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Inserting a Selector

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Chapter 10 - Designing Performance Testing Suites

To insert a scenario into a suite:

Click where you want to place the scenario and then click

Suite > Insert > Scenario

Note:

For detailed procedures, see the TestManager Help.

After you have created the scenario and before you add the scenario to a user group, it
is a good idea to populate the scenario. A scenario requires only test scripts to run.
However, like a user group, a realistic scenario may also contain selectors, delays,
synchronization points, and transactors. A scenario can even contain other scenarios.

Inserting a Suite into a Suite

Although you generally use suites that contain user (rather than computer) groups in
performance testing, you can insert a suite that contains computer groups into
another suite. The advantage of inserting a suite into a suite is that changes that you
make to the child suite are persistent. So, for example, you can insert a group of test
scripts into a computer-based suite, use the group in many different suites, but update
the suite only once.

For more information, see Inserting a Suite into a Suite on page 210.

Inserting a Selector

TestManager allows you to set suite items to run in different sequences by setting a
selector. A selector provides more sophisticated control than running a simple sequence
of consecutive items in a suite. A selector tells TestManager which items each virtual
tester executes and in what sequence. For example, you might want to repeatedly
select a test script at random from a group of test scripts. A selector helps you to do
this.