Hi All,

We received a good question from one of our customer. The question is

Why should i parameterize the transactions in Load Testing ?

It is indeed a nice question. Actually his question is, i am not configuring those parameters while recording. Then how do i know what are the parameters it takes and its value.

Here is the solution. Yes the user don't know what are all the parameters it takes while submitting a page. Hence in QEngine we introduced a feature called Auto parameterization.

What is Auto Parameterization ?

Auto parameterization facilitates to automatically extract the parameters from the associated reference page and use it while submitting the particular page to the server.
This is what happens while submitting the page while browsing in the browser.

This feature will work perfectly for most cases.

But for some cases the server may require unique value for each virtual user. In those cases, you may be required to parameterize value for the username, password and those parameters which you input during recording in the browser.

For this QEngine easy to use user interface namely Parameterization screen. It will list all the parameters for each URL separately, thus user can easily configure the value for the parameters. QEngine provides various options to parameterize such as Dataset / Cookie / Java script / Previous Response Content / HTML Element / Random values etc.

To know more on parameterization look at the below URL:
http://www.manageengine.com/products/qengine/performance-testing.html

There are still more improvements can be done in parameterization. This will happen in future QEngine releases.

Raghavan


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