L.R_Rendezvous Point and Tools

Redezvous point is used in Load Runner when we do performance Testing. 

Rendezvous Point instructs Vusers To wait till all vusers come to a certain point and proceed together. The purpose of using Rendezvous point is to see how the particular transaction of the application responds with
loads.

Ex: On a bank application.

Tester wants to see the performance of the system if 1000 users try to deposit in their accounts one time. We instruct 1000 vuser to login and do some deposit transaction to their respective accounts.

because each user has different connection and sys config, they would reach goals with little time difference or may reach all at once. when we insert rendezvous point right before deposit transaction, loadrunner pauses the vusers who ever reach that point(login and see their account, about to deposit) and waits for all other vusers to reach to that particular
point.

Example:             lr_rendezvous("Meeting");
    do_transaction(); /* application dependent transaction */

Load Testing Tools Available:

•          Load Runner   :  HP (Formerly Mercury Interactive)

•          e-Load         :Emprix

•          Silk Performer : Borland (Seague)

•          QALoad       : Compuware

•          Rational Performance Tester : IBM Rational

•          Web Load    : Radview

•          Neo Load     : Neotys

•          Open STA     : Open Source.

 

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