Defining Vuser Activities
Understanding LoadRunner · Load Test Planning
LoadRunner Controller User's Guide (Windows)
Chapter 3, page 58
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Defining Vuser Activities
Create Vuser scripts based on your analysis of Vuser types, their typical tasks and
your test objectives. Since Vusers emulate the actions of a typical end-user, the
Vuser scripts should include the typical end-user tasks. For example, to emulate a
manager, you should create a Vuser manager script that performs typical manager
tasks.
You decide which tasks to measure based on your test objectives and define
transactions
for these tasks. Transactions measure the time that it takes for the
server to respond to tasks submitted by Vusers (end-to-end time). For example, to
check the response time of a bank clerk checking an account balance, define a
transaction for this task in the clerk Vuser script.
In addition, you can emulate peak activity by using
rendezvous
points in your script.
Rendezvous points
instruct multiple Vusers to perform tasks at exactly the same
time. For example, you can define a rendezvous to emulate 70 users
simultaneously updating account information.
