Audience

• Performance Engineers
• Technical Managers
• Software Engineers

PreRequisites

• STLR-135 LoadRunner Concepts
• Some basic programming knowledge would be useful, however it is not mandatory

Topics

1. Planning a Script
   • Determining what steps to perform
   • Consider data and data usage
2. Recording a Script
   • Recording Options – HTML vs. URL recording
   • Recording the test case
3. Transactions
   • Add Transactions during recording
   • Add Transactions after recording using the transaction workflow tool, and manually via the keyword view
4. Verifications
   • Why is a verification point necessary
   • Add a verification during recording
   • Add a verification after recording using the keyword view screenshots
   • Global Verification Points
5. Run-Time Settings
   • Setting appropriate logging option
   • Controlling the number of iterations to playback
   • Think times and Pacing settings
   • Other settings
6. Parameters
   • Adding Parameters in the keyword view, and in the script view
   • Create a file type parameter
   • Examine other parameter types, e.g. Random type, date time type
   • File parameter access methods
   • Update Parameter value settings
   • Simulate Parameter Usage
7. Correlation After Recording
   • Required Settings
   • Run the test, examine errors
   • Use the Scan for Correlations tool
   • Determine which values to correlate
   • Correlate
   • Review the correlation functions added to the script
8. Manual Correlations
   • Required settings
   • Run the test and examine the errors to determine which commands to focus on
   • Determine which of the values is the dynamic one
   • Determine where the server sent the dynamic value
   • Determine appropriate left and right boundaries and ordinal values
   • Add the web_reg_save_param function
   • Replace hard-coded dynamic values with the new parameter
   • Run the test to validate
9. Correlation during Recording
   • Add a rule to the recording options
   • Test the rule
   • Record the script
   • Use of the regenerate script option
10. Intro to Advanced Scripting
    • Condition statements and loops
    • Variable declarations
    • Common string manipulation functions
    • Data conversion functions
    • LoadRunner specific functions (lr_eval_string, output messages, lr_save_string)
11. Custom Checkpoints
    • Examining the web_reg_find savecount option
    • Capturing data using the web_reg_save_param function

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