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LoadRunner and Flex applications - II

meena — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:34:16 +0000

This is a follow up of the previous posting about LoadRunner and Flex applications. The issue with LoadRunner interfereing with the Flex application during recording was solved. It had been an issue with the recording engine.

Two solutions were offered by HP and the first one worked fine.

Changing the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mercury Interactive\LoadRunner\Protocols\HTTP\Analyzer in the registry and set AddNoCacheHeaderToHtml to 0.

The second solution offerred was to go under recording options –> Network –> Port Mapping –> set Capture Level to “WinINet level data”.

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Resources

meena — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:23:56 +0000

Some applications I cannot work without:

1. Fiddler2 (http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/)
Recently used this tool to verify responses from a Flex application on Internet Explorer. The website has details on how to read responses in case of HTTPs site.

2. Live HTTP Headers (Firefox addin)
Have been using this tool on Firefox before starting to use Fiddler2 on IE. Quite a useful tool to reconfirm LoadRunner scripts and length of responses. Helped me before we had the Flex addin to run Load tests on Flex applications. (I did have fun with all the binary data.. would make sense to anyone who has tried this. Definitely not pretty.)

3. PSPad (Best Code Editor)
Pspad is one of the best code editors I have ever used. I find the Find and Replace window of this tool extremely useful especially the “List” and “Count” options on there. Also find very useful the “Search/Replace in Files” to make bulk edits to multiple scripts. Especially adding comments and other stuff at one shot. Very nice tool.

4. Winsnap (Screen shot tool)
A very cute tool and makes excellent screen shots with borders and shadows. Small footprint and very easy to use. I have been using this tool since the days that it was free.

5. CCleaner (System cleaning tool)
Best cleaner I have ever used for registry cleaning. Never had an issue with it and has been very very easy to use. Trustworthy!

6. ASAP Utilities (Excel Addin)
Asap Utilities is an addin for Microsoft Excel. Gives a bunch of functions to handle worksheets, data, ranges, etc etc almost anything you can think of doing with data on Excel. Makes it a breeze to analyze raw data from LoadRunner Analysis.

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LoadRunner and Flex applications

meena — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:27:52 +0000

I am continuing to test Flex applications with LoadRunner 9.1. What I have noticed recently is that during recording sometimes LoadRunner seems to interfere with the application. The application stops responding to data retrieval and gives the message that server is not responding. I am not entirely sure if the interference is only at the flash player level or at the request-response level. I have put in a support case with HP and still waiting for their response.

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