Tricentis NeoLoad 2024.3: Elevating legacy performance testing with remote terminal emulation (RTE)

We are thrilled to announce the release of Tricentis NeoLoad 2024.3, the latest update to our industry-leading performance testing platform. This release brings with it significant advancements, most notably support for Remote Terminal Emulation (RTE) — allowing organizations to performance test legacy systems. Additionally, we’ve enhanced our cloud capabilities, allowing customers to leverage AWS cloud zones in NeoLoad Web, providing greater flexibility for users who rely on our cloud infrastructure.

Use RTE to make performance testing legacy applications quick and easy

As businesses evolve, many still depend on critical legacy systems, such as mainframes, which have been the backbone of operations for decades. However, testing the performance of these systems has always posed a challenge, requiring RTE to mimic the behavior of a physical terminal connected to a remote system, such as a mainframe.

RTE allows us to connect to the system and simulate users and actions. This is essential for performance testing legacy applications, where direct interaction with the system under test is often complex. With the release of NeoLoad 2024.3, customers can now easily design, execute, and maintain performance tests for these legacy systems using an intuitive, low-code/no-code platform, and via a new natively supported recorder. This makes NeoLoad ideal for teams looking to extend performance testing to previously hard-to-reach legacy systems.

The RTE functionality included in NeoLoad 2024.3 offers:

• Support for a wide range of terminal emulators including VT-series terminals to TN3270, with more protocols like TN5250 coming in early 2025.
• Broad transport layer support including Telnet, SSH, and secure options like TLS/SSL.
• Accelerated test design and reduced test maintenance using NeoLoad’s no-code test design engine to speed up onboarding, reduce complexity, and empower performance engineers to work faster and smarter.
• Deep integration with Application Performance Management (APM) tools to gain detailed insights into system performance

NeoLoad 2024.3 stands apart from competing solutions like LoadRunner by offering faster test design and reduced maintenance, and by providing an RTE recorder to quickly and easily capture user actions and build user paths.

What’s more, NeoLoad’s deep integration with Application Performance Management (APM) tools and its ability to provide detailed insights into system performance make it an indispensable tool for both legacy and modern applications.

Quickly validate any user path 

Easily modify variables post recording, including position, regular expression, and cursor 

Enhanced cloud capabilities with AWS cloud zones for NeoLoad Web 

NeoLoad 2024.3 also brings expanded cloud support, allowing customers to harness AWS cloud zones within NeoLoad Web. This feature – previously available only in the desktop client – enables users to generate test loads using NeoLoad Cloud resources directly in AWS environments, allowing customers to scale their performance testing efforts rapidly without the need to invest in on-premises hardware. 

This advancement is particularly beneficial for global organizations looking to leverage NeoLoad Web to test performance across multiple regions and simulate user traffic from different parts of the world. NeoLoad’s enhanced cloud capabilities help teams optimize their testing efforts and ensure applications perform flawlessly, no matter where their users are located. 

AWS cloud zones are now available from NeoLoad Web 

What’s more, it is now seamless to identify the underlying provider (whether AWS or GCP), and new locations have been added to ensure global tests are as accurate as possible.​ 

Easily view the underlying provider 

Stay tuned for more exciting updates, including expanded terminal support and additional features, in our future releases!