Posted: May 21st, 2008 | Author: TnT Admin | Filed under: How-Tos | Tags: Controller, Crash, Error, Vugen | No Comments »
In the event that Vugen/Controller crashes or behaves abnormally, the official vendor has provided two documents to assist the user in troubleshooting the problem for each component separately. The documents are rather out-dated but well, better than nothing, is still relevant in some sense. Below are the links to the resources: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 | Author: TnT Admin | Filed under: Concepts | Tags: Scripting, Vugen | 3 Comments »
Vugen is NOT designed to record client-side activities. The main functionality of LoadRunner is to load test a server, a SUT (System Under Test), through emulating network traffic to load against the SUT. The network traffic is as mentioned previously in earlier posts, captured (sniffed) and replayed during the script creation. Client activity exist only on the client machine and does not contributes to the network traffic loading on the SUT. With no traffic being generated, Vugen will not be able to record anything and of course not replayed as no traffic is generated.
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Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Author: TnT Admin | Filed under: Errors | Tags: Controller, Scripting, Vugen | 4 Comments »
Let’s answer the question systematically. This is sort of a troubleshooting guide for you when your script fails. It covers an overview which will be useful when the event happens. The script can fail in two areas in LoadRunner, in during replay in Vugen and during scenario execution in Controller.
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Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Author: TnT Admin | Filed under: Concepts | Tags: Scripting, Vugen | 5 Comments »
In this article, we will walkthrough the settings that will enable your vuser (script) to perform in a certain behavior. We will start off with the configurations that affects time and the subsequent article in Vugen, we will be also touching on the configuration for time in Controller and settings that affects locality. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Author: TnT Admin | Filed under: How-Tos | Tags: MySQL, Vugen | 7 Comments »
As you’ve know, LoadRunner offers the feature of retrieving parameter data from database with the Database Query Wizard in Vugen. This allows ease and alternative preparation of your parameter data for load test. By putting a little creativity on this feature, we need not limit ourselves to the example of Microsoft Access database as mentioned in it’s Vugen User Guide, we can extend this feature to other types of database, say, MySQL database!
Let’s go through a technical overview of what you need to do for it to work!
- Get and install the database driver to connect to the database
- Get the database connection string
- Get the SQL statement for query
- Create a new parameter using Database Query Wizard
- Enter the connection string and the SQL statement
Now, let’s go through the details here with some screenshots to make it easier to understand. Read the rest of this entry »