Performance Testing with LoadRunner Focus

If you need to run a Unix command on a remote server with a LoadRunner script (running on Windows), then there is a neat program called plink that you will find very useful. If you use any variety of Unix, you will probably already by using PuTTY; well plink is is distributed with PuTTY, and [...]

Everyone should already know that you can run a command-line program from a LoadRunner script using the system() function. If you have used this, you would already know that things become a little awkward when need to capture the output of the program. The common solution is to pipe the output of the command to [...]

I had always wanted to work at a company that had a library of intereresting/educational books I could borrow; so when I started at JDS Australia in late 2005, I brought in a few of my technical books in case anyone else wanted to borrow them. Gradually other people brought in books too, until there [...]

On increasingly rare occasions, you might be required to load test an application that has a Java-based client. While it’s nice for users to have an application that has a rich GUI, it will probably lead to a world of pain for you as a performance tester. Don’t immediately reach for LoadRunner’s Java Record-Replay virtual [...]

I like posting LoadRunner code snippets on My Load Test and, judging by the emails and comments that I get, a lot of people find them really useful. To make my code more readable, I have added syntax highlighting that uses the same colours you see in VuGen. If you would like to download a [...]

I just got back from the US after presenting at HP Software Universe 2010. I will save the content of my presentation for another time, so this is a quick overview of what I saw at the Conference and some of the things I learned from the people who attended. Conference Overview HP really know [...]