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LoadRunner has a whole bunch of logging options. These can be specified in your script's runtime settings, or specified in your script's code with lr_set_debug_message(). There are some gotchas when ... Read more..Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 5 Comments »
The LoadRunner Analysis tool can either be a godsend or the devil's daughter. I think most Performance Analysts have a love-hate relationship with the Analysis tool...and refer to it as ... Read more..Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 7 Comments »
IMPORTANT UPDATE:HP Loadrunner 11 is now available. This new version now natively supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. I recommend upgrading to this version for full Windows 7 integration, ... Read more..Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 26 Comments »
LoadRunner licensing seems to confuse some people (there are currently 2563 product numbers under the "Performance Center" centre in the HP pricelist). This Tech Tip attempts to clarify how it ... Read more..Saturday, September 12th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 1 Comment »
There are quite a few people writing about LoadRunner and Performance Testing on the web now. This is a short list of some of the better ones. Feel free to ... Read more..Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 5 Comments »
I recently created some BPM scripts for the BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.1 web client. This Tech Tip contains some of the things that I learnt. My favourite part ... Read more..Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 4 Comments »
Many years ago I had a team member who would always answer "yes" when I asked if he had finished the LoadRunner script he was working on. Invariably he had ... Read more..Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 1 Comment »
LoadRunner 9.51 is a patch for for LoadRunner 9.50 which adds some minor functionality (including SiteScope 10.0 compatibility) and, according to the release notes, fixes bugs raised in 48 service ... Read more..Sunday, March 29th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 8 Comments »
Let's imagine that you want to execute arbitary SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries against a MySQL database from a VuGen script. Obviously it is easiest to use the JDBC ... Read more..Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 5 Comments »
In DNS-based load balancing, a website visitor will request a URL (like www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/). Their web browser will do a DNS lookup of the hostname (www.jds.net.au), and the DNS server will ... Read more..Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | No Comments »
You might have noticed that once you have started your load test, it is possible to increase the number of transactions per hour by adding virtual users, but not by ... Read more..Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 5 Comments »
LoadRunner 9.5 was released today and, as mentioned by the LoadRunner Product Manager, the focus has been on refining current functionality rather than adding completely new features. This is not ... Read more..Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | No Comments »
Scott Moore from LoadTester Incorporated has started producing podcasts about load testing. His first podcast is an interview with Mark Tomlinson, who is HP's Product Manager for LoadRunner. Read more..Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 2 Comments »
Occasionally you will find that you must write some code in VuGen to continuously check that the system has completed something, before you continue. Two examples that I have found recently ... Read more..Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Tech Tips | 2 Comments »
Recently I ran a test at a company which had a performance test environment with multiple web servers, but no load balancer. To spread my virtual users evenly across the ... Read more..Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in Tech Tips | 12 Comments »
Occasionally you will find that you need to create a VuGen script for a web application which changes the number of name-value pairs which are sent with a POST request. ... Read more..Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Tech Tips | 3 Comments »
LoadRunner does not come with a monitor for Tomcat. Fortunately, you can easily create one in about 5 minutes... Read more..Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Tech Tips | 1 Comment »
It's wrong to assume that VuGen scripts are always written in C. Some virtual user types are only available in other languages, and some give you an option of generating ... Read more..Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Tech Tips | 10 Comments »
It is possible to test web services using the standard Web (HTTP/HTML) virtual user type instead of the Web Services vuser type. The main disadvantage of this is that you ... Read more..Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Tech Tips | 15 Comments »
If you are trying to create a LoadRunner script for a SAP Web Dynpro application, and you are having problems correlating the SAPEVENTQUEUE in your POST request, then this Tech ... Read more..