HP Releases UFT, ALM and LoadRunner 12 – Features You Need to Know

Want to know the top new features found in HP’s UFT, LoadRunner and ALM 12? Here’s a quick look at the top new features I think you’re going to love!

Quotes & Insights from this Test Talk

Unified Functional Testing (UFT 12) now supports:

• Browsers: IE11, Firefox 27 and Chrome 32
• No longer need to disable window’s User Account Control to install UFT
• New Technology Previews to run UFT web tests on a remote mac using a Safari browser
• Can install on OS without having to install language packs
• New parameter in ALM to automatically upload UFT run results
• New Delphi, StingRay 11 and Flex support

LoadRunner 12 now supports:

• Supports IE 11
• Community License Bundle- 50 free users includes all protocols excepts template  bundle users, UFT GUI or COM VUsers.
• Supports Windows  Server 2012
• New support for load generators in the cloud
• HTML5 websockets now supported

ALM 12

• New look to the user interface
• Excel reports no longer supported

• “The less a company knows about the work their system did in the last five minutes, the more deeply screwed up they are.” ~ Bob’s First Rule of Performance Work

Resources

• HP UFT API – a Brief History
• Every Computer Performance Book: How to Avoid and Solve Performance Problems on The Computers You Work With
  Bob Wescott

Tools

• SoapUI 5 Beta – now had REST mocking functionality.
• SOASTA – CloudLite – is a free downloadable performance testing tool edition. It delivers rapid test creation, a visual interface, real-time analytics for test automation and performance testing throughout the application development lifecycle.

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