Wiki Page: Browser Driven Load Test (BDLT) Users 'executing' after test...
This was a known issue fixed in SilkPerformer 9.0 and occurred when Acrobat Reader or Adobe Flash Player are present on agent machines. Some users would show as 'Executing' when the test should have...
View ArticleWiki Page: CitrixEngine: 43 - Startup failed, Citrix process 'wfcrun32.exe'...
This issue was resolved in SilkPerformer 15; in previous versions it was necessary to kill the Citrix process using Task Manager before starting the test. Old KB# 35629
View ArticleWiki Page: SYSTEM 18 - There are no more files
This error is reported in Silk Performer because the user account which has been specified within the Silk Performer | Settings | Agent | Advanced option, meets one of the following criteria: 1. The...
View ArticleWiki Page: BDLT Script Error - Permission denied
This error can occur when replaying a Browser Driven script in SilkPerformer where there are JavaScript warnings which must be suppressed. These warnings would occur in the Application when accessing...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I monitor Real Time measures such as Active Users from a...
To add an ‘Active Users’ (or similar Real Time measure) monitor for an agent other than localhost do the following: • In the Monitor window, Right click and select ‘Add Data Source’ • Click Next in...
View ArticleWiki Page: Zero functions are recorded when recording a web application in a...
There a number of possible causes of failure to record a web application in a browser. The most common issues and their resolution are as follows: Existing browser instance SilkPerformer may not...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I resolve "BrowserEngine: 32 - Internet Explorer request...
This issue refers specifically to an issue which occurs without ‘Visible client’ selected and when using NTLM / Kerberos authentication. When switching between ‘Visible client’ being selected or not,...
View ArticleWiki Page: Changing the Locator Spy hotkey in SilkPerformer 9.0
The Pause/Break hotkey is used for loading the DOM hierarchy in SilkPerformer's Browser, if it is in use by another program you can change it. Open registry editor by click on START | RUN | type...
View ArticleWiki Page: BrowserNavigate(BrowserEngine: 32 - Internet Explorer request...
The Browser Driven Loadtesting feature utilizes components and settings of Internet Explorer on the machine from which it runs. Required proxy settings must be set within Internet Explorer's settings...
View ArticleWiki Page: An action triggered by pressing a modifier key is not triggered on...
By default the recorder records the high level function BrowserSetText to set the text value of a text control. BrowserSetText uses high level calls to the Browsers DOM API rather than sending actual...
View ArticleWiki Page: Recording rule to force the replacement of a form field value with...
There are circumstances where it may be useful to automatically replace form field values with a variable using a recording rule but no parse is involved. The following rule finds all form fields with...
View ArticleWiki Page: Proxy record an application that does not have proxy support
There may be occasions where it is necessary to proxy record an application but that application does not contain the ability to specify a proxy. It may be possible to record the traffic using the...
View ArticleWiki Page: No BDLT authentication function recorded for NTLM authenticated...
The authentication function (BrowserSetAuthentication) will only be recorded in BDLT scripts when a user is actually prompted for the credentials during login. It is possible however to force Internet...
View ArticleWiki Page: Error: LoadtestController: 3201 - License Error: Not all features...
When attempting to replay a script and the following error is reported: "Error: LoadtestController: 3201 - License Error: Not all features are available - execution is denied due to registration...
View ArticleWiki Page: Can I calculate the ApDex within SilkPerformer?
An automated means of determining the ApDex (Application Performance Index) calculation is not available within SilkPerformer, however it is possible to manually customize a solution within your...
View ArticleWiki Page: BrowserEngine: 13 - GetText failed
When using BrowserGetText() with a large amount of text, in certain circumstances, when the large data is not handled correctly, you will get a BrowserEngine: 13 error instead of the usual “RT: 70 -...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why might my warmup time appear to last longer than expected?
The current user status for each Virtual User can be seen in the Status column in the Monitor pane: If you see a situation where a user appears to remain in 'warmup' for longer than expected this can...
View ArticleWiki Page: RaiseError message parameter limitations
The Virtual User tab, or the Error tab, of the Output window may hang after running a test which makes use of the RaiseError function in SilkPerformer 2011. This issue is caused by specifying a...
View ArticleWiki Page: 'None of the selected loadtests provides a main result file' in...
Problem: Why do I get 'None of the selected Loadtests provides a main result file' message when trying to Add a LoadTest to Performance Explorer? Resolution: The message is rendered, as the LoadTest...
View ArticleWiki Page: Download the common and core JAR files required for AMF3 recording...
Flex/AMF3 recording requires at least two files: flex-messaging-common.jar flex-messaging-core.jar Since SilkPerformer 2010 these files are located in: C:\Program Files (x86)\silk\SilkPerformer...
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