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# Get started

OpenText™ Professional Performance Engineering provides a load testing solution that enables you to test the performance of diverse application types, and to identify and resolve issues before applications go live.

In this topic:

## First steps

| Before you begin Watch videos in the Video gallery to get a high-level view of processes and components.
| What is load testing? Learn about the load testing solution. For details, see Load testing.
| Begin When you're ready to begin, start creating your scenarios. For details, see Design load test scenarios.

## Product components

The major product components are:

| VuGen Virtual User Generator enables you to record end-user business processes and develop scripts that emulate the behavior of real users on your system. The automated scripts are used for performance and load testing with OpenText Professional Performance Engineering and a number of other OpenText products. For details, see the VuGen Help Center.
| Controller Controller organizes, drives, manages, and monitors load and performance tests. For details, see Introducing Controller.
| Analysis Analysis enables you to view, dissect, and compare the results of the tests. For details, see Introducing Analysis.

## Help Center

Some product components have context sensitive help. Access by pressing F1 within a dialog box, or use the Help icon.

When you open a link to a Help Center, make sure that the relevant product version is selected.

You can also download and install local versions of the help. For details, see Download Help Center.

To switch between online and local modes, select Help > Help Center Options > Open Online or Open Locally.

Note:

- To view the Help Center in a browser or within VuGen, make sure JavaScript (Active scripting) is enabled in your browser settings.
- If the online Help Center is unavailable at the start of an application session, the Open Online option might remain disabled during the whole session with that application.

### Bookmark the Help Center

To ensure that you're always viewing the most up-to-date version of the Help Center, bookmark this link: https://admhelp.microfocus.com/lr.

To create a link that will always point to the most recent version of a topic, replace the version number in the URL with 'latest'. For example:

- Previous Help Center version:

  https://admhelp.microfocus.com/lr/en/25.1-25.3/help/WebHelp/Content/WelcomeContent/c_WhatsNew.htm

- Latest version:

  https://admhelp.microfocus.com/lr/en/latest/help/WebHelp/Content/WelcomeContent/c_WhatsNew.htm

## See also

- What's new
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