nGrinder Files

3.1.1 (2013.01.31)

We proudly release nGrinder 3.1.1 to speed up the test execution and enhance the usability.
With some bug fix, the following improvements are made.
       
- New features and changes:
  * Speed up the test execution. Now all tests will take 5 seconds to execute a test.
  * Embed jython 2.5.3 and json.jar as the default libraries.
  * Make the agent take less memory. now agent processes need 50MB at minimum
  * Shows the response byte per second and mean time to first byte in the test running panel.
  * Change the default QnA site into nabble not github.
  * Change Process and Thread calculation logic more stable to support more than 300 users. Please delete the previous ${NGRINDER_HOME}/process_and_thread_policy.js in advance.

- Details
  
Bug
[NGRINDER-482] - Add grinder.processes and grinder.threads as properties during script validation
[NGRINDER-488] - Add a error message when there are no sampling was performed.
[NGRINDER-496] - Make user not to be able to change the underlying SecurityManager 
[NGRINDER-497] - Make the current pc IP resolution more stable
[NGRINDER-498] - Make security mode work
[NGRINDER-504] - Show script initialize error in log
[NGRINDER-505] - Test Comment should not be cloned
[NGRINDER-506] - Block duplicated validation

Improvement
[NGRINDER-478] - Distribute the un-predefined resources (e.g images) 
[NGRINDER-479] - Speed up nGrinder performance reducing distribution cost (4~6sec)
                     - add json.org library as default lib as well.
[NGRINDER-480] - Make each perftest folder distributed in several folders
[NGRINDER-481] - Move the question mark in logs to just right of log title
[NGRINDER-483] - Make nabble as a QnA Site
[NGRINDER-484] - Resolve locale cookie conflict issue 
[NGRINDER-485] - Add cacheManager be accessible  from the script console 
[NGRINDER-489] - Add control.followRedirects and to control.timeout in the basic template script
[NGRINDER-490] - Make all external links opened in the separate window
[NGRINDER-491] - Make the minimum Xms smaller to support more processes.
[NGRINDER-492] - Make sure the script is saved when user leave the script editor without save.
[NGRINDER-494] - Increase the default vuser count to 300
[NGRINDER-495] - Modify the process and thread policy to support 1000 vusers
[NGRINDER-499] - Include jython-2.5.3.jar as default lib
[NGRINDER-500] - Modify test termination condition as half of test failures for last 10 sec
[NGRINDER-502] - Add the mean time to first byte and response byte per second.
[NGRINDER-503] - Make ngrinder supports more than 2 billion test