying about hardware availability for the makes it easy to implement continuous load tests, since LoadRunner Cloud instantly provi- testing into variety of DevOps environments. sions the required infrastructure in the cloud. Figure 1. Load Generation machines being initialized on demand in the cloud Automation and Integration with CI/CD Tools LoadRunner Cloud has built-in integration with Git so that all scripts can be managed in the re- pository and automatically updated before ev- ery run. In addition, by supporting CI tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS Code Pipeline and Azure DevOps, each load test can be config- ured and then triggered either independently, or as part of a pipeline. Contact us at: Figure 2. Initializing a script in DevWeb www.microfocus.com In addition, LoadRunner Cloud provides a rich Like what you read? Share it. public API, which serves as a gateway for users Reporting and Analysis to easily perform actions from external tools, Introducing performance testing into DevOps and to take advantage of varied and advanced requires immediate reporting feedback, since product capabilities without the need to inter- action must be taken instantlyhowever, appli- act manually with LoadRunner Cloud’s UI. cations are getting more complex and require (to a benchmark or to an older run) allowing you smart and advanced analysis capabilities to to easily identify performance drops. Some ad- allow quick root cause analysis. Team Collaboration ditional advanced analysis capabilities include Collaboration between users and teams is key anomaly detection and the NV Insights report, in DevOps environments; great collaboration LoadRunner Cloud provides a built in pass/fail which provides optimization recommendations improves the overall efficiency and velocity. mechanism, allowing the user to define the cri- to improve transaction performance. LoadRunner Cloud provides several capabili- teria for a successful test. At the end of the test, ties allowing members from multiple teams to LoadRunner Cloud automatically sets the test collaborate on performance engineering: status to pass/fail, and this indication flows au- Enabling users to get real time backend data ■ tomatically to your CI tool as well, so you know is critical, LoadRunner Cloud integrates with Git integration to edit and synchronize immediately if the current build has failed, so most common APM (monitoring) solution scripts and for version control such as App-Dynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic ■ action can be taken if required. It also provides Sharing test results with different trending and advanced comparison capabilities or SiteScope (cloud or on-premises). stakeholders, one can export and then share reports in different formats (CSV, PDF and Word) or use the option to email a summary report in PDF format automatically at the end of the test ■ Support for project management, allowing users on the same project to share different assets such as scripts, licenses, load generators and more Scripting Technologies LoadRunner Cloud supports a wide range of LoadRunner Professional and LoadRunner Enterprise protocols from Web HTTP/HTML to Tru Client, as well as Open Source tools such as Gatling, JMeter and Selenium, in addition to support for a new, innovative scripting protocol has been added—DevWeb. One of the benefits of DevWeb is it enables users to perform small load tests locally. These same scripts can then Figure 3. An intuitive dashoard provides a complete, real-time network breakdown to isolate application be used in LoadRunner Cloud to run load tests performance bottlenecks from a global region or at higher scale. DevWeb is ideal for developers and Dev Testers, since scripts can be written in modern development environments using JavaScript on a variety of IDEs and platforms. 161-000382-001 | M | 02/20 | © 2020 Micro Focus or one of its affiliates. Micro Focus and the Micro Focus logo, among others, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micro Focus or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies in the United Kingdom, United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners..