LoadRunner

This is a great place to start if you are new to HP Performance Center or Loadrunner.  Our experts are putting together a series of articles to help understand and teach you about this product.

Background and Loadrunner basics 

A good place to start for a general background and introduction using Performance Center and Loadrunner is here:

• Performance Center : Architecture overview

  High Level Overview Loadrunner has the following high level conceptual components: Injector(s) - Used to replicate virtual users Controller - Used to coordinate the actions of the simulated users Realtime monitors - gives information on hard...

• What is the Difference between Loadrunner and Performance Center

  This question has been asked many times and the simple answer is this: Performance Center is simply Loadrunner wrapped up in a web front end.  I personally think that the web front end looks extremely dated and clumsy - its in need of an update, but...

• My Experience with Loadrunner (Overview)

  Starting to use Loadrunner as a performance validation platform changed the way I looked at load generation tools; previously I had extensively used JMeter. What follows are a list of the main benefits & points of using Loadrunner: 1. Loadrunner...

• My Top Five Issues with Performance Center

  I previously discussed what I saw as the main advantages to HP Performance Center, however I also have a number of grips using the software. What follows are the top five areas I which I think Performance Center could be improved upon: The Performa...

• How to performance test with HP Loadrunner?

  HP Loadrunner allows the implementation, execution, reporting & evaluation of your performance tests.  Before beginning to script using Loadrunner you need to have a clear understanding of what to test. In this post I will describe the major point...

• Implementing test scenarios with HP Loadrunner

  I last gave a high level introduction how HP Loadrunner as a tool fits into the Performance workflow. In this post I will go into more detail with regards to the implementation of the Loadrunner scripting. The objective of the test implementation ph...

• Essential steps to create a Loadrunner test script

  In this post I will describe the most notable activities you need to create a successful Load-runner script. As an example, we will refer to a simple web-shop, which features search functionality, where customers can search for products by typing in...

• Pricing for Load Testing Tools

  This article aims to describe the different pricing structures you may face when evaluating commercial load testing tools.  I’ll use the market leading performance test tool for a concrete illustration - HP Performance Center also commonly refe...

• Pacing Loadrunner User Scenarios

  This article will describe the different options for pacing available within Loadrunner and outline how they can be used.  In the pervious blog  we calculated the necessary number of virtual users to produce the desired load.  The previous formul...

• AJAX TruClient - The next Revolution in Performance Testing domain

  Last week, I had a chance to work on the AJAX TruClient protocol launched in the latest version of LR (LR 11). I was amazed to see a totally different manner of scripting followed with this protocol. The object identification technology made my scrip...

Loadrunner Tips and Tricks 

Some Tips and Tricks for Loadrunner can be found here:

• Customisation of LoadRunner Transaction Names
• Avoiding HP Performance Center installation problems
• Coding date and time parameters in Loadrunner
• Custom LoadRunner Transaction Reporting
• Calculating the number of Virtual Users to achieve the target load using HP Loadrunner
• Creating Custom Metric Graphs with HP Loadrunner
• Modeling spike tests with HP Performance Center
• Using LR Download Filter to protect your measurements
• Sharing Load Generators in HP Performance Center
• Why VuGen is an old gen?

If you have written a great LR Routine and would like to share then please get in touch and submit your code to this site.  Share with the community, gain recognition  and bask in the glory of fellow Loadtesters.   

Advanced Loadrunner

A some articles for the more advanced user of Loadrunner can be found here:

• Customisation of LoadRunner Transaction Names
• Custom LoadRunner Transaction Reporting
• Creating Custom Metric Graphs with HP Loadrunner
• Scripting RMI with Loadrunner VuGen 9.5x and 11

 If you would like to include a article on Loadrunner that would be useful to anyone else then please get in touch