20071017 1350 Whats New in Load Runner 90

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LoadRunner 9.0



Confidential & Proprietary2

•What’s new in LR 9.0

• Protocol support

• New scheduler

• SLA Analysis

• Other

Agenda




Protocol support




Next Generation of Applications - Landscape

Applications Server

Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

Network Convergence

(VOIP, IP Video)

AJAX frameworks

HTTP\s Request - Response

Citrix

MicroSoft RDP

Citrix

Microsoft RDP.NET 1.0\2.0 Remoting

.NET 3.0 – WCF\WPF

Rich Internet UI (AJAX, FLEX, APPLETS)

HTTP\s Request\Response & SOAP




Next Generation of Applications – Web 2.0

Applications Server

Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

Network Convergence

(VOIP, IP Video)

AJAX frameworks


Citrix

MicroSoft RDP

Citrix








AJAX – What is it?

– AJAX is Asynchronous JavaScript And XML

– A web development technique for creating interactive webapplications

– Allows exchanging small amounts of data with the serverbehind the scenes, without the page having to reload each

time – Meant to increase web pages interactivity, speed, and

customer usability


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FLEX – What is it?

– Adobe Flash has unique animation capabilities

– Traditional application programmers found it challenging toadapt to Flash

– Flex minimizes the problem by providing a workflow andprogramming model that is familiar to application developers.

– Flex provides an easier way to build Flash applications



• Web 2.0 Bundle

– Ajax Framework solutions

– Flex 1.5 support for AMF version zero

– Flex 2.0 support - planned for 9.1

– Web services protocol

LoadRunner Support for Web 2.0



Next Generation of Applications - Remote

Applications Server

Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

Network Convergence

(VOIP, IP Video)

AJAX frameworks


Citrix

MicroSoft RDP

Citrix







Remote Access Technologies – What is it?

• Remote Access Technologies

– Citrix – Market Leader• One of our leading protocols

– MSFT RDP - Leading Challenger

• Requested by 25% of our existingcustomers

• Testing Challenges

– Protocols support any activity overthe network not specific to oneapplication

– Very large deployments to supportmany customers

– Remote Access is single point offailure for business activity



• Citrix Protocol – Major enhancement released in ’06

– Client side agent less solution

– Agent Solution

• RDP protocol – Next generation client side agent less solution

LoadRunner support for Remote AccessTechnologies



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HP Software Technology Briefing 2007

Recording

A user creates a connection to a server using

Remote desktop client:

After the desktop appears - user’s keyboard and mouse actions are recorded



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Example script



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Recording - Snapshots

Desktop snapshots are recorded and mouseclicks are highlighted.



Next Generation of Applications - .NET & Java

Applications Server

Web Server

SOA (WS, ESB, Etc.)

Network Convergence

(VOIP, IP Video)

AJAX frameworks


Citrix

MicroSoft RDP

Citrix







Windows Presentation Foundation – What is it?

• WPF Technologies – New UI framework from Microsoft

– Windows Vista

– .Net 3.0



Windows Communication Foundation – What is it?

– Windows Communication Foundation, sometimes

shortened to just WCF, previously codenamed Indigo – A new communication subsystem to enable applications, in

one machine or across multiple machines connected by anetwork, to communicate.

– The WCF programming model unifies• Web Services

• .NET Remoting

• Distributed Transactions

• Message Queues



LoadRunner support for WCF

–WCF protocol support

– .NET 3.0 support




New scheduler

Old S h d l



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Old Scheduler

A fixed structure: Ramp Up – Duration - RampDown

Very hard to simulate real life behavior



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Dynamic Scheduler

Accurate load testing capabilities

Easy to simulate real life scheduling

Increased usability, more Flexible

First step towards automatic generation of real life

scenario from imported production data

D i S h d l C t t



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Dynamic Scheduler Contents

Multiple Ramp Ups / Downs

Easier to use• Interactive Graph - edit actions, drag, zoom

• Grid for detailed editing

Timeline at runtime

Pause/Resume scheduler

Full migration from LR 8.1



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Real Life Schedule

Each schedule (by scenario / by group) is composed of

a list of Actions:• Fixed actions – Start Group, Initialize

• Dynamic actions

– Start Vusers, Stop Vusers, Duration

– Can be used multiple times, in any order



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Vusers Quantity

Determined by the scheduler – not by the group !

• No Ramp Up “All”






SLA definition



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Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The user may define goals for the run on several

measurements, like:• Average transaction response time

• Total throughput (bytes) per run

The measurements are checked at run time, to see if thereis a violation

The results can be viewed in the Analysis application• Transactions success/failure to stand up to SLA expectations.

• Load Test SLA violations, and the time they occurred



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Service Level Agreement (SLA) – cont.

A wizard for easily defining SLA goals




Other




Protocol requests



HP

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