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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.
In this topic:
- First steps
- End-to-end workflow
- Additional features
- Integrate with OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform
- Integrate with OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis
First steps
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Before you begin Watch the Get started video to learn about the basics. |
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Plan a load test Learn how to plan and create a load test. See Create a load test. |
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Video tutorials Familiarize yourself with key areas of the user interface by viewing the library of tutorials in Feature demos and the Video gallery. |
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Begin When you're ready to begin, go to the Home page and start creating a load test. For details, see Home page. |
End-to-end workflow
The following steps describe a typical workflow for creating and running a test:
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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.
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Configure monitors.
Application and server monitors can be configured and added to your test definition. For more information on working with monitors, see Monitors.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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| OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis | |
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Tenant management Note: As of version 2023.11, the Tenant management option is available by default to all new tenants. |
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| Customize the capacity for cloud load generators | |
| Define SLA based on Vuser success | |
| Collect Vuser logs from on-premises load generators | |
| Export raw transaction data to a CSV file | |
| Store errors | |
| Online script editing | |
| Stream data to a time series database (both aggregated and raw data) | |
| Health monitoring for cloud load generators enabled | |
| Restart failed Vusers | |
| Disruption events |
Integrate with OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform
OpenText Core Performance Engineering is part of the OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform module.
This enables you to stream your performance results to OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform so that you can see a comprehensive picture of your application's quality and coverage in one place.
For details, see OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform integration.
Integrate with OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis
OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis is part of the Performance Engineering module.
This enables you to stream performance data and results in real time, to a cloud-based solution designed for high scale and smart performance analysis.
For details, see OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis integration.
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