Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Introduction

• 1.1 About Oracle Load Testing
• 1.2 Feature Highlights
  • 1.2.1 The Problem with Traditional Load Testing Tools
• 1.3 Advantages of Oracle Load Testing
  • 1.3.1 TrueLoad Technology
  • 1.3.2 Reuse of Existing Visual Scripts
  • 1.3.3 User-Defined Virtual User Profiles
  • 1.3.4 Single Point of Control with Distributed Agents
  • 1.3.5 Data-Driven Load Testing
  • 1.3.6 Comprehensive Reports and Graphs
  • 1.3.7 Real Time Server-Side Statistics Monitoring
  • 1.3.8 Optimized for Popular IDEs
  • 1.3.9 Development-to-Deployment Testing

2 Planning for Load Testing

• 2.1 Goals of Scalability Testing
• 2.2 Phases of Scalability Testing
• 2.3 Criteria for Accurate Scalability Testing
• 2.4 Determine Additional Tools Required to Perform Testing and Diagnosis
• 2.5 Determining the Hardware Needed to Execute the Tests
• 2.6 Who Should be Responsible for Load Testing?
• 2.7 What to Avoid When Testing for Scalability
• 2.8 Performing Scalability Testing
  • 2.8.1 Define the Process
  • 2.8.2 Define the Criteria
  • 2.8.3 Planning the Scalability Tests
  • 2.8.4 Planning the Load Test Scenarios
  • 2.8.5 Create and Verify the Test Scripts
  • 2.8.6 Create and Verify the Load Test Scenarios
  • 2.8.7 Execute the Tests
  • 2.8.8 Evaluate the Results
  • 2.8.9 Generate Analysis Reports
• 2.9 Summary

3 Basics

• 3.1 Installing Oracle Load Testing
  • 3.1.1 Installing Oracle Load Testing
  • 3.1.2 Popup Blockers
  • 3.1.3 Port Configuration
  • 3.1.4 Installing Oracle Load Testing Agent
    • 3.1.4.1 Verify Network Access to Agent Systems
    • 3.1.4.2 Configuring Oracle Load Testing Agents
• 3.2 Installing the Linux Agent
• 3.3 Setting Up Servers for ServerStats
  • 3.3.1 Solaris SNMP Server
    • 3.3.1.1 Starting the SNMP Agent on Solaris 2.6/2.7
    • 3.3.1.2 Stopping the SNMP Agent
    • 3.3.1.3 Enabling SNMP Agent on Startup
  • 3.3.2 Oracle SNMP Server
    • 3.3.2.1 Configure Master Agent
    • 3.3.2.2 Configure the Encapsulator
    • 3.3.2.3 Verify the start_peer Script
    • 3.3.2.4 Start the SNMP Components
• 3.4 Installing Remote Data Collectors
• 3.5 Changing the Web Server Port
• 3.6 Using SSL
• 3.7 Oracle Application Testing Suite Tools Menu
• 3.8 Administrator
  • 3.8.1 Menu Options
    • 3.8.1.1 Tools Menu
    • 3.8.1.2 Help Menu
    • 3.8.1.3 Logout
  • 3.8.2 Users Tab
  • 3.8.3 Adding Users
  • 3.8.4 Editing Users
  • 3.8.5 Deleting Users
• 3.9 Main Window Features
  • 3.9.1 Overview of the Menu Options
    • 3.9.1.1 Scenario Menu
    • 3.9.1.2 Session Menu
    • 3.9.1.3 ServerStats Menu
    • 3.9.1.4 Tools Menu
    • 3.9.1.5 Manage Menu
    • 3.9.1.6 Help Menu
    • 3.9.1.7 Logout
  • 3.9.2 Toolbar
  • 3.9.3 Build Scenarios Tab
  • 3.9.4 Set Up Autopilot Tab
  • 3.9.5 Watch VU Grid Tab
  • 3.9.6 View Run Graphs Tab
  • 3.9.7 Create Reports Tab
• 3.10 Systems Manager
• 3.11 Defining Systems
  • 3.11.1 Adding New VU Agent Systems
  • 3.11.2 Adding New System Groups
  • 3.11.3 Adding Systems to Groups
  • 3.11.4 Adding New ServerStats Data Collectors
  • 3.11.5 Adding New Monitored Systems
    • 3.11.5.1 Configuring JMX Monitors
    • 3.11.5.2 Adding a Monitored System
  • 3.11.6 Renaming Systems
  • 3.11.7 Editing Systems
  • 3.11.8 Deleting Systems
• 3.12 Setting Options
  • 3.12.1 Custom Browser Options
  • 3.12.2 Setting Download Rules
  • 3.12.3 Repository Options
  • 3.12.4 Setting Scenario Defaults
  • 3.12.5 Setting Autopilot Defaults
  • 3.12.6 Setting Session Start and Stop Options
  • 3.12.7 Setting Session Profile Options
  • 3.12.8 Setting Reporting Options
  • 3.12.9 Setting Data Bank Defaults
  • 3.12.10 Setting General Options

4 Defining Virtual User Profiles

• 4.1 Default Profiles
• 4.2 Creating User-Defined Profiles
  • 4.2.1 Creating a New Virtual User Profile
    • 4.2.1.1 Adding Visual Scripts to the Sections Tree
    • 4.2.1.2 Adding Synchronization Points to the Sections Tree
    • 4.2.1.3 Moving Items in the Sections Tree
  • 4.2.2 Editing User-Defined Profiles
  • 4.2.3 Editing Synchronization Points

