Reference guide

The reference guide provides detailed information on every area of Tricentis NeoLoad. Use the sections below to find what you need.

Interface

Learn about the NeoLoad user interface:

• Menus - Description of all NeoLoad menus, toolbar options, and keyboard shortcuts.

• Settings - Configure general and project-level settings for NeoLoad.

Design

Create and configure your performance tests:

• Create tests - Record user paths, design populations, and configure scenarios for your performance tests.

• Record a test scenario - Capture application interactions through proxy, tunnel, or browser recording modes.

• Check a user path - Validate that recorded requests and responses work correctly before running tests.

• User paths - Manage user path structure, runtime parameters, and customization options.

• Requests - Configure HTTP, SOAP, WebSocket, and other request types.

• Logical actions - Add JavaScript, loops, conditions, and rendezvous points to your tests.

• Advanced actions - Use advanced action plugins for databases, messaging, APM tools, and more.

Testing features

Explore specialized testing capabilities:

• RealBrowser - Browser-based testing with Chromium to capture client-side metrics.

• Remote Terminal Emulator - Performance testing for terminal-based applications using SSH, Telnet, and TLS.

• Core Web Vitals - Monitor Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift metrics.

• Kafka - Send and receive messages for Apache Kafka stream testing.

• SAP Remote Function Call - Create and run RFC-based performance tests.

• SAP Intermediate Document - Create and run IDoc-based performance tests.

Monitors and connectors

Set up monitors and connectors for operating systems, application servers, databases, and third-party tools during test runs.

Runtime

Configure runtime test settings, run tests locally or from the cloud, and manage load generators during execution.

Results

View, analyze, and export test results including graphs, statistics, and SLA data.

Operations and administration

Manage your NeoLoad environment:

• Operations guide - Monitor system health, manage backups, and troubleshoot failures.

• User roles and permissions - Manage access control and user privileges.

• Best practices - Guidelines for effective performance testing.

• Troubleshooting - Solutions to common issues.

• System requirements - Hardware and software requirements for NeoLoad.

What's next

If you are new to NeoLoad, start with the Get started guide or learn about Tricentis NeoLoad.