Performance Test Guide

We spend most of our time by browsing Facebook, watching videos, uploading photos and many other online activities. Have you ever noticed if you are watching a video and all of sudden the website goes down? If you are trying to book an online ticket and on the payment page, the website stops responding? If you are adding the last available item on sale in the shopping cart and the website gets hung? Isn't it stressful? For every growing business, it's very crucial to keep a tap on the performance of their application. If a website takes more than 2 seconds to respond then users tend to move to some other website which can cause a huge business loss.  Let's say you are on a retail website and browsing for some item that takes around 2-3 seconds to respond to each click or loading the page. In most cases, the user will go for some other website. Performance Testing gives an idea about how the system is going to behave on load and can help the business owners to ...

What is pacing? Pacing is the wait between two iterations of a script. Once an iteration finishes, the script pauses for a set amount of time (the pacing time) before it starts the next one. When you record a script, LoadRunner generates three default blocks: vuser_init , Action and vuser_end . Pacing takes effect after the Action block, holding the script back before it repeats. The default blocks LoadRunner generates are shown below. Actions marked in red What is think time? Think time copies real user behavior by adding a delay between two actions or transactions, like the pause a person takes before clicking the next link. Can think time replace pacing? In an interview, I was once asked: if you add think time at the end of a script, won't it work as pacing too? If so, why did HP provide two separate settings for the same job? They are not the same, because each has a different purpose. With think time, the thread stays active and LoadRunner waits for the ...