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Transaction Response Time

June 26th, 2010 1 comment

Transaction Response Time – Time taken for the application to complete a transaction or business process.

Objective of measuring the Transaction Response Time – to ensure that the application is working perfectly under heavy load. However, the definition of heavy load may vary from system to system. In Loadrunner by defining an initial acceptable response time, we can benchmark the application if it is performing as anticipated.

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Virtual User Generator and Vuser scripts

December 9th, 2009 5 comments

Vuser scripts are created by Virtual User Generator with the recording of activities between client and server. It records the scripts. These ascripts are used to emulate the steps of real human users. Using Vugen, we can also run the scripts for debugging.

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Benefits of LoadRunner over manual performance testing

December 9th, 2009 No comments

Before going for describing the benefits of LoadRunner, I would like to tell you few basic questions that a performance test should answer:

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Best Practices for Performance Testing

November 12th, 2009 No comments

Do’s:

  • After each performance test run, clear the logs for database and application. Large log files may result in inaccurate performance results.
  • To mirror the production environment, identify the correct software and hardware for server.

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