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fikarvart
New Contributor
14 years ago

Virtual users ramp-up componet

Hi,

I'm referring this post:https://www.eviware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8440#p24423

As it seems to be difficult to compose this sort of basic scenerio with ramping up virtual users (yes, with virtual users, no requests), it would be good to have a special component for this. Most often we need to do our load tests with basis of virtual users, because non-tehnical people undertands it better that regs/sec, pages/sec etc metrics.

Down below is an example about the needed scenario. At first users are ramped up slowly, then there is some peak load time, and finally ramped down slowly. Of course ramp-down is not that important, but when having e.g 1000 users, slow ramp-up it essential.


http://www.takamaasto.net/scenario.JPG

Thanks,
Kari
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    Hello!

    Interesting thoughts. We are actually discussing better and more flexible virtual users support internally just now. With that being said, there are some important thing to note about "Virtual users" and load testing (please see the end of chapter 1 of this article).

    Regards

    Henrik
    SmartBear Software
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    Hi again, now the component is ready to try out if you want!

    I would like you to try the Ramp Sequence Generator, which I have attached to this post, in loadUI 2.0 beta 1. That one has support for RampUp -> Constant -> RampDown.

    To install the component, unzip its content into the script-components folder of your loadUI installation.

    Please let me know how how it worked for you!

    Henrik
    SmartBear Software