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hek8981
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13 years ago

Raw Data Export in 2.5

With the removal of "raw data export" from the free version of loadUI with the 2.5 release, my team is facing quite a dilemma. We're one of the few teams, apparently, who actually use this feature as free users. Using the raw data, we create the custom graphs and comparisons and various other things we need for our own internal reports. The built-in report generation function is sorely lacking for our needs. We can't justify spending almost $10k (per person!) to get a single feature that we have been using up until now.

Will that raw data somehow still accessible to the users under the hood? Could a Groovy script be written in a "roll our own" implementation of raw data export? Or are these data-grabbing libraries also going to "pro only" land?

loadUI is a fantastic tool, and we really love it. We're impressed with the interface, and my bosses absolutely love how much we can do with it. But if our results data is going to be locked down and out of reach, we're going to have to find something else to use.

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  • I have the same question.

    I am very disappointed in SmartBear for removing functionality from the open source edition.
    Furthermore, the steep price for the Pro version isn't justified for getting the results of the tests.

    I guess that loadUI uses the H2 database engine to store its results. Could we get the user/password to connect to the database so we can get to the results that way?
  • Hi!

    Yes, you could implement this yourself using Groovy (custom component), Java (plugin for LoadUI or extend LoadUI) or manually query the H2 database (it's not password protected).

    I definitely understand your point, but we can't make a version for every customer. It's like cable TV or Photoshop (and a lot of other things) -- you pay for a package of channels/features, but you can't cherry pick.

    We made raw data export a Pro feature since our data and intuition told us that it's a feature used by professionals. When you are not simply designing and running and analyzing the results of load tests -- but also exporting the raw results and analyze them in external tools -- then we think that you're a professional user that should use LoadUI Pro. Keep in mind that LoadUI gives you a lot of stuff for free that most tools don't to begin with.

    Regards

    Henrik O
    Product Owner for LoadUI
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    subbiah
    Occasional Contributor
    I tried to open this h2 file in H2 Database console and in Execute Query client with a blank user name and password. it returned wrong username/password error.

    Apart from that, How to customise the report in Pro version ?
    I could only see the option only for exporting raw data. I have installed Pro trial version.
  • subbiah wrote:
    Apart from that, How to customise the report in Pro version ?
    I could only see the option only for exporting raw data. I have installed Pro trial version.

    What do you want to customize?
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    subbiah
    Occasional Contributor
    Just few examples,
    - I want to exclude ramp up and ramp down period in the generated report
    - I want the generated graphs in seconds rather than for an hour
    - I wanted 90th percentile in test summary (not 90th percentile graph)
    - etc

    What sort of customisation i can do with test report in Pro version ?