Selecting Vusers
Understanding LoadRunner · Load Test Planning
LoadRunner Controller User's Guide (Windows)
Chapter 3, page 59
Selecting Vusers
Before you decide on the hardware configuration to use for testing, determine the
number and type of Vusers required. To decide how many Vusers and which types
to run, look at the typical usage model, combined with the testing objectives. Some
general guidelines are:
·
Use one or a few GUI users to emulate each type of typical user connection.
·
Use RTE Vusers to emulate terminal users.
·
Run multiple DB Vusers to generate the rest of the load for each user type.
For example, suppose that you have five kinds of users, each performing a
different business process:
Usage Model
GUI
DB
RTE
100 customer service users in New York
(LAN connection)
2
98
_
30 customers in Europe
(dial-in ISDN connection)
2
28
_
5 background batch processes
_
5
_
150 customers
(terminal connection)
_
_
150
6 managers
(2 users with 486 PCs, 4 with 586 PCs)
1 (486 PC)
1 (586 PC)
4
_
