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AaronTheBA
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14 years ago

Help Creating a new Test Case

Hello,

Sorry to bother, but I could use some help setting up a new test case. I've read the setup guides and searched the forum, but I'm still coming up a little short.
I'm a Business Analyst, and up until last week had no exposure to load testing, or this software. But I've been tasked with coming up with a load test plan, execution, and analyzing the results. So it's a lot to digest in a short time.
The LoadUI is tremendously easy to use, but I'm still a little fuzzy in a couple areas and would like a little help.

What I'm trying to accomplish:

I want to run a load test to multiple URLs; 1st, one at a time, then a couple at the same time. (This part I got).
I want to run the tests so that it makes X number of hits in the span of 1 minute. So, 1500 hits to 1 URL over 1 minutes. I kinda got this part.
But one piece of the output data that's really important is page load time for each hit. This part I can't seem to find, or maybe I don't know what I'm looking at.

Any help for any of these aspects is greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Aaron

5 Replies

  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
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    14 years ago
    Hi, and thanks for the feedback!

    AaronTheBA wrote:
    But one piece of the output data that's really important is page load time for each hit. This part I can't seem to find, or maybe I don't know what I'm looking at.

    As a part of the preparations for the release of loadUI 2.0, we just published a getting started video to loadUI. In there, we show how to access statistics, which seem to be what you need. In that case, the statistic that you want to look at is TimeTaken. The Statistics Workbench lets you save tesults, export statistics to CSV (comma separated values) files and get aggregate metrics such as Min, Max, Average, etc.

    If you want a non-aggregated version in a table format, the Table Log component may be an alternative. Just connect it to the first output of your Runner component and you will get a column called TimeTaken.

    Does this help?

    Henrik
    SmartBear Software
  • AaronTheBA's avatar
    AaronTheBA
    New Contributor
    14 years ago
    Yes, that helps, thanks!

    For the other question, how to get X number of hits over 1 minute, I had it running this way, then tweaked something and can't figure out how to get back to what I had. Now it's running x number of hits per 10 seconds, instead of distributed evenly over 1 minute.
  • AaronTheBA's avatar
    AaronTheBA
    New Contributor
    14 years ago
    So far so good! Thanks a ton for the help.

    One more question: how do I save the output data?
    I click on the Summary Report button in the upper right to view the results, but how do I save that? (Or if it is saved, how do I view it?)
    Some admins will be running about 100 tests for us after hours, and I need them to save, collect and send me the data from each test.
    I don't need the full data points, just the summary reports that I can already view.

    Again, I apologize if this is obvious and I'm just missing it. I really did look over your site fairly thoroughly, it's just a lot of info for me to take in a short time.
  • AaronTheBA's avatar
    AaronTheBA
    New Contributor
    14 years ago
    I got it.

    BTW, clicking 'print' in order to get to the save screen is a little counter-intuitive. I don't know if that constitues a 'bug', but it's worth considering a different name for the 'print' button. Maybe something as simple as 'Print/Save'?


    Thanks!