2024 September 27
We are excited to announce the LoadGen 2024 Q3 release. This update brings many new features, improvements, and fixes that enhance the overall performance and user experience. Our team has diligently incorporated user feedback to ensure this release meets your needs.
OCR and QR Support in LoadGen
The Q2 2024 LoadGen release introduces two powerful new validation features: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text validation and QR image text validation. These enhancements provide robust and efficient methods for validating complex processes that involve text recognition and QR code scanning. Here’s an overview of these features:
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Text Validation
OCR text validation allows LoadGen to recognize and validate text that appears on-screen, regardless of whether the text is part of a control or part of an image. This feature is especially useful when applications or websites present dynamic, embedded text, such as PDFs, images, or non-standard UI elements that can't be identified through traditional control-based validation.
Use cases for OCR validation:
- Validating dynamic content in scanned documents or image-based formats.
Recognizing and validating text in non-standard applications, such as image-heavy websites or design tools. - Verifying transaction confirmations or status messages embedded in images.
The OCR validation feature also offers a difference percentage parameter, which helps adjust the tolerance for detecting text changes. Additionally, the occurrence count setting ensures precise validation when multiple instances of the same text are detected on the screen.
QR Image Text Validation
The QR image text validation feature allows LoadGen to scan and verify QR codes that appear during a test session. By recognizing the encoded text within a QR code, LoadGen can efficiently validate long-running or complex transactions.
Use cases for QR validation:
- Validating QR codes displayed during a session to confirm successful process completion.
Using QR codes within web applications to trigger further actions or complete workflows.
Automating tests that involve scanning QR codes generated dynamically during customer or employee transactions. - This feature is particularly useful in environments where QR codes are used for authentication, access control, or application workflow. QR validation ensures that these codes are accurately read and processed, significantly speeding up the testing of transactions that rely on QR-based confirmations.
Frontend Improvements
- WebTesting and different resolutions: You can now set a custom resolution for displaying the browser in the End-to-End Monitoring session.
- Tenant redirection: It is now possible to directly login to your own tenant by adding your tenant name to the LoadGen Cloud: https://www.loadgen.cloud/tenant_name
LoadGen Cloud Studio
- Icons and menu item buttons are gone in Image validation: Resolved an issue where icons and menu buttons disappeared in the Image Validation screen.
- Add control variable results in an exception: Fixed a bug that caused an exception when adding a control variable.
- Expand Select action with Iteration: We have added a feature to expand the Select action to include iterations, enhancing flexibility in functional testing.
- Changing the user type name but not updating it in the Director results in a compiler error: We fixed a bug where changing the user type name but not updating it in the Director caused a compilation error.
- Extra options to Start Process Action: To improve automation flexibility, additional options were added to the Start Process Action.
- Stop Control Validation Search results in Safe Handle Exception: Resolved an issue where stopping a control validation search resulted in a Safe Handle Exception.
- Fat profile change name of IO file delete: Fixed a bug that caused an issue with renaming and deleting IO files in the Fat Client environment.
- Add additional validation - OCR text validation: We have added OCR text validation as a new feature to further enhance image-based validation processes.
- Add additional validation - QR image text validation: We introduced a new feature that allows QR image text validation, providing robust and efficient validation for processes involving QR codes.
- Citrix Workspace App versions higher than 2309.1 are failing: Fixed compatibility issues with Citrix Workspace App versions higher than 2309.1. Read more about this issue in this article.
- Image validation doesn't update the current image in the Action pane: Resolved an issue where the Action pane did not update with the most recent image during image validation.
- Start process/application description is malformed: Fixed a bug where the description of the start process or application appeared malformed.
LoadGen Agent and LoadGen Cloud Agent
- Local client exception in UAI: Resolved an issue where the local client experienced an exception in the User Access Interface (UAI).
- Citrix Enhanced issue with global variables: We fixed a bug in which global variables did not function correctly in Citrix Enhanced profiles.
We encourage all users to update their LoadGen Suite to benefit from these improvements and new features. As always, we appreciate your feedback and look forward to continuing to enhance LoadGen in future releases.