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Chapter 5 - Executing Tests

When you run a suite, you specify:

Number of virtual testers, if you are running a performance testing suite.

If a suite includes both fixed and scalable user groups, the fixed user groups are
assigned first. So, for example, if your suite includes one user group fixed at 10
virtual testers, and you run 100 virtual testers, 10 virtual testers are assigned to the
fixed user group, and the remaining 90 virtual testers are distributed among the
scalable user groups.

Note:

The number of available virtual testers depends on the type of license you

have. If your license does not support the number of virtual testers you specify, an
error message appears.

Number of computers on which to run the suite and a list of available computers,
if you are running a functional testing suite and have not specified resources.

Log information, including build number, log folder, and log file name.

By default, the name of the log folder is based on the suite, and the log name is
based on the number of virtual testers and the number of times you have run the
suite. For example, if you run the sample suite three times, with 10 virtual testers,
15 virtual testers, and 20 virtual testers, all three test logs will be in the sample
suite folder. The log names will be Users 10 #01, Users 15 #02, and Users 20 #03.
Therefore, the log name Users 20 #03 indicates that this is the third time you have
run the suite, and the suite is being run with 20 virtual testers.

You can change these settings on the

Run

tab of the Options dialog box. For more

information, see the TestManager Help.

Resource monitoring.

When you monitor a suite, TestManager records how computer resources are used
and then graphs this usage data over the corresponding virtual tester response
times when you run a Response vs. Time report. Specify the interval at which
monitoring views are updated; the lower the interval, the faster the update.

Whether to ignore associated configurations.

Select the

Ignore configurations for test cases

check box to have TestManager

ignore the configurations and to run the test cases on any available computers.

TestManager has three ways of running test cases if this option is selected:

If the selected test case has configured test cases and an implementation (for
example, a test script or suite), TestManager runs the selected test case on any
available computer but does not run any of the configured test cases.