5 Defining Virtual User Scenarios

• 5.1 Defining Scenarios
  • 5.1.1 Selecting Profiles
  • 5.1.2 Specifying Scenario Profile Attributes
  • 5.1.3 Determining the Number of Virtual Users
  • 5.1.4 Managing Sessions
  • 5.1.5 Using the Data Bank Control
• 5.2 Using IP Spoofing
• 5.3 Working with Scenario Files
  • 5.3.1 Saving Scenarios
  • 5.3.2 Opening Existing Scenarios
  • 5.3.3 Renaming Scenarios
  • 5.3.4 Deleting Scenarios
  • 5.3.5 Removing Profiles From a Scenario
  • 5.3.6 Running Scenarios from the Command Line
    • 5.3.6.1 Error Handling
    • 5.3.6.2 Examples
• 5.4 Submitting Scenarios to Autopilot
  • 5.4.1 Submit without Starting the Scenario
  • 5.4.2 Submit and Start Scenario in Autopilot

6 Using the Autopilot

• 6.1 Specifying Start and Stop Settings
  • 6.1.1 Specifying When to Start Virtual Users
  • 6.1.2 Specifying When to Stop Virtual Users
• 6.2 Specifying Virtual User Rampup
  • 6.2.1 Specifying How Many Virtual Users to Start at a Time
  • 6.2.2 Examples
• 6.3 Manually Starting and Stopping the Autopilot
  • 6.3.1 Starting the Autopilot
  • 6.3.2 Stopping the Autopilot
• 6.4 Working with Virtual Users
  • 6.4.1 Overview of the Virtual Users Grid
  • 6.4.2 Controlling Individual Virtual Users
  • 6.4.3 Managing Synchronization points
    • 6.4.3.1 Releasing Individual Virtual Users
    • 6.4.3.2 Releasing Multiple Virtual Users
    • 6.4.3.3 Releasing Synchronization Points
  • 6.4.4 Modifying Run Attributes
  • 6.4.5 Viewing Server Warnings
  • 6.4.6 Stopping All Virtual Users
  • 6.4.7 Stopping the Autopilot From Starting New Virtual Users
  • 6.4.8 Aborting All Virtual Users

7 Using Graphs and Reports

• 7.1 Setting the Reporting Options
• 7.2 View Run Graphs Tab
• 7.3 Using the Performance Statistics
• 7.4 Using Run Graphs
  • 7.4.1 Viewing Runtime Statistics and Graphs
  • 7.4.2 Performance Vs. Users Graph
  • 7.4.3 Errors Vs. Users Graph
  • 7.4.4 Performance Vs. Time Graph
  • 7.4.5 Errors Vs. Time Graph
  • 7.4.6 Users Vs. Time Graph
  • 7.4.7 Users Vs. Time Graph
• 7.5 Using Data Counters
  • 7.5.1 Using Data Counters
• 7.6 Create Reports Tab
  • 7.6.1 Viewing Reports
  • 7.6.2 Exporting CSV Data
  • 7.6.3 Exporting to Excel
  • 7.6.4 Exporting to PDF
  • 7.6.5 Exporting to JPG
  • 7.6.6 Working With Graph Queries
    • 7.6.6.1 Saving Graph Queries
    • 7.6.6.2 Running a Saved Query
    • 7.6.6.3 Editing Queries
    • 7.6.6.4 Deleting Queries
  • 7.6.7 Creating Report Templates
    • 7.6.7.1 Creating a Custom Graph and Session List
• 7.7 Generating Summary Reports
  • 7.7.1 Scenario Reports
  • 7.7.2 Session Reports
• 7.8 Managing Session Data

8 Using the Virtual User Display

• 8.1 Starting the VU Display
• 8.2 Overview of the Main Window
  • 8.2.1 Overview of the Toolbar Options
  • 8.2.2 Overview of the Browser Pane
  • 8.2.3 Overview of the History List
• 8.3 Setting Virtual User Display Limits
• 8.4 Opening VU Display Logs
• 8.5 Downloading Log Files From the Server

9 Database and File Management

• 9.1 Database Management
  • 9.1.1 Adding an Oracle Database
  • 9.1.2 Selecting the Database to Use
  • 9.1.3 Removing Databases
  • 9.1.4 Updating Databases
• 9.2 Uploading Files
• 9.3 Downloading Files

10 Working With Sessions

• 10.1 Attaching to a Session
• 10.2 Detaching from a Session

A Internet Status Codes

• A.1 Server Status Codes
  • A.1.1 Information Codes
  • A.1.2 Success Codes
  • A.1.3 Redirection Codes
  • A.1.4 Failure Codes
  • A.1.5 Server Error Codes
• A.2 Internet Codes
  • A.2.1 Internet Error Codes
  • A.2.2 FTP API Error Codes
  • A.2.3 Gopher API Error Codes
  • A.2.4 HTTP API Error Codes
  • A.2.5 Additional Information

B Error Messages

• B.1 Viewing Error Codes
• B.2 Error Messages
• B.3 RSWISERV Errors
• B.4 Obtaining Support Files
• B.5 Oracle Application Testing Suite Application Service Messages
  • B.5.1 Agents are Orphaned
  • B.5.2 Server is Not Initialized
  • B.5.3 Unable to Start Session
• B.6 Problems During Load Testing
  • B.6.1 Cannot Open Scenario
  • B.6.2 Unable to Start Agent Session
  • B.6.3 Performance Problems During the Load Test
  • B.6.4 Unexpected Agent Exit in the VU Grid
• B.7 Data Collector Startup Errors

Index