For organizations using and customizing Salesforce, performance testing can be very difficult—and frustrating. In addition to not having any control over third-party app servers and their loads, organizations must meet restrictions imposed by Salesforce to reduce the impact on other customers. Performance test plans also require advance evaluation and approval. Yet, companies that curtail performance… Continue reading Performance Testing Custom Salesforce Deployments
Author: Stacy Simmons, Performance Testing Consultant at Orasi Software
A VuGen Solution for Timing HTTP Redirects
When performance testing demonstrates a bottleneck in an integration that is seamless to the end user, how do you pinpoint where the problem lies? On a recent project, I was asked to test the addition of a survey hosted at a third-party site. Once the user completed the survey and was redirected back to the… Continue reading A VuGen Solution for Timing HTTP Redirects
Extracting Histogram Data from HP LoadRunner 12.01
A histogram is a statistical graph used to show the number of times data, inside a collection, falls within a particular range. In performance testing, you can use a frequency distribution histogram to illustrate the frequency and dispersion of transaction times. In this example we will report on a transaction, which is a cause for… Continue reading Extracting Histogram Data from HP LoadRunner 12.01
Creating a Running Vuser Graph in Excel
I recently encountered an obstacle when trying to import server metrics into LoadRunner Analysis for use in a report for a customer. To work around the problem, I decided to create my graphs in Excel. Easy enough. My metrics were in a .CSV file with data points for time and usage. I used the time… Continue reading Creating a Running Vuser Graph in Excel