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Related Analysis
How to find out a bottleneck in analysis? Give few examples? Which option is mostly used to find it, emarging or drill down or auto correlate of graphs
maheshsomaraj
- May 23rd, 2009
Ideally when Vusers are ramping up, hits/sec should also be increased linearly with Vusers. At certain stage during ramp up if you observe a saturation in hits/sec even Vusers increasing, this would m...
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Infragistic Controls
Does Loadrunner support Infragistic controls or not? If Yes, how?
ganeshmuralidhar
- May 19th, 2009
If the question is about handling the 'Grid control' of Infragistics, the answer is Yes. The project I am working in now is having a Grid Control of Infragistics. Initially I was asked to save data...
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Load testing Oracle Apps
I am currently using Merchury LoadRunner 7.6 V to test Oracle 11i application. I selected Oracle NCA and Web protocols and recorded a basic script to query an order. I recorded in HTML mode. When I replayed back, it runs successfully sometimes and other times throws error message saying Action.c(72): Error -24998 : nca_obj_type("607") failed, Window or object is not displayed.The window currently in...
vijayraghavan85
- Jul 16th, 2008
If you have 'nca_connect_server' function in your script then do add 'record=names' after 'fndnam=apps' For Example see the following functions, after apps 'record=names...
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Load Runner Correlation
What is Correlation in Load Runner?
alka.nagar
- Apr 29th, 2009
Many applications use dynamic values that change each time we use the application. For example, some servers assign a unique session ID for every new session. When we try to replay a recorded session,...
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Transaction per second
How will you determine transaction per second from respond time result ?
mg_5085
- Apr 24th, 2009
You can add the pre-existing graphs from the analysis file to see transactions/sec. There are two things to note 1) Transactions/second: Individual transactions/second 2) Total Transactions/seco...
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What is load runner controller .
Controller is manage and maintain the scenario . using controller you control all the vuser in single work station .
boyina
- Jan 22nd, 2009
Controller is a one of the Component in Loadrunner. It uses to design the multi user scenarios and run the scenarios against the load behaviours. In the controller you can design the Benchmark test, Load test, Stress test, Spike test, Endurance test.Regards,Boyina
rekha kurli
- Oct 9th, 2008
Controller is like an administrator in the load runner.It manages,drives,executes and analyse the script and also it emulate Vusers as the real time users.
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LoadRunner supported browsers
i tried to record with load runner 5.0 using default browser (IE) but couldn't do it. there is an error or popup saying supported browser not installed. can any body suggest best or supported browser for this version.
boyina
- Jan 22nd, 2009
It supports with all the browsers like IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, FirefoxRegards,Boyina
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Memory Leak
How can you identify memory leak without using database tool?
Ruchirag
- Jan 16th, 2009
You can check the memory leak of database by observing the PF Usage during the scenario run. Suppose during the starting of load test the PF Usage is 22.1GB of database and during the run it goes bey...
Syedaj
- Sep 24th, 2008
Loadrunner provides paramters related to the DB server or the app server that can be monitored during the course of script execution. Using these parameter values one can find out the bottle necks and leaks if any.
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Parameterize a Load Runner Script
How to Parameterize a Script in Load Runner?
priyankvyas
- Jan 10th, 2009
Parameterization in LoadRunner is entirly based on scenario. According to scenario you need to select the "Type of Parameter". There are different types are there.They are as follows - File,Table,Rand...
dileepkasula
- Jul 1st, 2008
Steps to Parameterize a script:->select the text to be parameterized->R-click on that text you will have a option called Replace with parameter(click)->Here you will be creating a new paramet...
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Difference between Loadrunner and Silkperformer with respect to siebel application
I am praveen i would like to know what is the performance of load runner of hp and silk performer of borland in siebel application and what would be the best tool in this kind of environment and what would be the major difference between these two tools in different environment.thanks & regards,praveen kumar c.patel.
boyina
- Jan 6th, 2009
Hi Praveeen,Both are the Performance Testing Tools which can be used to test the load behavior of an application. Both tools are able to generate the script for your Siebel Applications. But the ...
