I was looking to put together a list of LoadRunner Analysis reporting tips and tricks for our company Wiki. It didn’t take long however to find a comprehensive list by Nick Wilton.
I highly recommend taking a look at this list, and I have highlighted my top 5 tips below. To read the rest of Nick’s tips, or to leave him a thank you message, check out the full article over at JDS Australia here.
It has previously been identified how to enable Regular Expressions in LoadRunner. A big thanks to Charlie, Tim for getting this working, and Dmitry for proposing the challenge.
In this post, I am to going demonstrate a practical use of bolting the regular expression engine ontop of LoadRunner. After all, it is more effort than LB/RB. So why go to all the trouble? Hopefully the following example will demonstrate a scenario where regular expressions can be invaluable.
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Logparser is an extremely useful tool for processing perfmon counters. It provides the ability to query text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files. This post will show you how to take a perfmon produced CSV file, and perform basic analysis on the results using logparser.
A while back, I took some time to familariase myself with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) from a performance testing standpoint. The following post is the outcome of that investigation and can provide a technical starting point for performance testing LDAP . It is not designed as a definitive reference and I implore you to submit corrections and improvements in the comments.
This post discusses several methods for testing the LDAP protocol using LoadRunner, one using JMeter, and a final using a PHP harness.
There has always been something about performance testing that has bugged me over the years. It’s the standard approach of ramping up the amount of load on each test execution cycle.
The typical order of executions for a performance test is:
The flaw, as I see it, lies in the order of execution. I think we an improve on this concept by aiming to ramp down instead. Continue Reading…
