Traffic Parrot 5.41.7 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.41.7. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Fixes

• Fixed support for modifying more than one header in a Handlebars script:

  {{ modifyResponse 'headerValue' 'header-name-1' 'header-value-1' }}
  {{ modifyResponse 'headerValue' 'header-name-2' 'header-value-2' }}

• Improved system tray OS compatibility
• Fixed a bug in the stop.sh script impacting Apple ARM based M1/M2 processors
• The UI log file viewer now supports viewing .gz and .zip log files

Changes

• Logback can now be specified as a logging provider in jvm.args:

  trafficparrotserver.logging.properties.filename=trafficparrotserver.logback.xml

• For organizations that have parted ways with all versions of Log4j, we now offer a distribution with those JAR files removed entirely

Traffic Parrot 5.41.0 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.41.0. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

• Random mixed case strings of a fixed length can now be generated using

  {{ randomValue length=10 type='ALPHANUMERIC' mixedcase=true }}

• Header values can now be set in Handlebars scripts using

  {{ modifyResponse 'headerValue' 'header-name' 'header-value' }}

• New simplified OpenAPI mock import
  • Enable in trafficparrot.properties by setting:

    trafficparrot.openapi.import.mode=SELECT_RESPONSE_STATUS
    trafficparrot.openapi.skeletons.mode=SELECT_RESPONSE_STATUS

  • When OpenAPI response examples are present, they are used directly as mock responses
  • Otherwise, OpenAPI schema data types and field structures are used to generate a valid mock response
  • The request header x-traffic-parrot-select-response-status can be set to a numeric response code to select which response to return
  • The default response returned is the success response
  • The request body is not included in matching, to simplify the response selection
  • The request URL is used for matching, including checking for mandatory path and query parameters
• Role based UI access to allow defining some read only UI users that are allowed view permissions but not edit permissions
  • Enable in trafficparrot.properties by setting:

    trafficparrot.gui.security.mode=LOGIN_PROPERTIES

  • Define users in trafficparrot.gui.login.properties by setting:

    admin=password,traffic-parrot-gui-role,traffic-parrot-gui-edit-role
    readonly=password,traffic-parrot-gui-role

  • HTTP basic authentication popup prompts users to specify a username and password
• Allow loading gRPC existing proto set files in proto-bin with .set.bin extension (e.g. as output by gRPCurl)
• Added a UI page with instructions on how to provide the required JAR files when working with IBM® MQ

Fixes

• Library upgrades to fix OWASP issues
• {{ evaluate 'variable' }} now recognizes a variable that was set using {{#assign 'variable'}}value{{/assign}}
• Fixed an issue with the default permissions of the lib/external folder on Linux
• Fixed an issue with saving very large XML body mappings in the UI

Changes

• Upgraded protoc from 3.21.9 to 3.23.4
• Upgraded gRPC from 1.51.0 to 1.56.1

Aligning company objectives when planning a system simulation project

When planning a system simulation (service virtualization) project, aligning the project with the enterprise strategy is essential. For example, here is what I have been discussing recently with a prospect.

CIO's objective: High uptime.

Director of QA objective: Quality product (feeds into high uptime enterprise objective)

Director of QA key result: Do root cause analysis on all 2023 incidents resulting in lowering downtime of the product (allows a targeted approach to resolving uptime issues)

Director of QA key result: increase automated test coverage by 30% to be able to prevent root cause issues from happening again

Director of QA key result: Create three system simulators (virtual services) to allow for increased automated test coverage for user journeys X, Y and Z

Result: The Director of QA can communicate to the CIO that selected categories of issues causing uptime downgrade will be mitigated going forward, and the expected uptime is increased by X.

If you want to learn about options your specific situation, please contact us https://trafficparrot.com/contact.html