HP LoadRunner – how to use Virtual user generator.
1) Under Windows menu >> HP Software >> Click on Virtual user generator menu to open HP Virtual user generator application (if you already have HP LoadRunner is installed on machine)
2) Select the protocol – refer Snapshot 1 below,
Note 1: if you are not sure about the protocol, use the protocol adviser in the “Virtual user generator” application and scan the application to find out best matching protocols (refer Snapshot 2 below)
Note 2: for web applications usually “Web – HTTP/HTML” is the protocol, you add additional protocols for database e.g ODBC or Oracle.
Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2
3)
Click on create button in the above snapshot
2. Enter url as copied below in snapshot
3. Then Click start recording
Snapshot 3
4) Once your application pop us – start doing the business transactions which you wanted to do. You will see recording status is updated as below (adding time – below snapshot 4 shows 2.58 min recording )
Snapshot 4
5) Once the code is developed – HP LoadRunner Controller is used to setup the scenario – refer the Performance best practices to get the flow.