LoadRunner 9.

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Agenda
Whats

new in LR 9.0

Protocol support
New scheduler SLA Analysis Other

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Protocol support

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Next Generation of Applications - Landscape

HTTP\s Request - Response
Applications Server

.NET 3.0 WCF\WPF .NET 1.0\2.0 Remoting MicroSoft RDP Citrix

Citrix Microsoft RDP Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

HTTP\s Request\Response & SOAP

Network Convergence (VOIP, IP Video)

Rich Internet UI (AJAX, FLEX, APPLETS)

AJAX frameworks

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Next Generation of Applications Web 2.0

HTTP\s Request - Response
Applications Server

.NET 3.0 WCF\WPF .NET 1.0\2.0 Remoting MicroSoft RDP Citrix

Citrix Microsoft RDP Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

HTTP\s Request\Response & SOAP

Network Convergence (VOIP, IP Video)

Rich Internet UI (AJAX, FLEX, APPLETS)

AJAX frameworks

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AJAX What is it?

AJAX is Asynchronous JavaScript And XML A web development technique for creating interactive web applications Allows exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, without the page having to reload each time Meant to increase web pages interactivity, speed, and customer usability

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FLEX What is it?

Adobe Flash has unique animation capabilities Traditional application programmers found it challenging to adapt to Flash Flex minimizes the problem by providing a workflow and programming model that is familiar to application developers.

Flex provides an easier way to build Flash applications

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LoadRunner Support for Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Bundle

Ajax Framework solutions Flex 1.5 support for AMF version zero Flex 2.0 support - planned for 9.1 Web services protocol

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Next Generation of Applications - Remote

HTTP\s Request - Response
Applications Server

.NET 3.0 WCF\WPF .NET 1.0\2.0 Remoting MicroSoft RDP Citrix

Citrix Microsoft RDP Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

HTTP\s Request\Response & SOAP

Network Convergence (VOIP, IP Video)

Rich Internet UI (AJAX, FLEX, APPLETS)

AJAX frameworks

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Remote Access Technologies What is it?

Remote Access Technologies

Citrix Market Leader
One of our leading protocols

MSFT RDP - Leading Challenger

Requested by 25% of our existing customers

Testing Challenges
Protocols support any activity over the network not specific to one application Very large deployments to support many customers Remote Access is single point of failure for business activity

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LoadRunner support for Remote Access Technologies

Citrix Protocol Major enhancement released in 06
Client side agent less solution Agent Solution
RDP protocol

Next generation client side agent less solution

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Recording
A user creates a connection to a server using Remote desktop client:

After the desktop appears - users keyboard and mouse actions are recorded
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Example script

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Recording - Snapshots
Desktop snapshots are recorded and mouse clicks are highlighted.

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Next Generation of Applications - .NET & Java

HTTP\s Request - Response
Applications Server

.NET 3.0 WCF\WPF .NET 1.0\2.0 Remoting MicroSoft RDP Citrix

Citrix Microsoft RDP Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

HTTP\s Request\Response & SOAP

Network Convergence (VOIP, IP Video)

Rich Internet UI (AJAX, FLEX, APPLETS)

AJAX frameworks

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Windows Presentation Foundation What is it?

WPF Technologies
New UI framework from Microsoft

Windows Vista
.Net 3.0

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Windows Communication Foundation What is it?

Windows Communication Foundation, sometimes shortened to just WCF, previously codenamed Indigo A new communication subsystem to enable applications, in one machine or across multiple machines connected by a network, to communicate. The WCF programming model unifies
Web Services .NET Remoting Distributed Transactions Message Queues

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LoadRunner support for WCF WCF protocol support

.NET 3.0 support

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New scheduler

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Old Scheduler
A fixed structure: Ramp Up Duration - Ramp Down Very hard to simulate real life behavior

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Dynamic Scheduler
Accurate load testing capabilities Easy to simulate real life scheduling Increased usability, more Flexible First step towards automatic generation of real life scenario from imported production data

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Dynamic Scheduler Contents

Multiple Ramp Ups / Downs Easier to use

Interactive Graph - edit actions, drag, zoom

Grid for detailed editing

Timeline at runtime Pause/Resume scheduler

Full migration from LR 8.1

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Real Life Schedule

Each schedule (by scenario / by group) is composed of a list of Actions:

Fixed actions Start Group, Initialize

Dynamic actions

Start Vusers, Stop Vusers, Duration Can be used multiple times, in any order

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Vusers Quantity
Determined by the scheduler not by the group !

No Ramp Up All

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Manual Operations
Do not affect the planned scheduling - not reflected in the design graph Affect the runtime behavior - manually run vusers will be missing for next ramp Example: at a certain point, the user manually started some more vusers.

Blue expected scheduling Red actual behavior

Note: the red line is not visible in the scheduler graph

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SLA definition

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Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The user may define goals for the run on several measurements, like:

Average transaction response time Total throughput (bytes) per run

The measurements are checked at run time, to see if there is a violation The results can be viewed in the Analysis application

Transactions success/failure to stand up to SLA expectations.

Load Test SLA violations, and the time they occurred

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Service Level Agreement (SLA) cont.

A wizard for easily defining SLA goals

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Other

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Protocol requests

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