LoadRunner Scripting Languages
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 a recorded script in a variety of languages. At current count, LoadRunner supports 8 languages (or 6, if you consider VBA, VBScript and VB to be the same language).
This post shows the list of languages available for LoadRunner/VuGen 9.10, and which vuser types they are available for.
To generate your script in a different language (if available), change the “scripting language” setting under Recording Options.
It should be noted that not all vuser types allow you to generate code from a recording of your application. Template scripts require you to hand-code API calls in your script. This is not recommended unless the interaction between the client and the server is very simple – good examples would be performance testing of DNS or MAPI.
Scripting Language by Vuser Type:
| Protocol | C | VBA | VBScript | JavaScript (JScript) |
VB | VB.NETC | C# | Java | Record/Replay? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action Message Format (AMF) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| AJAX (Click and Script) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| C Vuser | Yes | No | |||||||
| Citrix_ICA | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| COM/DCOM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| DB2 CLI | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Domain Name Resolution (DNS) | Yes | No | |||||||
| Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) | Yes | No | |||||||
| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Flex | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| i-mode | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Informix | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Internet Messaging (IMAP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Java Record Replay | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Java Vuser | Yes | No | |||||||
| JavaScript Vuser | Yes | No | |||||||
| Listing Directory Service (LDAP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Media Player (MMS) | Yes | No | |||||||
| Microsoft .NET | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| MS Exchange (MAPI) | Yes | No | |||||||
| MS SQL Server | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) | Yes | No | |||||||
| ODBC | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Oracle (2-Tier) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Oracle NCA | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Oracle Web Applications 11i | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| PeopleSoft Enterprise | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| PeopleSoft-Tuxedo | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Post Office Protocol (POP3) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Real | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| SAP – Web | Yes | Yes1 | Yes | ||||||
| SAP (Click and Script) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| SAPGUI | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Siebel – DB2 CLI | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Siebel – MSSQL | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Siebel – Oracle | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Siebel – Web | Yes | Yes1 | Yes | ||||||
| Simple Mail Protocol (SMTP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Sybase CTlib | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Sybase DBlib | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Terminal Emulation (RTE) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Tuxedo | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Tuxedo 6 | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| VB Script Vuser | Yes | No | |||||||
| VB Vuser | No | ||||||||
| VBNet Vuser | Yes | No | |||||||
| VoiceXML | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| WAP | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Web (Click and Script) | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Web (HTTP/HTML) | Yes | Yes1 | Yes | ||||||
| Web Services | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Windows Sockets | Yes | Yes |
1 The Web (HTTP/HTML), SAP – Web, and Siebel – Web virtual user types can all be converted to a Java-based script. However, this requires that you are also licensed for the Java vuser type or the Java Record Replay vuser type. The Click and Script and Web Services vuser types cannot be converted to Java.
Note that the VB vuser type (which is a template virtual user that does not support Record/Replay) has some web functions available to it, such as web.url() and web.submit_data().
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