Changelog for year 2017

1.10.3 ^{22 nov 2017}

• use builtin JSON extractor in JMeter, if possible
• fix functioning of apiritif on Mac

1.10.2 ^{19 nov 2017}

• add Postman/Newman executor
• add support for Robot Framework as robot executor
• add support for WebdriverIO as wdio executor
• add support for API load testing with nose executor
• allow running existing BlazeMeter tests of any type, with launch-existing-test flag
• add -public CLI alias to make BlazeMeter report public
• fix crash on reading Gatling logs with assertions
• fix Gatling reading same results twice for multiple executions
• send java-opts from Gatling settings into BlazeMeter cloud test
• do not force "mode=Stripped" property for JMeter distributed tests
• fix file uploads for JMeter and GET/PUT methods
• don't crash jmx2yaml on unparsable JSON bodies
• trying to fix exception write into log for Grinder
• support apiritif transactions in pytest executor
• fix unicode handling in soapui2yaml converter

1.10.0 ^{26 oct 2017}

• fully migrate to python wheel distribution
• provide Homebrew recipe for OSX users to install Taurus easily
• add URL shorthands testing to bzt CLI, allowing config-less quick-test
• handle "many executions in one location" cloud test properly
• allow a fractional hatch-rate when using locustio as executor.
• use chromedriver 2.33 by default
• use geckodriver 0.19 by default
• use selenium 3.6 for Java and inside Docker
• don't use `window_maximize` in generated python script due to problems with virtual display
• download 64-bit Geckodriver for 64-bit Windows
• use -r -l options for ab executor, make its exit code to not fail test
• add JMX path to jmeter.classpath property
• fix property parsing for cases where JMeter expression (but not property access) is used inside YAML
• add gatling reports prefix to `dir_prefix` setting
• ensure executor startup logging is written into log file
• fix elementwise merging in dicts for some edge cases
• fix some file descriptor leaks
• fix installation with old pip versions
• optimize BlazeMeter API interaction by querying only test's workspace locations
• convert Groovy scripts in SoapUI to JMeter's JSR223 blocks
• fix issue with JMeter not handling loop controllers properly

1.9.6 ^{27 sep 2017}

• add pytest executor type
• add Molotov-based executor type: molotov
• support -cloud -func combination for launching cloud functional tests
• use Gatling 2.3.0 by default
• use JMeter 3.3 by default
• use plugins-manager for JMeter v0.16
• report <TestDuration> as part of final-stats XML
• allow using JMeter properties in load parameter specifications
• fix varables option of data-sources in JMeter
• use "install-for-jmx" feature of plugins manager
• change approach to retrieve Grinder label-to-ID mapping
• fix Grinder on python 3 not working
• fix Grinder HTTP 0 error and DivisionByZero error
• fix passfail criteria parsing to work with float percentiles
• fix dashboard encoding problems on Windows
• call BZA session shutdown only if we were sending data into it

1.9.5 ^{11 aug 2017}

• add nunit executor for NUnit-based tests (Selenium and others)
• add executor self-diagnostics in case of failure (output STDOUT/STDERR and log files into Taurus log)
• force Concurrency Thread Group for JMeter when possible
• allow specifying manual cookies for JMeter tests
• add JAR files from files into JMeter classpath
• allow JMeter headers to be set as modification to existing JMX
• use apiritif transactions in generated selenium scripts
• install chromedriver and geckodriver automatically for Selenium tests
• load errors info from BlazeMeter when using cloud provisioning
• rearrange JUnit XML error reporting attributes
• enable PBench to record microsecond values and BlazeMeter uploader to report them
• eliminate potential race condition in Mocha plugin
• settings.verbose switches verbosity on for CLI
• bump up pmgr to 0.15
• optimize Grinder kpi log reading
• add configuration prefix $ for elementwise list merging
• allow spaces around comparison operators in passfail criteria
• add junit-xml support for functional mode
• fix doublequoting error in JTL reader
• recover from invalid characters in JTL files
• fix CSV quotation crash in Locust module
• fix NPE with junit runner and null script
• fix RSpec functional mode tests
• fix Selenium concurrency and VU count for cloud provisioning
• fix test status handling for skipped tests in Nose plugin
• add python -m bzt launcher

1.9.4 ^{28 jun 2017}

• add clearCookies and pauseFor actions for Selenium YAML
• add data-sources support to Gatling YAML scripting
• add TeamCity article to KB
• send more blazemeter module settings into cloud
• TestNG: Recognize setUp() failures as test failures
• fix browser with report not open on recent MacOS
• fix implementation field issues with Cookie Manager of JMeter
• fix crash -v used on Windows with nose executor
• minor fixes around PBench executor
• fix functional mode breaks on JMeter 2.13

