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Tool Evaluation for Tool Evaluation for LoadRunnerLoadRunner

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Table of Contents

Vendor Information

Technologies supported

Tool features

Result Reporting

Cost

Pros and Cons

Recommendations

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Vendor Information

Vendor Name Mercury Interactive, Inc

Vendor Office Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California 94089 USA

Vendor URL www.mercuryinteractive.com

Support Information

Technical Support services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with full on-site support from 8am - 8pm EST. Product support is located at the company headquarters in Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Toll-free Telephone: (408)822-5200

Local Telephone: 91-80-5260761 / 5288101

Local Fax: (408)822-5300

Mercury Interactive customers can also go on-line to view technical information, read or download product documentation, search and download fixes to known problems, order maintenance tapes and new product releases, and directly e-mail us with problems or comments.

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Technologies Supported

OS

Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000

MVS(OS/390),HP/UX

Solaris/Sun OS/Linux

Hardware

300 MHz or higher Pentium Processor.

Disk Space 200MB, RAM 128MB+

Applications Supported

Database: ADO, DB2 UDB, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, ODBC

Distributed: CORBA, TUXEDO, Windows Sockets, MS Exchange

ERP: Oracle Applications, SAP R/3, PeopleSoft

E-commerce: HTTP, SSL, Digital Certificates, IIOP, FTP

Legacy: VT100-520

Language Supported

Java Applets and applications, Active X, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Forte, C/C++, Delphi.

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Tools Features

Predict system performance

Find bottlenecks with repeatable testing

Manage global load test from central point of control

Prove application scalability

Create realistic load test quickly

Measure production readiness

Comprehensive analysis

LoadRunner is comprised of 3 independent modules: VUGenerator, Controller and Analyzer which gives it flexibility to record, execute and analyze separately.

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Result Reporting

LoadRunner enables testers to insert checkpoints into scripts to identify and review specific areas of system performance for a test. LoadRunner displays test results in a variety of reports, graphs and charts.

The data from a testing session can also be automatically exported to office automation packages or custom analysis programs for further review.

Get the real time results during execution itself using Controller, to better understand the application behavior, which is then comprehensibly summarized in Analyzer section.

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Cost (Not Updated)

50 Users - $56,640

100 Users - $70,800

250 Users - $85,000

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Pros

It can supports

Database: ADO, DB2 UDB, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, ODBC

Distributed: CORBA, TUXEDO, Windows Sockets, MS Exchange

ERP: Oracle Applications, SAP R/3, PeopleSoft

E-commerce: WAP-HTTP, SSL, Digital Certificates, IIOP, FTP.

Legacy: VT100-52

OS: Windows, Unix

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Cons

Very High Cost for good number of Users.

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Recommendation

It is recommended to use different checkpoints for different transactions for better analysing the transaction results.

It is recommended to use ‘URL’ based recording for all web based applications.

Login part of the application should be recorded in the ‘Init’ section of the scripting where as all the transactions should be recorded in the ‘Action’ section for multiple iterations.

User should always be logged out in the ‘End’ section of the script.

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