A TYPICAL SESSION WITH WEB PERFORMANCE TRAINER

The first step is to configure your browser to use Web Performance Trainer as a proxy server. Both Netscape and Internet Explorer, as well as other browsers, support the use of proxy servers. Web Performance Trainer sits between your browser and your web server, recording all communication between the browser and the web server.

STEP NO.2: RECORD A BUSINESS CASE

The next step is to think about how your users interact with your web site, and divide up the interactions into business or use cases.

Typical business cases include such things as:

1. Signing up for membership
2. Searching for a product
3. Purchasing a product
4. Visiting the product support page...

STEP NO. 3: DESCRIBE USAGE PATTERNS

The business cases can be grouped into any number of usage patterns to simulate current and future use of your web site. Each usage pattern can distribute the number of users among the business cases in different percentages, as well as change the connection speed of those users. Many testing tools simply play back interactions as fast as possible; in the real world data takes time to be transferred, and users need time to fill out forms.

STEP NO.4: RUN A TEST

Web Performance Trainer can generate over six million transactions a day, but most of the time you can get an accurate picture of the web server's performance in under ten minutes. Just specify a starting number of users, and Web Performance Trainer will increment that number automatically to get a picture of how the response time varies when the load changes.

STEP NO.5: GRAPH RESULTS

The graph shows ways of looking at performance data.

DISCOVER ALL THE CAPABILITIES OF WEB PERFORMANCE TRAINER

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