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Welcome to OpenText™ Core Performance Engineering, a cloud-based load testing service that supports web and mobile protocols. OpenText Core Performance Engineering provides you with the tools to create and scale load tests, and generate metrics to analyze your application's performance.

First steps

	Before you begin Watch the Get started video video to learn about OpenText Core Performance Engineering basics.
	Plan a load test Learn how to plan and create a load test. See Create a load test.
	Video tutorials Familiarize yourself with key areas of user interface by viewing the library of tutorials in Feature demos and the Video gallery.
	Let's go! When you're ready to begin, go to the Home page and start creating a load test. For details, see Home tab.

End-to-end workflow

The following steps describe a typical workflow for creating and running a test:

Create a script and upload it to the cloud repository.

Scripts form the backbone of your performance test. Your test definition can contain one or more scripts. For more information on working with scripts, see Scripts.
Configure monitors.

Application and server monitors can be configured and added to your test definition. For more information on working with monitors, see Monitors.
Define a load test.

You add and configure scripts, monitors, Vusers, and SLAs to a load test definition. Vusers are virtual users that emulate user actions on a variety of levels, such as UI emulation or API commands. For details, see Create a load test.
Run the test.

Run the test according to your configuration and observe the real time results in the dashboard. For details, see Run a load test.
Analyze the results.

After the load test has completed, view the Dashboard and see Reports to learn about your application's performance.

For information about downloadable logs and exportable reports, see Results.

Additional features

Several additional options are hidden by default. These options provide additional capabilities and give you more control over your tests. To enable these options, the tenant administrator can submit a service request.

The following table lists the features that can be enabled through a service request:

Feature	More information
Tenant management Note: As of version 2023.11, the Tenant management option is available by default to all new tenants.	Tenant management
Customize the capacity for cloud load generators	Create a load test
Define SLA based on Vuser success	Define SLA based on Vuser success
Collect Vuser logs from on-premises load generators	Collect Vuser logs from on-premises load generators
Export raw transaction data to a CSV file	Export raw transaction data
Store errors	Export raw error data
Online script editing	Edit and view scripts
Stream data to a time series database (both aggregated and raw data)	Time series database streaming
Health monitoring for cloud load generators enabled	Load generator health monitoring
Restart failed Vusers	Restart failed Vusers
Disruption events	Create a load test

Integrating with the ValueEdge platform

OpenText Core Performance Engineering is part of the ValueEdge Performance module.

This enables you to stream your LoadRunner Cloud performance results to ValueEdge so that you can see a comprehensive picture of your application's quality and coverage in one place.

For details, see ValueEdge integration.