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Run Vugen script using command prompt

We can also run or replay our Vugen script using Dos Command Prompt (CMD) " LoadRunner install dir" \bin\mmdrv.exe -usr "path to .usr file" Note: LoadRunner install dir: Path of directory where Loadrunner has installed Hope this will help you guys. Happy Exploring!!!!

Pacing Calculation in Load runner

                                        Today i will share my understanding on “Pacing”. Usually people take pacing as think time only. I will try to explain both terms first Think time and Pacing, both are a kind of “wait” or “delay” in terms of time but still both differ from each other. Think time: Think Time is the time or delay which user can take between two actions For example, User opens a URL by pressing “Enter” and login page appears but to enter user name or password user is taking some time like copying from other place or remembering it or something like that. This wait or delay we can term as think time in load runner. Think time can be inserted by user in script or captured by tool itself Whereas, Pacing is the delay between two iterations of test. We can give pacing time by using “Runtime Settings” of load runner tool. We can calculate Pacing/Think...

Performance Testing Terms

Performance testing is a vast area of automation and during lifecycle of performance testing we will come across to various terms on regular basis. I am trying list out some of them so we can move comfortably with next level of knowledge sharing. These are more how of introduction kind. Hope it will help you a get basic picture of these terms: 1.        Response Time: A time duration when a client gets a response from server for any request or we can define it as a amount of time from the moment that a user sends a request until the time that the application indicates that the request has completed. 2.      Throughput: Throughput is   the number of transactions per second an application can handle, or the amount of transactions produced over time during a test 3.       Pacing : Time Difference between two iterations. (Can be calculated, i will share the details later) 4.    ...