Automating Custom Desktop Applications With LoadRunner

Automating Custom Desktop Applications With LoadRunner

Automating Custom Desktop Applications With LoadRunner Start With A Non-Standard Application I had to create a web virtual user script for a desktop application that made REST API calls to a Microsoft IIS web server over HTTP. The company had created a Microsoft C#...
LoadRunner Analysis Tips and Tricks

LoadRunner Analysis Tips and Tricks

This is a classic session from my YouTube channel. I am demonstrating how I use LoadRunner Analysis to pull out the “truth” from the result of a performance test. Even though it is from 2016 and an older version of LoadRunner (version 12.53), I believe it...
Career Advice To My Younger Self

Career Advice To My Younger Self

I was recently asked to share some career advice for an employee at a company I was working with to help them decide their career path. They were undecided about whether they should take a management role in QA, or dive deeper technically and go into performance...
Neoload And Citrix: The Performance Revolution Is Here

Neoload And Citrix: The Performance Revolution Is Here

Neoload and Citrix? That’s right! Neotys has announced support for the Citrix protocol as BETA in the Neoload 7.1 release. What does this mean for performance engineers? What does it mean for the software testing industry? I think I know… How did we get...
Web Server Logs Are Stuck In the 90’s!

Web Server Logs Are Stuck In the 90’s!

W3C Compliance Web server logs suck! Every W3C compliant web server is supposed to have a “time taken” field available to reveal how long the web server took to process/serve a resource. However, by default, Apache and many other UNIX based web servers do not have...
Performance Testing QUIC (HTTP/3)

Performance Testing QUIC (HTTP/3)

Performance Testing QUIC was my presentation at the Neotys Virtual PAC in 2019. This blog references the full documentation of research from August 2019. It documents efforts to perform a load test against a web site that supported the latest version of HTTP/3 at the...