TrueSight Load Test Adapter enables you to drive accurate and relevant load testing based on real traffic patterns as seen in production.
TrueSight Load Test Adapter helps you to save time and money while generating more value from your existing investments in load-testing.
Load and stress testing a Web application effectively is challenging. There are many tools that provide the capability to create and run test scripts, but they usually require deep application knowledge and a varying degree of manual intervention. Moreover, test scripts are usually created to reflect your application's most obvious usage pattern which often differs significantly from what really goes on in your production environment. The end result is that load and stress tests often fail to properly identify application bottlenecks which cause failure in production when faced with real-world usage patterns.
Ensuring a reliable Web application deployment requires a means of generating traffic patterns that accurately reflect your production environment in a format that can be used to drive load and stress tests.
One very popular script-based load simulation tool is HP LoadRunner™. Given the proper script definitions, this tool can recreate a wide range of load and stress scenarios. However, these scripts can take time to create and are frequently hard to define accurately, often requiring deep knowledge of the application. More importantly, they require that the test engineer accurately predicts and anticipates the usage patterns that will be served once the application reaches production.
At Coradiant, we believe that relevant load tests can only be created from the real-world traffic you are trying to model. Once you have that traffic, you can base your scripts on actual behavior patterns instead of artificial ones that might not represent reality at all. Analyzing the traffic and extracting the best click-path candidates for load testing requires complex path analysis. The problem can be summarized as a simple formula:
To solve that equation, you need TrueSight® Load Test Adapter from Coradiant.
TrueSight Load Test Adapter is a turnkey virtual appliance that has been added to the Coradiant TrueSight family of Web Application Performance Management solutions. It makes load testing of web applications faster, more accurate, and less costly without the need for deep application knowledge or expensive consultants. Load Test Adapter generates accurate HP LoadRunner™ test scripts derived from real-world traffic captured from a live production environment. The ease of this process drives faster testing cycles that produce more accurate results, thus helping to find capacity problems before your application is deployed into production.
Load Test Adapter leverages TrueSight's passive session capture capabilities to obtain relevant production traffic. The traffic is then analyzed and the most frequently used click paths are automatically isolated along with the requests that generated the highest traffic volume, allowing test engineers to select the most relevant click paths and auto-generate HP LoadRunner compatible scripts.
Setting up Load Test Adapter to generate a script has been reduced to a simple 3-step process. Consequently, scripts are generated with minimal effort, ready for import into the LoadRunner tool where they can be further modified as usual. No guessing or heavy lifting. Just simple scripts that finally represent real-world scenarios.
Eliminate guesswork from your script building process and let your load testing do the job it was meant to do — apply real-world scenarios against your application. Start getting the most out of your existing investment in load-testing tools. TrueSight Load Test Adapter is that fastest way to produce relevant and useful scripts with minimal effort. And you don't need deep knowledge of the application being tested to produce successful scripts. Use paths that you know to be most popular. Stop guessing.
