Loadrunner Online Training

Course Duration : 20 Hrs

Loadrunner Course Content

Intended Audience

Quality assurance engineers, Performance engineers, technical
managers and anyone who is required to perform load analysis.

Prerequisites

– Introduction to manual testing and creating test cases
– Experience in programming C/C++/ GUI Client applications
– Experience with Databases
– Experience in Client/server application development
– Experience in Web applications.
– HTTP protocol
– Overview knowledge of Network components
– Overview knowledge of all kinds of technologies being used

LoadRunner Installation

1. LoadRunner architecture
2. Where to install LoadRunner components
3. Identify hardware and software needed for installation
4. Installing Loadrunner samples.

VUGEN:
Introduction to VUSER Concept:

1. Definition of Vuser
2. Why VUGEN is Used
3. Features of VUGEN
4. VUSER TYPES

First touch to VUGEN:

1. Starting VUGEN
2. Understanding VUGEN Environment Options
3. Choosing the right protocol

Recording Script using VUGEN:

1. VUSER Script sections (Init, Action and end)
2. Creating New Virtual VUSER script
3. Adding and removing protocols
4. Choosing New Virtual user category
5. Begin Recording on your application
6. Ending and Saving a recording session
7. Running the Created Script

Introduction to Output window in VUGEN:

1. Replay Log
2. Recording Log
3. Generation Log
4. Correlation Results

Understanding the VUSER script:

1. Viewing and modifying VUSER scripts
2. Understanding the functions generated in the code
3. Getting Help on functions
4. Workflow Wizard
5. Walkthrough on few Loadrunner functions
6. Recap of Steps for  creating Vuser Scripts

Streamlining Recording:

1. Settings to be done before recording
2. Modes of recording
3. Choosing the right protocol
4. Types of protocol loadrunner supports
5. Single and Multiple protocols
6. When and how to use more than one Action
7. Deleting Action

Actions in depth:

1. When and how to use more than one Action
2. Deleting Actions
3. Rename actions
4. Import Action into Vuser

Introduction to VUGEN parameters:

1. Definition of parameter
2. Why parameterization is required
3. Parameters Limitations
4. Creating Parameters
5. Types of parameters
6. Using Existing Parameters
7. Using Parameter List
8. Parameterization options

File and table type parameters:

1. Creating data files
2. Properties of file type parameters
3. properties of  table type parameters

Setting Parameters properties:

1. Introduction to setting parameter properties
2. Setting properties for internal data parameter types
3. Setting properties for user defined functions
4. Choosing parameter formats

Data Assignment methods:

1. Sequential
2. Random
3. Unique

Data Update Modes:

1. Each Occurrence
2. Each Iteration
3. Once

Configuring Run time settings:

1. About Run time settings
2. Configuring run time settings
3. pacing run time settings
4. Configuring Log run time settings
5. Configuring Think time settings

Managing scripts using Quality Center:

1. About managing scripts in Quality Center
2. Opening and Saving Scripts in Quality Center.

Correlations:

1. Introduction to correlations
2. Auto Correlation
3. Wdiff Utility
4. Manual Correlation

Introduction to Transactions:

1. What are transactions
2. Why we need transactions
3. How to insert transactions in the script

Introduction to content check:

1. Why we need Content checks
2. How to use the inbuilt content checks
3. How to build your own content checks

Controller:

Introduction to controller:

1. Opening controller
2. Why we need controller
3. Significance of controller
4. Features on controller

 Loadrunner Testing Process:

1. Planning the test
2. Creating Vuser Script
3. Creating the scenario
4. Running the scenario
5. Monitoring the scenario
6. Analyzing the scenario

 Designing a scenario:

1. Creating a scenario
2. Run scenario with sample Vuser load

 Scenario types:   

1. Manual Scenario
2. Goal Oriented scenario

Introduction to Load generators:

1. What is load generator
2. Why we need load generators 

Kinds of Scheduling Scenarios:

1. Schedule by scenario
2. Schedule by group 

Scheduling scenarios:

