LoadComplete

Hi,

> document repository for understanding the LoadComplete tool 

Documentation that is really worth reading : https://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/78471/

Also https://support.smartbear.com/loadcomplete/ and https://support.smartbear.com/loadcomplete/loadcomplete-videos/ with https://support.smartbear.com/screencasts/loadcomplete/

LoadComplete is a tool to load test web servers via the http(s) protocol from the end-user point of view. I.e. LoadComplete records the http(s) traffic between client web browser (or any other application that communicates with the server via http(s) protocol), provides means to parameterize the recorded traffic and replays the recorded traffic than in parallel on behalf of a lot of virtual users thus creating a load on the tested web server.

LoadComplete differs from the web API testing tools like SoapUI (http://www.soapui.org and https://smartbear.com/product/ready-api/soapui-ng/overview/) in that that LoadComplete records and replays the traffic generated by end-user while working with the web application and SoapUI does not do any recording but instead makes it possible to call methods provided by web services one-by-one or in sequence and verify the result of every call.

To measure the performance of regular Windows applications (like your VB6 one) not load testing but performance profiling tool should be used. AQtime is a great tool that you may consider for this task (https://smartbear.com/product/aqtime-pro/overview/, https://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/43079/ and https://smartbear.com/product/aqtime-pro/overview/).

To profile DB engines, either engine-specific profiler (usually provided with DB) should be used or you may use data from performance counters provided by the engine. E.g. like described here: https://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/78858/