Course Overview

HP Load Runner is a load testing product that determines application scalability, behavior, and performance. It emulates thousands of virtual users, and identifies and isolates performance bottlenecks across and within each tier.

This course teaches students the fundamentals of performance testing using Load Runner. By the completion of this course, students will be able to utilize Load Runner?s features to automate performance / load tests.

Intended Audience

Quality assurance engineers, performance engineers, and new users of Load Runner who need to load test their applications and/or executives who be will involved in any part of load testing.

Course Objectives

After taking the course, you will be able to:

• Identify information that needs to be gathered for load testing
• Identify the components of LoadRunner
• Record scripts in the Web environment using VuGen
• Measure steps and business processes using transactions
• Parameterize scripts to vary user input dat
• Customize scripts by adding VuGen and basic C functions
• Correlate scripts to process server-generated data
• Apply the workflow recommended for creating a basic scenario
• Assign scripts, run-time settings, performance monitors, load generators and Vusers to a scenario based on your load testing goals
• Load test your application by executing a scenario
• Use the Analysis tool to view the results of a scenario