I believe you already aware of recent changes in Micro Focus products. It has been couple months since LoadRunner Professional 2020 has announced. Couple days ago, Micro Focus has released its first service pack of LoadRunner Professional and LoadRunner Enterprise. In this blog post, we will see what’s new in Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional 2020 Service Pack 1.
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Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional 2020 Service Pack 1
This service pack release is more focused on DevWeb protocol. I do not see any noticeable improvements in Virtual User Generator software. But there are updates and enhancements on the protocol front.
DevWeb in VuGen
As you know, DevWeb is a brand new protocol offering from Micro Focus. In this service pack release, following features are the highlights.
- Replay Summary Pane
- New CookieExtractor
- Extended WebSocket support
- Dynatrace AppMon Monitoring support
- Kerboros Authentication in replay
- write and isExists to File operations
- Other improvements and security fixes
TruClient
Asynchronous JavaScript APIs support
Port forwarding in VTS
Truclient Native Mobile now supports UFT Mobile server integration using Oauth2
Web Services
Automatic upgrade of web services scripts generated by Axis/.NET toolkits to WCF
Security handlers for scripts by WCF will no longer depend on WSE.
Citrix ICA
Supports record and replay with the Citrix Workspace client
LoadRunner Enterprise Integration
This service pack supports upload and download from VuGen to LoadRunner Enterprise. Also you can open and edit LoadRunner Enterprise scripts.
VTS
VTS now handles more concurrent Vusers.
How to download LoadRunner Professional 2020 Service Pack 1?
Head to this link https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/loadrunner-professional/download to download LoadRunner Professional 2020 package.
But the service pack is available via Micro Focus Marketplace.
Go to https://marketplace.microfocus.com/appdelivery/content/virtual-user-generator-vugen
You need to create an account which is free. Scroll down to Releases section and then click on GET IT button as shown below.
Hit Save File (in Firefox). EXE file is 1.1 GB.
After downloading it, you need to extract it.
But the default extraction process has failed in my Windows 10 Home. Below is my system specification.
I was getting below error “There is not enough space on drive C:\ to extract this package”. But I was having more than 100 GB in my SSD.
I was able to fix this issue using 7z software. VuGen exe file extraction using 7z solves my above issue.
Have you upgraded to the latest version? Please let me know in the comments.
Hi NaveenKumar,
I just installed the Vugen patch and it seems that there are some conflicts with my current LoadRunner Community edition bundle tool. I don’t think we can have the Vugen at the latest version( including this patch) and the rest of the LR tools ( Controller+ Analysis) to be at 2020 version.
I had to uninstall/install again my LoadRunner Community edition in order to work again.
Hi Marius, To upgrade it to Service Pack 1 for all the components, you need to have the valid support contract with Micro Focus. Community Bundle only support 2020 version. Only the VuGen Stand alone has Service Pack 1.
where did you download the sp1 for the controller? have a lr prof full edition, cant find the patch in support page :)
If you have a valid support contract, you can download it from https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/. 2020.1.0 is only available for VuGen in the community edition. I downloaded it from Micro Focus Marketplace.
Thanks for your reply sir.
So I just need a License copy of LR 2020 sp1, right.
Yes, that’s correct.
HI,
I have updated VU gen int 2020 sp1 but now I am unable to run my new script in the controller.
Kindly suggest a solution for this
Error -205177: Script version (2020.1.0.344) is newer than TruClient version (2020.0.0.746).
Hi Pratham,
You need to have the Service Pack 1 in the controller also. To get the latest version, you need to have valid support contract with Micro Focus. Community edition has only the VuGen, not Controller and Analysis. Thanks!
Hello,
Did you observed issue with parameters when selected sequentially each iteration, some values getting null…not starting from 1st value in list instead giving null.
I have not. Are you sure your test data file is not corrupted?