1.9.3 ^{2 jun 2017}

• fix failure with JMeter cookie manager and "null"
• install JMeter into per-version directories
• support data-sources for Gatling script generating
• auto-replace tabs with spaces, trying to workaround user's config issues
• create .bzt-rc file template if it not exists
• support dedicated IPs feature for BlazeMeter Cloud tests
• add transaction controller "parent sample flag" support
• add binding to all local IPs into JMeter
• make virtual display to be service, detach it from Selenium
• fix jmx2yaml password masking issue
• fix locust crash when empty host specified
• fix proxy2jmx chrome loader binary in windows installer
• fix Windows installer to ship Python egg within
• added Bamboo article
• Refactor Gatling script generation to generate nicely formatted scripts

1.9.2 ^{14 may 2017}

• fix grinder having 100% errors
• extract apiritif into standalone PyPi project
• improve console message in case of BZA failed response
• support some of JMeter functions when translating into apiritif code
• enable apiritif log printing into console when -v is used
• support apiritif transactions
• improve grinder RC matching algorithm
• improve jmx2yaml conversion with encoded params
• read errors info from distributed locustio test
• bump up auto-installed JMeter to 3.2
• avoid recursion in dummy screen dashboard
• allow specifying link to download Grinder
• allow using URL field for extract-regex in JMeter scripts
• support jmx2yaml conversion of JMeter's native JSONPath Post Processors
• stdin config read removed for CLI (it was hanging)
• hostaliases support removed (was never working properly)
• for JMeter, write scenario name into thread group name
• add simple JMX downloading for Proxy2JMX

1.9.1 ^{19 apr 2017}

• fix errors in reading Grinder KPI file
• fix race condition in updates check
• catch possible error in psutil memory KPI getting

1.9.0 ^{16 apr 2017}

• per-technology executors are extracted from selenium executor
• experimental release of apiritif framework scripts
• use BZA workspace's enabled flag to filter
• don't install 10-base.json into /etc/bzt.d as step towards wheel dist
• proxy2jmx now uses new-style API client
• fix handling samples with empty RC in console dashboard
• fix for too many labels requested from BlazeMeter API
• suppress warning of windows env variables merge
• change Grinder to single process + threads model, change the way results are read
• work with test name mapping in Grinder
• fix locations error with BlazeMeter API

1.8.4 ^{29 mar 2017}

• support new-style Blazemeter API keys
• introduce over timeframe logic to passfail
• include report URL into final-stats module's dump-xml
• fix concurrency values for many thread groups, when values are very low
• add final-stats alias to conform our naming standards
• send some more config options to for cloud test
• documentation fixes
• fix Grinder working with multiple source files

1.8.3 ^{17 mar 2017}

• fix broken on MacOS due to security restrictions
• use Java 8 as default compile target for Java

1.8.2 ^{16 mar 2017}

• support follow-redirects option for Gatling
• add connections count to local monitoring, send it to BlazeMeter API also
• fix JSON configs with extra characters support
• fix BlazeMeter API usage
• bump up Java Selenium to 3.3.0 (will require latest geckodriver installed)
• bump up JMeter plugins manager to 0.12
• grab more details for JMeter's functional samples

1.8.1 ^{13 mar 2017}

• make --- not required for YAML files anymore
• enable YAML multi-doc files support, now --- divides several configs per file (by YAML standard)
• use less verbose logging in the middle of run, can be overridden with -v option
• don't write bzt.log into current dir, use temp dir instead, then move to artifacts
• support arrays as JSON body of requests
• capture jmeter's stderr/stdout into artifact files
• allow setting report-name for cloud tests
• download HAR+Screenshots report automatically from the cloud
• improve JSON body extraction for jmx2yaml tool, inline short JSR223's into config, convert BeanShell into JSR233
• allow changing kpi.jtl delimiter through JMeter properties

1.8.0 ^{25 feb 2017}

• Added a capability to specify SoapUI scripts for JMeter executor
• add services to start/stop appium server and android emulator
• fix default-address handling for multi-execution use of single scenario
• Used ENTRYPOINT in docker to allow command-line parameters passing
• bump up autoinstalled selenium version to 3.0.1
• Added a converter utility soapui2yaml for converting SoapUI projects into Taurus configs
• add selector by link text to selenium actions
• Support for auto setup of proxy server under Microsoft Windows for jmx recording purposes.
• Passfail made back to be reporter, since it cannot serve as service, reporters need to have actual pass/fail status earlier
• add support for inlined JSR223 code for JMeter post-processors
• allow post-processors specified for non-request actions like pauses
• send Jmeter properties onto remote servers for distributed tests
• add regexp flag to jmeter jsonpath assertion
• support variable-names option for JMeter's data-sources
• fix passfail rc404>10 within 1m logic
• fix overriding concurrency in case thread groups have non-int values inside
• fix JMeter's treatment of resource files for cloud tests that have paths relative to the JMX
• fix crash on cloud test results handling caused by API changes
• migrate to v4 API of BlazeMeter
• report non-zero exit code if cloud test has errors

Changelog for Year 2016