HP LOADRUNNER
PRESENTED BY : AISHA MAZHAR
AGENDA
 WHAT & WHY PERFORMANCE TESTING
 TYPES OF PERFORMANCE TESTING
 MANUAL TESTING LIMITATIONS
 LOAD TESTING TOOLS
 LOAD TEST TERMS
 PERFORMANCE TESTING ARHCITECTURE
 INTRODUCTION TO LOAD RUNNER
 LOAD RUNNER COMPONENTS
 DESIGNING A SCENARIO
 EXECUTING A SCENARIO
 ANALYZING RESULTS
 Q & A
ON SCREEN EXAMPLE
PERFORMANCE TESTING
 WHAT?
 A non-functional testing technique
 Determines the system parameters in terms of responsiveness, speed, stability, throughput
and reliability under various workload
 Uncovers what needs to be improved before the product goes to market
 WHY?
 Does the application respond quick enough on several users?
 Does it meet client requirements
 Will it bear expected user load or beyond load?
 Search results example
 WHICH?
 Always done for client server based systems only
TYPES OF PERFORMANCE TESTING
 LOAD TESTING - measures the system performance based on a volume of users.
 STRESS TESTING – measures application under extreme workloads, measure the breakpoint of a
system
 ENDURANCE TESTING – measures application can handle the expected load over a long period of
time.
 SPIKE TESTING – measures how the system behaves under unexpected heavy load conditions, and
its ability to recover.
 VOLUME TESTING – measures performance under varying database volumes
 SCALABILIT TESTING - measures the software application's effectiveness in "scaling up" to
support an increase in user load. Helps plan capacity addition to your software system.
MANUAL TESTING LIMITATIONS
 Expensive
 Time consuming
 Not Availability of man power and machinery
 Complicated in terms of Concurrency
 Inaccurate or probabilistic results
LOAD TESTING TOOLS
 HPE - LOADRUNNER
 IBM - RATIONAL PERFORMANCE TESTER
 APACHE - JMETER
 SMARTBEAR - LOAD COMPLETE
 NEOTYS - NEO LOAD
 BLAZE METER
 WAPT
 VISUAL STUDIO PERFORMANCE TESTER
LOAD TEST TERMS / VARIABLES
 VUSER
 PROTOCOL
 SCENARIO
 THINK TIME
 PARAMETERS
 TRANSACTIONS
 RENDEZVOUS POINT
 CORRELATION
 CONTROLLER
 RAMP UP / DOWN
 PACING
THE PROCESS
PLANNING THE TEST
CREATING VUSERS SCRIPT
CREATING SCENARIO
RUNNING SCENARIO
MONITORING SCENARIO
ANALYZING RESULT
LOADRUNNER?
 An automated solution by HP now Micro focus.
 Founded in April 2000
 Latest version 12.55
 Replaces human users with virtual users (Vusers)
 Creates peak and controlled load situations
 Reduces hardware requirements
 Controls from a single component
LR COMPONENTS
 VUGEN
 Records and edits Vuser scripts
 CONTROLLER
 An administrative center for creating, maintaining, and executing
Scenarios
 LOAD GENERATOR
 Generates the load against the application by following scripts
 ANALYSIS
 Assembles logs from various load generators and formats reports for
visualization of run result data and monitoring data.
DESIGNING A SCENARIO
EXECUTING SCENARIO
ANALYZING RESULTS
QUESTIONS / ANSWERS
APPRECIATION
Introduction to Performance Testing & Loadrunner

Introduction to Performance Testing & Loadrunner

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    AGENDA  WHAT &WHY PERFORMANCE TESTING  TYPES OF PERFORMANCE TESTING  MANUAL TESTING LIMITATIONS  LOAD TESTING TOOLS  LOAD TEST TERMS  PERFORMANCE TESTING ARHCITECTURE  INTRODUCTION TO LOAD RUNNER  LOAD RUNNER COMPONENTS  DESIGNING A SCENARIO  EXECUTING A SCENARIO  ANALYZING RESULTS  Q & A ON SCREEN EXAMPLE
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    PERFORMANCE TESTING  WHAT? A non-functional testing technique  Determines the system parameters in terms of responsiveness, speed, stability, throughput and reliability under various workload  Uncovers what needs to be improved before the product goes to market  WHY?  Does the application respond quick enough on several users?  Does it meet client requirements  Will it bear expected user load or beyond load?  Search results example  WHICH?  Always done for client server based systems only
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    TYPES OF PERFORMANCETESTING  LOAD TESTING - measures the system performance based on a volume of users.  STRESS TESTING – measures application under extreme workloads, measure the breakpoint of a system  ENDURANCE TESTING – measures application can handle the expected load over a long period of time.  SPIKE TESTING – measures how the system behaves under unexpected heavy load conditions, and its ability to recover.  VOLUME TESTING – measures performance under varying database volumes  SCALABILIT TESTING - measures the software application's effectiveness in "scaling up" to support an increase in user load. Helps plan capacity addition to your software system.
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    MANUAL TESTING LIMITATIONS Expensive  Time consuming  Not Availability of man power and machinery  Complicated in terms of Concurrency  Inaccurate or probabilistic results
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    LOAD TESTING TOOLS HPE - LOADRUNNER  IBM - RATIONAL PERFORMANCE TESTER  APACHE - JMETER  SMARTBEAR - LOAD COMPLETE  NEOTYS - NEO LOAD  BLAZE METER  WAPT  VISUAL STUDIO PERFORMANCE TESTER
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    LOAD TEST TERMS/ VARIABLES  VUSER  PROTOCOL  SCENARIO  THINK TIME  PARAMETERS  TRANSACTIONS  RENDEZVOUS POINT  CORRELATION  CONTROLLER  RAMP UP / DOWN  PACING
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    THE PROCESS PLANNING THETEST CREATING VUSERS SCRIPT CREATING SCENARIO RUNNING SCENARIO MONITORING SCENARIO ANALYZING RESULT
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    LOADRUNNER?  An automatedsolution by HP now Micro focus.  Founded in April 2000  Latest version 12.55  Replaces human users with virtual users (Vusers)  Creates peak and controlled load situations  Reduces hardware requirements  Controls from a single component
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    LR COMPONENTS  VUGEN Records and edits Vuser scripts  CONTROLLER  An administrative center for creating, maintaining, and executing Scenarios  LOAD GENERATOR  Generates the load against the application by following scripts  ANALYSIS  Assembles logs from various load generators and formats reports for visualization of run result data and monitoring data.
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