Wiki Page: Best practices for script and results reuse in SilkPerformer
Problem:Best practices for script and results reuse in SilkPerformerResolution:ANSWER ----------------------------------Synopsis: It is good practice to develop your load testing scripts so as to...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I exclude timers from results if an error has occurred...
Problem:How can I exclude timers from results if an error has occurred within the code being timed?Resolution:ANSWER ---------------------------------- You may, for example, want to exclude timers for...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does the Virtual User Output File show rendered HTML instead...
Problem:Why does the Virtual User Output File show rendered HTML instead of parsed data when I try to use WebParseDataBound function to parse a whole page of text?Resolution:QUESTION...
View ArticleWiki Page: What are the errors which can occur when the loadtest controller...
Problem:What are the errors which can occur when the loadtest controller attempts to connect to agents?Resolution:QUESTION ---------------------------------- What are the errors which can occur when...
View ArticleWiki Page: Browser Driven Load Testing recorder is not recording HTML5 text...
There is a known issue in SilkPerformer 9.0, 9.5 and 10.0 where a browser driven load testing recording does not record a BrowserSetText function for specific types of html 5 text field controls. The...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Clean up my report description section of the Overview Report
I recommend that to do this you save as an .htm page and manipulate from there. Something like the attached (you’ll need to fiddle around with the formatting to get it to display how you want but the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: SilkPerformer and Progress
I assume you are talking about - www.progress.com/.../index.htmlI can’t recall having seen mention of this specifically but to test client server applications there are a few things you need to know...
View ArticleWiki Page: How do I bind a script variable to Dynamic SQL ?
You need to use ::VarName when binding a variable, or "::VarName" when it is a string data type.Please see the sample code...
View ArticleWiki Page: How much memory do I need for each Virtual User
This information is contained directly in Silk Performer help under the title: "Memory Footprints by Application Type"There is also a section "Performance and Scalability Matrix" which gives guidance...
View ArticleWiki Page: Try Script takes a long time to run when loading .jar files?
Resolution:When running a Tryscript against some applications it might take a long time to complete compared to the same steps which were recorded. Some applications (such as Oracle Forms) can use a...
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Forum Post: RE: Java Explorer - some parameter comes as BigDecimal type and...
To use a BigDecimal variable:1) Type java.math.BigDecimal into the address bar, press enter or click "Load"2) select a suitable constructor of BigDecimal from the classes tree and invoke it3) Store the...
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Forum Post: RE: Java Explorer - How can i see the SOAP response of request.
If the web service call returns a complex object, you can store it as variable.You can then explore the content of the variable by right clicking it in the Objects tree and selecting Quick Info....
View ArticleWiki Page: How to convert the SilkPerformer Overview Report (.tsd format) to...
The easiest method to convert an Overview Report (.tsd file) into HTML format is to use Performance Explorer’s "View as HTML" option:Go to "VIEW | VIEW AS HTML"Once the Overview Report has opened in a...
View ArticleWiki Page: Silk Performer 9.5 reports WebPageForm(WebEngine: 100 -...
Due to a known issue, Silk Performer 9.5 might report the warning "WebPageForm(WebEngine: 100 - Uncompressing content failed., internal error-code: -3)" followed by verification errors such as...
View ArticleForum Post: How do I emulate PIV card access?
I'm working for a government client who is in the process of implementing Personal Identity Verification cards. The process is still some months away, but in the mean time we're wondering if any other...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: WebParseDataBoundArray Result
It did exactly what you asked it to do. I think it's better to set the left boundary to be "<option value=\"" and right boundary be "\">". If you do, you will have 7_eng, 11_eng, 11_jpn, 10_eng,...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Parsing XML Attributes while Recording
Dear RodL,by original bounds CANONICALID gets parsed..for example initially silk parsed CANONICALID whle recording as,WebParseDataBoundEx(gsCANONICALID, STRING_COMPLETE, "<CANONICALID>", 16,...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How do I clear old searches from the seach drop down list in...
Quickest way is probably to wipe:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Silk\SilkPerformer\9.5\Silk Performer\WorkspaceIt will be recreated automatically with default values, next time your start the workbench.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: user or the activity count falls under each category of...
Hmm the closest thing that comes to my mind to get percentiles per user is something like this:// Transactions Sectiondcltrans transaction TInit begin MeasureCalculateRawPercentiles(NULL,...
View ArticleForum Post: How to increase length of left boundary in Silk performer...
I want to capture a string having left boundary more that 40 characters using Recording Rule as Silk performer is not accepting more than 40 characters in Recording Rule. It shows last 40 Characters of...
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