Performance Testing Tips

What is Pacing? Where and why to use it? -Pacing is the time which will hold/pause the script before it goes to next iteration. i.e Once the   Action   iteration is completed the script will wait for the specific time(pacing time) before it starts the next one. It works between two actions. eg, if we record a script there will be three default actions generated by the Load Runner:   vuser_init, Action   and   vuser_end,   the pacing will work after the   Action   block and hold the script before it goes to repeat it. The default blocks generated by LoadRunner is shown below: Actions marked in Red Now we know what is pacing and we use it between two iteration. The next question comes to mind is why we use pacing: Pacing is used to: To control the number of TPS generated by an user. To control number of hits on a application under test.     Types of Pacing: There are three options to control the pac...