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What is a LoadRunner Agent? Why is it used? Where does the Agent run?
jagadeshwar reddy.k
- Apr 18th, 2007
1)Load runner agent communicates between load generator and controller2)Agent will pump the load(number of users) generated by load generator to the controller3)The executable file is Analysisui.exe
boyina
- Oct 7th, 2006
LoadRunner Agent establish the communication between the LoadController and LoadGenerator, While running the scenario in LoadController All Vusers will be pumping from the LoadGenerator to LoadController by using Agent processvenkat
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Which protocol has to be selected for recording/playback a Visual Basic application?
ashish tyagi
- Nov 27th, 2006
You can create an empty Visual Basic Vuser script, in which you can placeVisual Basic code. This script type lets you incorporate your Visual Basicapplication into VuGen. To create an empty VB Vuser s...
boyina
- Oct 7th, 2006
Hi friend You can use either COM/DCOM or ODBC protocol for recording vb based applications Venkat
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While adding load generator we provide Name, what exactly we should provide?
t_ansar
- May 25th, 2007
Hey, Load generator is the same "Run Load Tests" right dude... let me know what is the path for providing name to load generator...
kishoreqc
- Feb 2nd, 2007
Load gen name it stands for IP address or sys name we have to mention there.
To connect the generator.
Whether it is remote or local host you want to generate the script.
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How do I capture value from a variable which is generated by the system. Thanks.
boyina
- Dec 20th, 2006
HiThe below function u can use for capturing the dynamic values generated by the systemweb_reg_save-param("paramatername", "LB=", "RB=","ORD=",LAST);
Ram
- Dec 11th, 2006
We can capture the values that has generated by the system through the function called web_reg_save_param.
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How to analyse online monitors?
kishoreqc
- Feb 2nd, 2007
Based on the vuser monitor what is the trans resp time at a point like 2000 vusers what is the throughput for the same(2000), what abt the network delay etc by using merge graph. we can compare the graphs in Y-axis.
Regards
Teamboyina
- Dec 20th, 2006
Hiyou can analyse the online Monitors in Controller while running the scenario and after completing the scenario running u can analyse the results in the Analysis component.Venkat
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My application is retail application in that i have to select different items. What I want to ask the condition is if we run that script for 10 users then for each user the items selected should be different for each user.All items have there own category and subcategory ,all are the links so to do this what we have to correlate in the script so that we can get the desired result.Please help me as soon as possible.thank you.
crespoe2006
- Jun 11th, 2007
Hi,You can parameterzie the category and subcategory value, along with user id and allow the user to take there own category and subcategory in parameter by using same line as "user_parameter_name".Cheers
boyina
- Dec 20th, 2006
HiIn your application you can select the different types of the business scenario's in each action session of your script. now try to run all the scenario's with diffeerent types of the vusers.Venkat
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Can i do test a stand alone application with load runner while load runner and that application are on the same computer ?
Ardhendu Sekhar Biswal
- Mar 30th, 2007
No,simply we can create TSL scripts.But without the interaction of application with server, then load testimg has no use.
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Can we define user-defined functions in LoadRunner?Can anyone please explain me with some examples?Thanks,Prasu
amit_apr30
- Feb 6th, 2008
In order to use User-Defined function,one has to create a DLL file in the bin folder of the Load Runner directory.Once the function is defined in the dll, it can be used anywhere in the script by just calling the function
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I need to validate the performance of ODBC application which uses RMI and CORBA interfaces. I was using the RMI- Java Protocol or Corba Protocol (there is no option in LR to select both the protocol at a time). But, while recording, the scripts are not getting generated.Can any body assist in this issue.with regardsSai
fdha
- Feb 13th, 2007
No
e0richt
- Feb 13th, 2007
in order to create an "action script", I had to create a jar that would perform the test that I wanted.put it on the machine that had Load Runner on it and create a "recordxxx.bat" kind of script. I u...
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When do we use the Vuser_init(),Action,Vuser_end() while we record the application....?
