What is Loadrunner ? :
What is Loadrunner ? It is Flagship Load testing product from Mercury now acquired by HP
It commands more than 70% Market Share in load testing tools
You can even use it as a “cloud “ based service
Main Competitors are OpenSTA, WebLoad , NEOLoad etc.
Types of Protocols Supported :
Types of Protocols Supported Loadrunner supports the most exhaustive types of protocols as compared to any other product in the market
With new releases , the supported protocols type are increased. Distributed Components: COM/DCOM, Corba-Java, and Rmi-Java protocols.
E-business:
FTP, LDAP, Palm, SOAP, Web (HTTP/HTML),Web/Winsocket Dual Protocol.
Enterprise Java Beans:
EJB Testing and Rmi-Java protocols.
ERP:
Baan, Oracle NCA, Peoplesoft- Tuxedo, SAP, Siebel-DB2 CLI, Siebel
MSSQL, and Siebel Oracle protocols. Mailing Services: Internet Messaging (IMAP), MS Exchange (MAPI), POP3,
and SMTP.
Middleware: Jacada and the Tuxedo (6, 7) protocols.
Streaming Data: Media Player (MMS) and Real protocols.
Wireless: For i-Mode, VoiceXML, and WAP protocols.
Legacy:
Terminal Emulation (RTE).
What use LoadRunner ? :
What use LoadRunner ? Suppose are assigned to load test eBAY website for 10000 users accessing the site at the same time – a very normal load for a site like eBAY
Now, you can not possibly arrange 10000 human users at different PC’s all accessing eBAY at the same time.
What you need a is some software which could simulate these 10000 users for you.
Enter LOADRUNNER!
LR architecture :
LR architecture Controller Load Generator - Vuser Monitoring & Analysis Tool It is a 3 tier Architecture-
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