This is the story of how I became a consultant and started consulting for multiple companies after working for one company for years. CommerceQuest In late 1999, I left Deloitte to join one of the first Mercury services partners. They were building a team focused on...
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# EXE test harness, which made the calls automatically...
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...
I often encounter an age-old hassle over monitoring servers and infrastructure under test. Being a performance engineer, I need to see system resources for the application in real-time as a test is running. Sometimes the company does not know about all the...
A few weeks ago, I released the LoadRunner Best Practices for Scripting, Testing, Analysis, and Organization which you can find by clicking here. I received a lot of feedback from the community, and it went over pretty well. Someone requested that I create one for the...
I’ve been using LoadRunner since version 4.0 (wow, has it been that long already). Over the years, I’ve learned from the many mistakes made on prior projects and engagements. Many of my friends who are also performance engineers have learned some of the...
