Advanced Loadrunner Online Training

Duration 35 Hrs

Introduction to Performance testing

• What is Performance Testing?
  
• Why We Need to do Performance Testing?
  
• Load & Peak Load Testing
  
• Stress Testing
  
• Soak Testing
  
• How to prepare performance test plan
  
• How to prepare performance questioner document
  
• Introduction to Load Runner
  
• Load Runner Architecture
  
• Load Runner Components
  
• Performance Testing with Load Runner Overview
  
• Identify Hardware and Software Needs for Installation
  

Load Runner VUGen

• Start Page
  
• New Script creation
  
• Protocols
  
• Single Protocol Script
  
• Multiple Protocol Script
  
• Recording Dialog
  
• Default Actions
  
• Recording first script
  
• Tree View
  
• Script View
  
• Replay Log
  
• Runtime Viewer
  
• Protocol Advisor
  
• Output Window -Replay Log, Recording Log
  
• Generation Log, Correlation Results, Run-time data
  
• Workflow Wizard
  
• Creating Script from Template
  
• Understanding first recorded script - functions
  
• Help F1
  
• Saving Script
  
• Script Folder Structure
  
• Recording a Basic Script
  
• Recording Options
  
• Recoding Levels
  
• Replaying a Basic Script

Actions and Transactions

• Introduction to Actions
  
• Creating new Actions
  
• Renaming actions
  
• Deleting Actions
  
• Importing Actions
  
• Enhancing VUGen Script
  
• What are transactions?
  
• Inserting Transaction Points during recording
  
• Inserting Transaction Points after recording
  
• VUGen Function for transaction point
  
• Sub transactions
  
• dealing with lr_think_time statements

Introduction to C

• Datatypes in C � int , short, long, float, double, char
• If condition statement
• Switch statement
• Operations <, >, ==, !=
• For loop construct
• While loop construct

File Operations in C

• Reading a file
  
• Writing into a file
  
• File Handling functions
  
• fopen
  
• access modes
  
• fwrite
  
• fread
  
• fclose
  
• feof
  
• rewind

Parameterization

• Parameters
  
• Concept of parameter
  
• Why parameterization is required
  
• Creating Parameters
  
• Using Existing Parameters
  
• Using Parameter List
  
• Parameterization options

Data Assignment and Update Methods

• Parameter List Configuration
  
• LR Parameter Functions
  ->lr_save_string
  ->lr_eval_string
  ->lr_free_parameter
  ->lr_advance_parameter
  ->lr_next_row
  
• Data Assignment methods
  -Sequential
  -Random
  -Unique
  
• Data Update Methods
  -Each Occurrence
  -Each Iteration
  -Once
  
• Simulator

Parameter Types

• Date/Time
  
• VUSER ID
  
• LoadGenerator name
  
• Iteration No
  
• User defined functions
  
• GroupName
  
• Random Number
  
• Unique Number
  
• File
  
• Table
  
• Using Data Wizard
  
• Importing Data from Excel sheet 

Checkpoints & Rendezvous Points

• Text check point during
  
• Text checks after recording
  
• web_reg_find
  
• web_find
  
• Image checkpoints
  
• Web_image_ check
  
• Rendezvous point
  
• lr_rendezvous
  
• lr_rendezvous_ex

Correlation

• Concept of correlation
  
• Manual Correlation
  
• Example of Correlation
  
• Wdiff
  
• Identifying dynamic value
• Auto Correlation
  
• Correlation Library

More on Correlation

• What all values require to be correlated
  
• How to handle dynamic dropdown values
  
• How to handle boundaries with \n,"
  
