Hi Ryan,
Pretty inspiring post and a good reason to reconsider some basics assumed when working for load test projects... Thank you for this.
> In LoadComplete, a page is a simply a convenient way to organize requests
With this in mind, this approach seems to be a good reason for the improvement of requests management within scenario.
Given, that it is not allowed to change the sequence (or order) in which requests are simulated (though this might be reconsidered for the async (AJAX) requests triggered by some page timer regardless of the page state), the following improvement request ideas came to me immediately:
-- It is possible to split some page into two or more ones by selecting a request that belongs to this page and select the Start New Page command from the context menu. But it is not possible to select two or more sequential pages and combine them into one page. Can this functionality be added?
-- Considering your example with a log: It is possible that logging requests are not send sequentially but with some other requests in-between. So, when isolating such logging requests within pages, the logging pages will be separated by some other pages. However, it is possible that the tester will be interested to see the combined result for all these logging pages (for example, to get an idea of how much time logging actions take on the page in total). Does it sound reasonable to be able to combine the results reported for several pages within some wrapping container?
Thoughts? Did I miss something or the functionality I am talking about already exists in LoadComplete?
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad the post inspired some good thoughts about managing pages and reporting.
In the forthcoming release of LoadComplete 3.2, there are some significant improvements to managing pagination and I will need to edit or re-write this post. That said, the functionality you've mentioned (combining pages in the scenario editor and creating arbitrary containers for reporting on requests) are good ideas that have yet to be implemented. Certainly worth adding to the feature request forum, I think!
Best,
Hi Ryan,
> Certainly worth adding to the feature request forum
Done:
http://community.smartbear.com/t5/LoadComplete-Feature-Requests/To-be-able-to-select-two-or-more-sequential-pages-and-combine/idi-p/104484
and
http://community.smartbear.com/t5/LoadComplete-Feature-Requests/To-be-able-to-create-arbitrary-containers-for-reporting-on/idi-p/104485
