Script Issues with Controller

From: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com [mailto:lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Pulley
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:48 AM
To: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: VUGEN vs Load Controller



Jumping back to Testing 101, if we have an expressed difference in behavior we should take a look at the test documented initial conditions, steps and inputs to see if they are identical. So, here’s where I would run to

· Initial Conditions. Is the version of your load generator software version matched to the version used for development which also matches the version of the controller?

· Do you have any differences in the membership of the load generators with respect to windows domains from the PC in which you developed the scripts?

· Can you sign onto a Load Generator and run your script without issues manually?

· Does this happen with only a single user or only under load?

· Do you have substantial differences in your infrastructure between your load generator and your application under test versus your vugen development PC and your application under test?

· Have you tested the data on your vugen development host which is in use at the time of the errors? If so, do you get a difference in behavior?

· Are you checking for returned pages with ‘continue on error’ checked? Peoplesoft is a bit oddball because all of the pages come back HTTP 200 even when an error message is present. You will need to check for content.

· I would drop down an OSI tier and go direct HTTP with URL to see if this is a more stable solution. Some place a lot of stock in AJAX scripting, but I tend to think that AJAX toolkit manufacturers are a lot cagier and faster moving than the tools which purport to support them. This applies to HP and everyone else on the planet too.

· Does this follow all user types or just one or two. If not all then it is probably not an environment issue and is related directly to something in the scripts. If all, then I would be taking a lot closer look at some of the initial software and network environmental conditions.

James Pulley, http://www.loadrunnerbythehour.com/PricingMatrix

From: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com [mailto:lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Barstow, Donald - barstodk
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 1:10 PM
To: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com
Subject: VUGEN vs Load Controller

Hi,
We are having issues with some of our scripts not running successfully through the load controller, but are successful when running through VUGEN. Some of the errors are 403 Forbidden errors, activex errors, or java script errors. They only appear in the load controller and not in vugen. Has anyone encountered this before and have any suggestions?

LR version 9.52

PeopleTools 8.50

Ajax (Click and Script) both URL based and GUI based scripts.

Thanks,
Don
_____________________________________________
Don Barstow
Systems Analyst
James Madison University
IT/Information System
(540)568-3617 Phone
(540)568-3085 Fax

Finding text on a downloaded PDF file

Subject: RE: [LoadRunner] Finding text on a downloaded PDF file

If you want to validate a PDF as a PDF in Acrobat on the target download
machine
{
1. Install software for a GUI Virtual User
2. Update LR license for appropriate number of GUI Virtual users
3. Install Acrobat Professional on all GUI Virtual User Machines
4. Install Acrobat Professional Add-ins designed for QA and content
Validation.
5. Develop GUI Virtual user scripts leveraging Acrobat Professional
QA-related add-ins.
6. Secure lots of OS instances for your GUI Virtual User Load
}

Odds of success greater than 75%, with the added dependency of your GUI
Virtual User development skills

If you want to try and validate content in stream
{
1. Save off five of your target PDF files
2. Open the PDF files in Notepad
3. Attempt to find the string you are interested in validating
4. Ensure that the validation string is consistently represented
In all five target files
}

Odds of success, less than 5% due to encryption/compression in the PDF
stream and possible representation of the characters are curves instead of
free text.

If you want to simply validate that you have received valid PDF files
{
1. Save off five target PDF files
2. Open these five files in Notepad and observe the commonality
in structure for the first ten lines and the last ten lines
of the file.
3. Open five random PDF files on your computer (not generated by
Your system) in notepad. Observe the first ten lines and the
Last ten lines in the file.
4. From your observations, develop an algorithm for checking for
A valid PDF file (for any PDF file)
5. Implement your checks as a set of web_reg_find() statements
Combined with a post download check for file size.
If (valid PDF header && valid PDF footer and download size>
Some minimal file amount) then (we have a valid PDF)
}

Odds of success > 99%, with the added dependency of your pattern matching
skills and your C Programming skills and your use of HTTP virtual user
content validation techniques.

James Pulley, http://www.loadrunnerbythehour.com/PricingMatrix

-----Original Message-----
From: LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Sanjay
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:54 PM
To: LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LoadRunner] Finding text on a downloaded PDF file

Hi All,

I am recording and enhancing a script using URL recording mode (HTTP
protocol). I have been able to use the correlation feature to handle the
variables and am almost done except for one thing.

I have a popup window which is actually a PDF file. Is there a way I can use
Reg_Find or something similar to find text on the pdf file?

Any ideas on how to handle this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Sanjay

Automation Framework

http://testingideas.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/what-is-a-framework-in-automation/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/591.html
http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/FRAMESDataDrivenTestAutomationFrameworks.htm
http://www.io.com/~wazmo/papers/seven_steps.html

[agile-testing] Good Test Case Management Tools?

Hi David:
Jay Philips wrote a good round-up of open source test management tools at:
http://www.jayphilips.com/2009/09/10/15-open-source-test-management-tools/
Testlink is on that list.
I am very impressed with Zephyr (http://www.zephyr.com), Collabnet TeamForge (http://www.collab.net/products/ctf/) and we use Jira (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/) for bug tracking and release management.
When you begin to look for tools, methodologies, and support to move from manual testing to automated testing, please take a look at PushToTest TestMaker. Details are at http://www.pushtotest.com/webapptesting
-Frank
On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Jairo Ernesto Gutierrez Pizarro wrote:
Hi David

I've Been working with testlink for more than one year, and based on my experience using this tool i think is a pretty good option. Also it's free and completely customizable.



--- El lun, 8/30/10, david.murdoch0 escribió:

De: david.murdoch0
Asunto: [agile-testing] Good Test Case Management Tools?
A: agile-testing@yahoogroups.com
Fecha: lunes, 30 de agosto de 2010, 10:18 am
Hi there,

Can anyone recommend a good Test Case Management Tool?

We are largely doing Manual testing which focuses on Functional and Exploratory testing. Ideally the tool would be open-source too but this is not an absolute requirement.

Many thanks,

David.

Compare Load Runner and HP Service Test: Features Comparison

Hi Rupesh,

Both tool has its own advantage and disadvantage...

HP Service test is a automated functional testing tool for SOA
application and to check the performance of the application you need
buy HP LoadRunner with web service protocol.

For more info see the link

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1282842482309+28353475&threadId=1320756

Coming to iTKO LISA - SOA testing tool, we can test both functional
and performance of the application in one tool.

It is better to do a small and quick POC on both the tools and see,
which one is comfortable for your company/ customer or for your
testers while testing the application in all aspect (money and
userfriendly).

Contact HP and iTKO for training and getting an evalution version for
your POC. thanks

Correct me if i am wrong,
K.Srihari


On Aug 25, 5:04 pm, "Rupesh Garg" wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> We have used HP Load Runner for conducting the web services testing. We have
> done fairly well in running tests for functional and load tests through HP
> Load Runner. I want to know that what are the unique features, which are
> being carried over by the HP Service test. How buying this tool will add
> value to the testing of web services exercise?
>
> Also, any comparison with iTKO LISA tool on this front will be appreciated.

Web services protocol

http://blog.testsautomation.com/tag/loadrunner-soap-soa-webservice/

http://www.myloadtest.com/soap-over-jms-with-loadrunner/

http://www.loadtester.com/how-performance-test-net-and-net-web-services-loadrunner-orasi-software

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, prasenjit dutta wrote:

Hi All,

Did anyone work on web services protocol? can anyone provide me any simple script for that or how the web service protocol generated script is different from http/html protocol generated script?

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