• How to handle large dynamic values
  
• Difference between two correlation functions
  
• Correlation with changing boundaries

Generic LR and Protocol Specific Functions

• LR Related functions
  
• lr_exit
  
• lr_abort
  
• lr_continue_on_error
  
• lr_start_transaction
  
• lr_end_transaction
  
• lr_save_string
  
• and 15 more functions
  
• Protocol Related Functions
  
• web_reg_find
  
• web_find
  
• web_reg_save_param
  
• web_reg_save_param_ex
  
• web_set_max_html_param_length
  
• web_get_int_property

Runtime Settings

• Run Logic
  
• Blocks and Iterations
  
• Pacing
  
• Log
  
• Think Time
  
• Additional Attributes
  
• Miscellaneous settings
  
• Browser Emulation
  
• Content Check
  
• Proxy
  
• Preferences

Error Handling

• Error handling - debug message setting
  
• lr_error_message
  
• How to insert break point
  
• Stepping over
  
• Debugging

Load Runner Controller
Introduction to Controller

• Opening controller
  
• Significance of Controller
  
• First look at Controller Interface
  
• Features on controller
  
• Adding/configuring Load generator
  
• Design Tab
  
• Run Tab

Creating Scenario

• Vuser statuses
  
• Designing Scenario - Creating a scenario
  
• Run scenario with sample Vuser load
  
• Controlling vusers - Manually adding Vuser to running scenario
  
• Stoping few vusers
  
• Run one Vuser only
  
• Controling Vuser Groups
  
• Viewing vusers during executions
  
• Types of Scenario - Manual Scenario, Goal Oriented Scenario
  
• Scheduling Scenarios - Schedule by scenario, Schedule by group
  
• Designing Scenrio
  
• Schedule Run Modes -Basic, Real World

Banking scenario & SLA Rules

• Baseline test
  
• Increase load in steps
  
• Runtime settings
  
• Schedule delay
  
• Logs
  
• Errors
  
• Real time scenario designing
  
• scenario- banking site
  
• SLA Rule Configuration
  
• SLA Example

Setting up Monitors & Counters

• Online monitor set up
  
• Configure graph
  
• Configure measurement
  
• Client side metrics
  
• Server side metrics
  
• Brief on Sitescope
  
• Perfmon
  
• Monitors
  
• Counters - Processor, Memory, Disk, Network, DB
  
• QTP script from Loadrunner
  
• Tools -> Option Menu

Goal Oriented Scenario

• 5 Types of Goal Oriented Scenario
  
• Goal type: concurrent Vusers
  
• Goal type: hits per second
  
• Goal type: transactions per second
  
• Goal type: pages per minute
  
• Goal type: transaction response time

Load Runner Analysis
Introduction to Analysis

• Introduction to Analysis
  
• Summary Report
  
• Configuring Analysis Session
  
• SLA Report
  
• SLA Configuration from Analysis
  
• Add Graphs
  
• Delete Graphs
  
• Rename Graphs
  
• Duplicate Graphs
  
• Session Information
  
• View Runtime Setting
  
• Windows menu

Graph Configuration

• Set Global Filter
  
• Set Filter By - Filter Condition, Group by
  
• Drill Down on specefic measurement
  
• Set Grunalarity
  
• View Measurement trends
  
• View Cursor
  
• View Raw data
  
• Comments
  
• Display Options
  
• Merge Graphs
  
• Auto-Correlate Graphs
  
• Cross Results
  
• External Monitor - Import Data
  
• Report generation
  
• Using Templates
  
• HTML Report
  
• Customizing Templates

Interpreting Graphs and Identifying Bottlenecks

• Web Diagnostics graph
  
• Graph analysis
  
• Introduction to Bottlenecks
  
• Types of bottlenecks
  
• Memory Bottlenecks
  
• CPU Bottlenecks
  
• Brief on Disk and Network Bottleneck
  
• Database Bottlenecks
  
• AWR reports for Oracle DB

Introduction to Sitescope(Just over view)

• Introduction to Sitescope
  
• Creating Groups
  
• Creating Monitors
  
• Configuring Monitors
  
• Creating Alerts
  
• Associated Alerts with Monitors