Monitoring SAP in SilkPerformer

SilkPerformer also offers monitoring solution to SAP during a load test.  However, unlike LoadRunner that depends on SiteScope as an intermediary to monitor SAP, SilkPerformer uses the TCodes (Transaction Code) directly to query the monitoring statistics.  (Refer back to “Monitoring SAP in LoadRunner” for more information on monitoring SAP using LoadRunner).
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How-to record and replay ESRI ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap)?

This article provides a basic understanding that you can use in recording and replaying of the ESRI ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) communicating with ArcGIS Sever. GIS stands for Geographical Information System which examples are Google Maps and Yahoo Maps. There are four approaches I figured out to conduct the load testing using LoadRunner. Again, we need to grasp some concepts on how LoadRunner works in recording and replay in “Which protocol to use?” and how we can apply onto this technology. Basically, they consist of (1) loading of the SOAP/HTTP traffic, (2) replaying of the actual Web Service, (3) replaying of the methods and assemblies and (4) replaying of the scripts created in Visual Studio using Visual Studio AddIn and ArcGIS SDK.

We will go through the approaches in LoadRunner and briefly touch on the similar options available in SilkPerformer. Read the rest of this entry »

SilkPerformer license

SilkPerformer licensing mechanism is based on three mainly groups. Namely Web, Standard and Premium. The differences in each group is the type of technologies being used in the group. For example, Web encompasses the commonly used protocols while Standard focuses on additional components. This is somewhat similar to LoadRunner in terms of grouping the protocols in bundles. The following table is the full list of what the group covers in SilkPerformer 2008 (which is also available in the Release Notes). Read the rest of this entry »

What’s SilkPerformer?

SilkPerformer 2008 is a load testing tool from Borland, originally from Segue. For a start, SilkPerformer are both performance testing tools and bears similarities with LoadRunner such as having a script-generating component (Vugen), a load orchestrating component (Controller) and an analyzing component (Analysis). Therefore, you may like to read about the product LoadRunner in “What’s LoadRunner?” to get a head start of typical performance testing tools before proceeding further on this article. The SilkPerformer suite consists of the Workbench, Silk TrueLog and Silk Performance Explorer. The entire load test implementation is the same where the load generators have to be installed at the machines. For the sales talk, please refer to the official vendor here and its technical publication here for more information. In actual comparison, SilkPerfomer has a close resemblance of Performance Center too. For more information of Performance Center, you may want to refer to “What’s Performance Center?” too. Read the rest of this entry »