Anshoo_Arora
- Oct 23rd, 2007
If you have multiple iterations in your script, the only part that will run the number of times the iteration runs is "Action."Vuser_init and Vuser_end only runs once in the script. So, havi...
crespoe2006
- Jun 11th, 2007
Basically you should define that based on your requirement.?For example : A user log in and does some set of action and log out from the web page.Here you can record user log in code in Vuser_init() a...
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Why is group in Loadrunner script used for ?
Subhashini6317
- Jan 29th, 2008
Some times we can execute different scenarios one aftre the other... so here we define these scenarios in gropus... like a group oof 10 vuser will execute the scenario 1 and the group of 20 vuser will execute the scenario 2... and so on.let me know if u need any more info on this.
Anshoo_Arora
- Nov 22nd, 2007
You can have different "groups" of Vusers run different scripts on your load generator. Eg: Group 1: 50 Vusers running script 1 Group 2: 100 Vusers running script 2and so on...
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How do you select the protocols for LR scripts?
sudeeshna
- Jun 19th, 2008
Selection of protocol depends on type of communication between client and server.
Anshoo_Arora
- Nov 6th, 2007
A dialog box open as you star to record a new script. You can choose either single or multiple protocols for the script.
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Most applications that we test here are in environments which are not production-like in terms of the hardware allocated. You will provided an example of a production vs. test environment, How would go about performance testing in the event that our test and production environments are not alike.
spicemit
- Jan 31st, 2008
This is the most common situations faced by all testers.There is a Transaction Processing Performance Council aka TPC (www . tpc . org)It gives a detailed report of any H/W machine in terms of Transac...
papayamilkshake
- Sep 17th, 2007
1. You can install virtualization softwares to emulate the hardware configurations in production.2. Perform the load test after office hours. Load testing is usually the final stage of testing; that is the pre-deployment testing.
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What is the difference between Hits per sec and Request per sec in LR?
Anshoo_Arora
- Oct 20th, 2007
Hits/second are the number of HTTP requests made by VUsers to the Web Server in a scenario or session step run on a per second basis.Requests/second are the number of requests completed during each second of scenario run.
ranganath_m
- Sep 20th, 2007
Hits per sec is the number of calls to the Webserver per second.And Request per sec is the number of request made to the webserver per second.Point to be notice here is "one Request may have many calls(Hits)".
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What are the benifits of including number of actions in vuser script?
TestQTechnologies
- Feb 4th, 2008
HiThis is a Simple question to understand comming into the below example u will be clrear.1. As a user on the application u may perform different actions.2. If you do each and every action s...
Anshoo_Arora
- Oct 20th, 2007
If you have an application that has a lot of transactions, you can divide all transactions into different actions to handle your script in a more efficient manner.
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LoadRunner Tuning
What is Tuning in LoadRunner? How to use this Tuning option in any Project?Any one pls explain me in detail.
sameera
- Feb 25th, 2012
How to tune load runner for network related issues?
ssoma78
- May 12th, 2009
We are having different tunings likeDB TuningNetwork TuningServer Tuning and so onWhen we get performing numbers bad then we will work with the above concern teams to get the results good as client expected.
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What is the difference between stop and gradually stop ?
TestQTechnologies
- Feb 4th, 2008
Stop : It indicates to stop all the vuser from the execution at a timeNote : In the middle of the execution u can stop the vusers from the running listGradually stop: It indicates to stop the vuser on...
satyadeep swain
- Nov 27th, 2007
When you want to stop all the Vusers at once, this is called stop the Vusers at once. It is done in the scenario schedule section of the controller window.Suppose you want to stop the Vusers graduall...
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What is the difference between hits/second and requests/second?
ranga123456
- Jun 23rd, 2008
hits per second means no of hits made by the client to the server. request/sec meanshow many requests that made by the client in one second.
laxman
- Nov 23rd, 2007
Hits per second means the number of hits the vserver receives in one sec from the vuser and the request per second is the no. of request the vuser will request from the server.
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