whats new in LR 11.5

© Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

Shane Evans

Product Manager – HP LoadRunner


New Features Demo

HP LoadRunner

Shane Evans, Product Manager

June 2012

© Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. 3

This is a rolling (up to three year) roadmap and is subject to change without notice.

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This is a rolling (up to three year) roadmap and is subject to change without notice.

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Agenda

TruClient updates Demo!

•Community integration

•Solution explorer

•Correlation studio

•Step navigator

•Customizable layouts

•Correlation engine

•Async

•Function reuse

•New APIs

•TruClient for IE9

•Async (push/pull/long poll)

•JavaScript engine

New VuGen Web/HTTP enhancements

Demo! Demo!


Virtual User Generator 11.5


Community

Brand New VuGen

Search the community from within VuGen


Brand new VuGen

The Solution Explorer enables easy access and manipulation of other script assets such as parameters, runtime settings, and replay runs.

Key features

• Solution bundles a group of scripts.

• All the assets of the script are displayed within the script node in the tree.

• Right-click opens a context menu of all the operations available for an asset.

• Double-click “activates” an asset (e.g. opens an action in the editor).

Solution Explorer


Brand new VuGen

The snapshot view enables the user to view the snapshots captured during recording or replay of the script.

Key features

• Common look and feel of all the snapshots within the Snapshot View.

• Split view synchronization.

• Brand new snapshot content displayed for most step types (i.e. Xml Viewer, Buffer Viewer, Image Viewer, revised HTTP Viewer, etc…).

New snapshot view


Brand new VuGen

A pane that enables quick navigation between steps in the script as well as filtering and searching according to their properties.

Key features

• Search per script or action

• Step context menu

• Thumbnail view

• Sync with other panes

Step navigator


Brand new VuGen

Major enhancements:

• Code completion list

• Syntax highlight for the C code

• Highlighting of the Step parameters

• Collapsing of user-defined functions

• Tooltips display information for user-defined functions, parameters, etc.

Script editor


Brand new VuGen

• Breakpoint pane - displays the list of breakpoints in all opened actions

• Callback - contains the list of stack frames according to the current debugger source position

• Watch - manages user defined watch expressions

Debug panes


• Ability to customize the appearance of the interface in VuGen.

• Information about window’s size, position, docking, state (opened or hidden) is saved under the current layout name

Layouts

Brand new VuGen


New correlation engine


Correlations

Record based automatic correlation

1. Record once!

2. No need to replay

3. Scan script for correlation

4. Correlate from UI (new correlation studio)

Record (response) based correlation


Correlations

New correlation studio hosts everything in one place:

• Record based correlations

• Replay based correlations

• Correlation rules

• Correlation from snapshot

New correlation studio


New correlation studio

Correlations


Correlations

LoadRunner 11.50

• web_reg_save_param_ex()

• Enhanced web_reg_save_param()

• Smart scoping for formatted data (DFE)

• web_reg_save_param_XPath()

• Correlate by XPath

• web_reg_save_param_regexp()

• Correlate by regular expression (Perl syntax standards)

LoadRunner 11.0

web_reg_save_param()

New correlation API’s


TruClient Firefox New features


TruClient Firefox Async

• Auto end event

• Minimum time & record think time

• Global event handlers


TruClient Firefox

Function reuse and sharing

Key features

• Create functions

• Create functions library

• Call functions from every script


TruClient Firefox

Filter URL – black/white list of URLs

• Utils.addAutoFilter

• Utils.removeAutoFilter

• Utils.cleanupAutoFilters

Add custom HTTP headers

• Utils.addAutoHeader

• Utils.removeAutoHeader

• Utils.cleanupAutoHeaders

Manage transactions via API

• LR.startTransaction

• LR.endTransaction (including status)

APIs

New APIs


TruClient Internet Explorer 9


Web/HTTP asynchronous calls


Async

• Push: Client gets information from the server as

soon as the server updates. Client maintains a connection to the server.

• Polling: Client “polls” the server for an update at

specific intervals. The server replies whether or not there is an update.

• Long polling: Client “polls” the server for an update. The

server holds the response to the request until it has an update

Async support patterns for web (HTTP/HTML)


Push example

Async


Web/HTTP Javascript engine


JS engine

JS Engine enables running of JavaScript code during the execution of a web (HTTP/HTML) Vuser.

• Enables running XMLHTTPRequest - from JavaScript code

• Can also use for various code tasks such as string manipulation

DOM-less JavaScript execution


XMLHTTPRequest_sync_sample.js

… web_js_run( "Code=getQuotes(LR.getParam('symbol'));", "ResultParam=param", SOURCES, "File=XMLHTTPRequest_sync_sample.js", ENDITEM, LAST); …

var req2; function getQuotes(mySymbol) { var myURL= "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/...csv"; req2 = false; // branch for native XMLHttpRequest object try { req2 = new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch(e) { req2 = false; } if(req2) { req2.open("GET", myURL, false); req2.send(""); } return 1*req2.responseText; }

Action.c

Through XHR object VUser inquires Yahoo! about latest stock rates for the companies saved in “symbol” parameter.

JS engine Using XMLHTTPRequest


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