Wiki Page: Why do the totals in the "Top 10 Slowest Web Pages" in the...
The values in the "Top 10 Slowest Web Pages" are calculated based on the Total Count (i.e. total transactions including any warm-up and cool-down period). The values in the "Page Times" section are...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does a Citrix Event Handler not exit the execution during a...
When using a Citrix Event Handler which calls either error severity SEVERITY_TRANS_EXIT or SEVERITY_PROCESS_EXIT on an event the script may continue in "executing" mode instead of exiting the process...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: HTTP PATCH Method in silkperformer scripting
The payload is in json form which needs to be passed. With WebCustomRequest , we can pass the payload which will be in name:=value combination., but here it is different. So it wont work with...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does creating and setting a new active profile cause load test...
This is a limitation within Silk Performer 7.0 and 7.1 that when a new application profile is created and used the SAP GUI display is run for each virtual user. There are two methods to workaround this...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does dynaTrace not display all of the java exception classes ?
By default the "Dynatrace Agent Sensor" settings exclude classes starting with Java., Sun. and Javax. However you can configure these settings so that it is possible to configure which throwable...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does GetFirstError function not report an error?
This function will retrieve the first error from the error stack. The error stack is per function call and allows to you retrieve not only the last error reported but all errors of one erroneous...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does Help state that "Windows Home or Professional editions...
This is a documentation issue in SilkPerformer 2006R2 which has been corrected in SilkPerformer 2007. The text in Help should read "Windows Home or Professional editions can only be used as agents for...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does HTTP PAGES increase even when the page cannot be...
The current description for HTTP PAGES in the HELP is incorrect. It states: HTTP pages The number of HTML pages successfully downloaded by the page-level API or by the browser-level API when Java...
View ArticleForum Post: Create new report Silk Performer or customize report .docx
Hi, I need to create a new business template, where there are new fields and metrics to include no report, I would like to know where I can do this, I'm seeing xsl files, is it possible here? I need to...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does clicking the "Agent Assignment" in the Workload...
The Agent Assignment is a feature in the Workload Configuration dialog that allows the configuration of how agents are assigned and used during a Loadtest. There have been some instances when it takes...
View ArticleForum Post: Performance software testing with multi factor authentication -
Has anyone made any inroads with respect to performance software testing with multi factor authentication - it seems one has to bypass it to use Silk Performer successfully. Anyone had any luck with this?
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Create new report Silk Performer or customize report .docx
Hi Moura. This feature might be useful - community.microfocus.com/.../word-reporting Hope it helps!
View ArticleForum Post: RE: HTTP PATCH Method in silkperformer scripting
Hi, there are more *CustomRequest* functions, please check e.g. WebCustomRequestBin, WebPageCustomRequestBin,... Most easy would be if you simply record your client - the appropriate API call would be...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Create new report Silk Performer or customize report .docx
Hi CiaranB, Thanks, I need to create a separate table with a list of tested features, I could help me where I can do this, I am in the overview.xsl file ?
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does SilkPerformer report my memory utilization to be much...
This is a known issue on machines with 2GB of RAM or greater. SilkPerformer uses 4 byte variables to calculate the percentage but on machines with 2GB RAM or higher the values do not fit in the 4 byte...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does SilkPerformer truncate data when using FileGetCol to...
There is a known issue in SilkPerformer 2008 R2 (and all previous versions) which causes the nMaxLen parameter of FileGetCol to truncate data to 2048 characters. This issue will be fixed in a future...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does SP5.1.1. PerfRun.exe hang at the end of a Java Frameworks...
Silk Performer attempts to destroy the Java Virtual Machine at the end of a JavaFramework script. Before the release of Silk Performer 5.1.1, at the end of a loadtest, the Perfrun.exe was detached from...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does StrSearchDelimited not return a string in SilkPerformer...
Due to a known issue in SilkPerformer 2007, the StrSearchDelimited function will not return the substring stored in sTarget when the STR_SEARCH_IGNORE_WHITESPACES flag is used. The following code...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does System Configuration Manager report a negative value for...
NOTE : This issue has been resolved with SilkPerformer 2009 R2 and later versions; the System Configuration Manager is now able to correctly display the amount of memory of a machine with more than 4...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why does the "All Day" Workload start immediately when using a...
This behavior is as designed. The All-Day workload allows you to change the number of users and duration dynamically during the already started test run. As such, the test appears to start, so the user...
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