Wiki Page: Opening LoadTest results is very slow. What might cause this...
This issue can be caused by the excessive use of custom timers in the script. For example, dynamic timer names may have been used causing an excessive amount of timers to be collected, or the Active...
View ArticleWiki Page: This program cannot display the webpage when generating Overview...
When attempting to generate the Overview report, in SilkPerformer 16.0, a message “This program cannot display the webpage” can be displayed. The “More Information” option says: This problem can be...
View ArticleWiki Page: Using the WebPageStatistics functionality with Low Level Web...
Using the WebPageStatistics function it’s possible to obtain additional measurements such as Bytes Sent, Bytes Received, etc. for the last page-level function call. To use this functionality for Low...
View ArticleWiki Page: Reducing the amount to data transferred at one time from the...
If a large test is running across multiple agents it can result in a large amount of data being transferred from the Agent machines to the Controller machines all at once at the end of the test while...
View ArticleForum Post: How to record vb script 5.0 application thru Silk performer
Hello, Can someone please explain the procedure to record a VB script(5.0 version) thru silk performer. The application is a thick client application and cannot be hosted via Citrix. Need a work...
View ArticleWiki Page: Using CompareIT to identify dynamic data
When replaying SilkPerformer Protocol Level scripts, for complex Web applications, there is often a lot of dynamic data (for session information) which requires customization for successful replay....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to record vb script 5.0 application thru Silk performer
Hi Priyanka, Are you able to confirm the underlying network protocol that is used by the application? Also, could you confirm how access to this application will be carried out (you mentioned that the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Network Emulation
One of the highlights of Silk Performer 16.0 is the new network emulation feature. You can now simulate a variety of wired, wireless, and mobile networks by using one of the preconfigured settings or...
View ArticleWiki Page: How do I implement session handling in BDL based on a Javascript...
It is fairly common for web applications to use Javascript timestamps for session handling, for timeouts etc. This is done on the web page using the Javascript GetTime() function which returns the...
View ArticleWiki Page: SilkPerformer support for JavaScript
Created On: 21 January 2013 Problem: During protocol level recording SilkPerformer captures and records the traffic between client and server (requests/ responses), and not client-side JavaScript...
View ArticleWiki Page: Viewing the times for specific Transactions in a monitor graph...
It’s possible to view the times for a particular Transaction from your script using this approach: Go to SETTINGS | ACTIVE PROFILE | RESULTS icon | GENERAL tab. Check the option ‘Client-side measures...
View ArticleForum Post: WebPageLink parameter
SilkPerformer 15.5 I was looking up the definition of WebPageLink trying to understand what the "2" parameter meant (see code below). WebPageLink("HTTP meta refresh tag in page Please wait",...
View ArticleForum Post: Missing data from one script from a test report
We just ran a test with 9 different scripts and run data from on of the scripts was omitted from the summary report. Is there a way to create a report with information from all of the script that...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to record vb script 5.0 application thru Silk performer
Hi Paul, I mean that due to security issues we cannot host this application via Citrix. Hence we have got it installed on the machine. The machine where is it installed, I take an RDP and get...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to record vb script 5.0 application thru Silk performer
Hi We cannot tell you the protocol your application uses. VB script version 5 is only the language the application is written in, it doesn't help determine the protocol in use by that application....
View ArticleForum Post: tryscript runs
On tryscript runs where the script contains: FileGetNextUniqueRow(hFilename1, true); this strips out the top row that was used of a data file after a test run. However, if a test run fails, the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: tryscript runs
Great question. We wrestle with the same problem every day. What we have done that was semi successful is to write the data out to a file if there is a fail or whatever. Then you can add the data...
View ArticleComment on Analysing Scripting Failures in Silk Performer - Part 2
how to do the cotectless scripting in slikperformer and how the script looks like ??
View ArticleForum Post: equivalent of LR function in SilkPerformer
What is the equivalent of below LoadRunner function in SilkPerformer : web_set_sockets_option("INITIAL_BASIC_AUTH","1");
View ArticleForum Post: RE: equivalent of LR function in SilkPerformer
I don't know to what extent this is equivalent to other products, but basic authentication can be achieved by using the WebSetUserAuthBasic() function and its options, such as user and password. Other...
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