1. About Scheduling scenarios
2. Delaying the start of scenarios
3. Scheduling a scenario
4. Scheduling Vuser groups
5. Adding Vuser to Scheduled scenarios 

Creating and running a manual scenario:

1. Creating Vuser groups
2. Configuring Vusers in Vuser group.
3. Configuring Vuser run time settings
4. Configuring scripts
5. Setting time out intervals
6. Configuring Scenario run time settings
7. Setting the run time file location
8. Specifying  results location
9. Collating results 

Managing scenarios using Quality Center:

1. About managing scenarios using Quality Center
2. Integration of Loadrunner and Quality Center

Introduction to Rendezvous:

1. What is Rendezvous
2. Where to use it
3. How to use it 

Running scenarios and controlling Vusers:

1. Running entire scenario
2. Controlling Vuser groups
3. Controlling individual Vusers
4. Manually adding Vuser to running scenario
5. Manually adding Vuser to Rendezvous   

Viewing Vusers during executions:

1. About viewing vusers during executions
2. Monitoring Vuser status
3. Viewing the output window
4. Viewing Vuser script log
5. Logging execution notes 

Creating Goal Oriented scenario

1. About Planning goal oriented scenario
2. Understanding goal oriented scenario design tab
3. Defining scenario goals
4. Assigning properties to scripts
5. Configuring scripts 

Monitoring and Analysis

Online Monitoring:

1. About Online Monitoring
2. Setting up the Monitoring environment
3. Monitor types
4. Choosing Monitors and measurements in the controller
5. Starting the monitors in the controller
6. Opening online monitor graphs in the controller
7. Setting monitor options 

Analysis:

Introduction to Analysis:

1. About Analysis
2. Analysis basics
3. Setting data options
4. Setting general options
5. Setting Webpage breakdown options
6. Using templates
7. Viewing session information
8. Viewing the scenario or session run time settings
9. Analysis graphs
10. Open analysis graphs 

Working with Analysis graphs:

1. About working with analysis graphs
2. Configuring Graph display
3. Configuring data
4. Analyzing graphs results 

Cross result and merge graph:

1. About Cross result and merge graphs
2. Cross results graph
3. Generating cross results graph
4. Merging Graphs 

Managing using Quality Center:

1. About managing using Quality Center 

Importing external Data:

1. About importing external data
2. Using import data tool 

Analysis Graphs:  

1. Vuser Graphs
2. Error Graphs
3. Transactions Graphs
4. Web Resource Graphs
5. Web Page diagnostics Graphs
6. User Defined Data point Graphs
7. System Resource Graphs
8. Network Monitor Graphs

Understand Analysis Graphs to get idea on finding out bottlenecks:

1. Analyzing Transaction Performance
2. Using Web page Diagnostics Graphs
3. Using Auto Correlation
4. Identifying Server Problems
5. Identifying Network Problems
6. Comparing Scenario results 

After completing Performance Center, students will be able to:

Describe the Performance Center Architecture
Learn what Performance Center is
Identify the components of Performance Center
Use basic Administrative site features
Set up and manage multiple projects
Set up and manage users
Manage and execute test runs and monitor resources. 

Performance Center: 

1. What is HP Performance Center?
2. What does Performance Center Enable?
3. How Performance Center Components communicate
4. Overview of Performance Center Sites
5. User Role
6. Web Server Functionality
7. Database Server Functionality
8. File Server Functionality
9. Utility Server Functionality
10. Hosts’ Functionality
11. Detailed stud of Timeslot functionality. How to use it? What’s the advantage of using it?
12. Assigning Load Generators/Controller to a test
13. Creating a load test scenario in performance center.
14. Creating monitoring profiles.
15. Creating test results.
16. Managing tests.
17. Viewing test trends.
18. How to recover a load test resource when it has crashed/hung up?
19. How to upload scripts to performance center?
20. Troubleshooting common issues.
21. Live demonstration of executing a test scenario and generating analysis report.