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This is the fifth installment in a multi-part series to address the basics of performance testing applications. It’s for the beginner, but it is also for the experienced engineer to share with project team members when educating them on the basics as well. Project Managers, Server Team members, Business Analysts, and other roles can utilize this information as a guide to understanding performance testing process, the typical considerations, and how to get started when you have never embarked on such a journey.
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This is the fourth installment in a multi-part series to address the basics of performance testing applications. It’s for the beginner, but it is also for the experienced engineer to share with project team members when educating them on the basics as well. Project Managers, Server Team members, Business Analysts, and other roles can utilize this information as a guide to understanding performance testing process, the typical considerations, and how to get started when you have never embarked on such a journey.
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This is the third installment in a multi-part series to address the basics of performance testing applications. It’s for the beginner, but it is also for the experienced engineer to share with project team members when educating them on the basics as well. Project Managers, Server Team members, Business Analysts, and other roles can utilize this information as a guide to understanding performance testing process, the typical considerations, and how to get started when you have never embarked on such a journey.
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This is the second installment in a multi-part series to address the basics of performance testing applications. It’s for the beginner, but it is also for the experienced engineer to share with project team members when educating them on the basics as well. Project Managers, Server Team members, Business Analysts, and other roles can utilize this information as a guide to understanding performance testing process, the typical considerations, and how to get started when you have never embarked on such a journey.

Performance Testin Read Entire Entry

This is the first in a multi-part series to address the basics of performance testing applications. It’s for the beginner, but it is also for the experienced engineer to share with project team members when educating them on the basics as well. Project Managers, Server Team members, Business Analysts, and other roles can utilize this information as a guide to understanding performance testing process, the typical considerations, and how to get started when you have never embarked on such a journey. This blog series will cover Read Entire Entry

This is the first in the series of articles about performance monitoring under load and how to use the LoadRunner Analysis tool effectively. In my experience, about 60% to 70% of new LoadRunner users never consider all the monitoring capabilities within the product. They only focus on the end user experience – or Transaction Timings as we call them. An important part of performance test execution is to monitor the vital metrics of the infrastructure hosting the application while under load. How else will you know why the end user Read Entire Entry

HP has released knowledge base article KM00360438, which provides a patch to fix the snapshot viewer freezing with Flex scripts in LoadRunner Vugen. The problem usually occurs with the Step Navigator and viewing long responses in the response body.  Sometimes Vugen will appear to hang on this operation. A downloadable RAR file is available on the knowledge base article page. NOTE: This patch needs to be applied ON TOP of SP1.

For more information, go to the HP Self-Support site (HP Passport credentials will be required) Read Entire Entry

HP has released knowledge base article KM00359068, which indicates a new Service Pack for LoadRunner 11.5 may be out by May. This article addresses support for the JAVA JDK 1.7 for JAVA and FLEX protocols. The current answer is:
“With VUGEN version 11.5 SP1, we still do not support JDK 1.7 with JAVA protocols and FLEX (unless all the jars are compiled with backward compatible). It will be supported in SP2, which is scheduled to be released in <SOON>.”
UPDATE: Release Date references were  removed as requested by HP. Exact Read Entire Entry

It’s no secret that mobile applications, native, hybrid and web based, are in high consumer demand. The world is moving from the desktop to mobile devices. Tablets are projected to outsell PCs by Q3 2012 and mobile devices outshipped PCs in 2011. Mobile devices and tablets are the technology of the future. If your organization is not already invested in mobile applications, there’s a strong chance you will be in the near future.

Our clients asked us for solution recommendations and requirements to tackle the task of automat Read Entire Entry

Several years back, I found this posting and thought it was interesting. I am just now getting around to sharing it. Try this code if you want. I use this LoadRunner utility code to assist in analyzing test data, or to write desired dynamic data from scripts to .csv files outside of LoadRunner scenario results folders.

This code requires some script parameters to be defined, and you have to pre-allocate your folder where you want to write your data. The code also checks to see if you are running from Vugen or the Controller. I Read Entire Entry