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URL or HTML Based Recording
How do you actually decide in a project whether we need to go for URL or html Based recording. Though know HTML mode is easier compared to URL based. Any other business reason behind this?
shekhar007
- Dec 9th, 2008
HTML recording is used for Web Based applications whereas URL based is used for Applets etc.
seenu_anand
- Jun 13th, 2008
Html is the Highlevel recording with one request function generated per html page, this would be helpful in maintaining the scripts as the script would be small.Url is low level recording with multipl...
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Hello,I want to know about '' Analysing the Results'' of Loadrunner.How to understand perforamnce of the Application by the graphs obtained?
reddygma
- Dec 5th, 2008
LR is having very powerful Analysis engine that will give almost all types of results that you need to analyze for your performance results. Even if you create a graphs or Analysis alysise results by ...
Ashwajatha
- May 23rd, 2007
Analysis can be Understood by comparison of 2 or more Graphs use Overlay method to compare Transaction Response time with {vuser,throughput,...etc} there by u can understand to some extent the flaws/Bottle necks.
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What is the difference between transaction and transaction instance in Loadrunner?
reddygma
- Dec 5th, 2008
The purpose of these two is not the same in LR scripts. Transaction is used to specify the end of transaction. Whereas transaction instance is used for performance analysis. In the transaction instanc...
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How to set up real time enviornment for load tesing.pls dont tell the book answer,tell it in real time scenarios giving exampleThanks
reddygma
- Dec 5th, 2008
This depends on the performance client requirements. Let us take eg. if you have to test the application for 750 users that will be separated from four geographies then calculate the geographic specif...
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I have a script which runs for multiple iterations and each iteration it takes new user login. but when i run it, it pops up the message, "user is still in active session". i got to manually terminate his session anmd then proceed further. how will i ensure the pervious user has been terminated. is there any command that actually terminates the user once he is logged out. please help me out.
reddygma
- Dec 5th, 2008
There are two scenarios this could possible be the cause. 1. User is not completely logged out from the current session. 2. User session is not ended from backed systems(i.e. Web server or application...
crespoe2006
- Jun 11th, 2007
When you get this pop up message saying 'user is still in active session" then it means that the user is not completely logged out from the application, make sure your script has recorde...
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Performance Testing
What are the documents required for Performance testing?
Felted
- Dec 3rd, 2008
Typically you would want the following items before executing your performance test.- Performance Test Plan - defines the type of tests, entry/exit criteria, etc- Performance Test Load Model - defines...
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Handle large dynamic values in the WinRunner script
When ever I access any url in my application during there is hidden dynamic that is submitted with every hit example_VIEWSTATE for .net pages, this values is change n number times in my scripts and also it is max is more 1024.
Kamran
- Nov 26th, 2008
Your question is not so clear. if you want to input a large number of records, you can make ue of excel file or xml file. If you just want to large vaule and you'r facing problems, this is not a probl...
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What are the min system requirements to work on loadrunner with 500 users?h.disk:ram :
Kamran
- Nov 26th, 2008
We cant say LoadRunner requires 0.5 MB RAM for each vuser. This could be been drawn on certain application. Basically it will depend upon the application and the business process being automated. It c...
Parthasarathi
- Nov 29th, 2006
500 users does not mean 500 licensses. Its only one license which will enable to put 500 Vusers on the sys.per user 0.5 mb of ram is required from our practical exp....so for 500, 250mb should be reserved for LR virtual users....use 512mb box atleast or 1gb is prefereble
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Hi,Which protocol I have to use in LR in order to test Power Builder application based on oracle?
Kamran
- Nov 26th, 2008
First, you need to include Windows Socket protocol.Second, if you are using 2-tier deployment, then Oracle 2-tier otherwise accordingly. Your application with work if you use only one of the aboev (on...
boyina
- Dec 20th, 2006
Hi you can use either oracle-2tier or odbc or com/dcom protocols to genearte the script for power builder applicationThnaks&Regardsvenkat
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I am running Load runner for 15 users..at pending i could see all the 15 users but when it is in initial status only 14 users are added to it...remaining 1 user is still in the pending state...after all the 14 users finishes its task the remaining one user then starts.why is this happening?.is there any solution for this.
Kamran
- Nov 26th, 2008
The suggestions by far sound good. If that still doesnt help, ask the developer if he has implemnted spooling in the application? This typically means that a developer wants a set of (say 20) users an...
menaka
- Sep 11th, 2007
Click on the user state and make it run manually if it not running when all users are running
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