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# Get started

Welcome to OpenText™ Performance Engineering for Developers, a tool for web protocol performance and load testing. You can use it to create and execute DevWeb protocol scripts, with the focus on communication at the HTTP transport level and over WebSocket.

OpenText Performance Engineering for Developers is lightweight, scalable, cross-platform, and free to download and use.

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## First steps

| Before you begin Learn about the product capabilities, to gain a high-level picture of working with the tool and the DevWeb engine. For details, see the Basics.
| Basics The tutorial videos help you to get started, and familiarize you with the basic building blocks. The videos provide step-by-step instructions for installation, script generation, working with the SDK, and more. For details, see the Tutorial videos.
| Experiment Use the example DevWeb scripts available in the <DevWeb root folder>\examples folder to experiment and develop. For example, you can use the scripts as a basis for creating your own scripts, or take code snippets to reuse. For details, see Example files.
| Let's go! When you're ready to begin, start creating your script. For details, see Create scripts.

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## See also

- Basics

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