Clarifications needed
http://www.automatedqa.com/support/viewarticle/?aid=6830#StartDelay
Documentation: "The “ramp up” feature is ignored if the Run Concurrently check box of the Load Test Editor is clear. When this check box is clear, TestComplete runs virtual users in a series, so the “ramp up” functionality becomes meaningless."
1: The doc only mentions the ramp up feature. is the start delay feature also ignored when Run Concurrently is unchecked? Or would the users run in a series, with added delay? So for the example, VUser1 and VUser 4 will run, then after all of these are ran + delay of 500ms, users in VUser5 then will start running?
2: How do I verify the run concurrently feature via the load testing log? From what I see via the Default log (I sorted it by time), it seems like the users are running in a series rather than concurrently, just in random order. If it was a thread-like execution, I would expect to see requests overlap for users (row 1 might have request from user 1, but row 2 might have it from user 2). I don't know if this is due to my test being too short? Can you give me an example to tell the difference (preferably via images/videos)?
I think this question might be similar to this one: http://www.automatedqa.com/forums/forum/post/?mode=singleThread&thread=07c628a1-1344-4007-8542-b9f17162c15f, but I don't understand the answer, so not sure.
3: http://www.automatedqa.com/forums/forum/post/?mode=singleThread&thread=73b87711-3099-4292-a71b-202a5d9f86a1
I don't really understand the difference between the connection numbering, vs. request numbering. It doesn't seem to run the test in the request numbering, rather, by the connection and request numbering. Why? Why are there multiple connections?
4: I see these files *.tcLTK.tcLTCnctns that has the HTTP request/response. I want to edit the files directly, but couldn't because there are binary information in them. Is there no way to edit these manually? Whenever something changes, I have to always re-record? I have a task recorded that has been working fine for a few weeks, then recently, it stopped working and I don't know what caused the errors. I really do not like to re-record tasks. Are load tests this brittle? Btw, how can debug it? A demo would really help (I'm a very visual person - reading text makes it harder to understand).
Documentation: "The “ramp up” feature is ignored if the Run Concurrently check box of the Load Test Editor is clear. When this check box is clear, TestComplete runs virtual users in a series, so the “ramp up” functionality becomes meaningless."
1: The doc only mentions the ramp up feature. is the start delay feature also ignored when Run Concurrently is unchecked? Or would the users run in a series, with added delay? So for the example, VUser1 and VUser 4 will run, then after all of these are ran + delay of 500ms, users in VUser5 then will start running?
2: How do I verify the run concurrently feature via the load testing log? From what I see via the Default log (I sorted it by time), it seems like the users are running in a series rather than concurrently, just in random order. If it was a thread-like execution, I would expect to see requests overlap for users (row 1 might have request from user 1, but row 2 might have it from user 2). I don't know if this is due to my test being too short? Can you give me an example to tell the difference (preferably via images/videos)?
I think this question might be similar to this one: http://www.automatedqa.com/forums/forum/post/?mode=singleThread&thread=07c628a1-1344-4007-8542-b9f17162c15f, but I don't understand the answer, so not sure.
3: http://www.automatedqa.com/forums/forum/post/?mode=singleThread&thread=73b87711-3099-4292-a71b-202a5d9f86a1
I don't really understand the difference between the connection numbering, vs. request numbering. It doesn't seem to run the test in the request numbering, rather, by the connection and request numbering. Why? Why are there multiple connections?
4: I see these files *.tcLTK.tcLTCnctns that has the HTTP request/response. I want to edit the files directly, but couldn't because there are binary information in them. Is there no way to edit these manually? Whenever something changes, I have to always re-record? I have a task recorded that has been working fine for a few weeks, then recently, it stopped working and I don't know what caused the errors. I really do not like to re-record tasks. Are load tests this brittle? Btw, how can debug it? A demo would really help (I'm a very visual person - reading text makes it harder to understand).
