TruClient browser settings, for scripts that you run in load mode.

Additional information:

• Settings that you modify in this view only affect TruClient Vusers in load mode.
• These settings correspond to those in the Browser Settings tab in the TruClient General Settings dialog box. However, the settings that you modify in the TruClient General Settings dialog box affect interactive mode only. For more details, see the TruClient Help Center (select the relevant version).
• When you save your script in interactive mode, the settings that you modified in the Browser Settings tab are applied to these Load runtime settings.

The location of additional classes that were not included in the system's classpath environment variable. You may need these classes to run Java applications and ensure proper replay.

Tip: you can specify a complete folder using an asterisk (*) as a wildcard.

Content check for websites during runtime. You can set Content Check runtime settings for Web - HTTP/HTML and other Internet protocols.

Additional information:

You use the Content Check settings to check the contents of a page for a specific string. This is useful for detecting non-standard errors. In normal operations, when your application server fails, the browser displays a generic HTTP error page indicating the nature of the error. The standard error pages are recognized by VuGen and treated as errors, causing the script to fail. Some application servers, however, issue their own error pages that are not detected by VuGen as error pages. The page is sent by the server and it contains a formatted text string, stating that an error occurred.

For example, suppose that your application issues a custom page when an error occurs, containing the text ASP Error. You instruct VuGen to look for this text on all returned pages. When VuGen detects this string, it fails the replay.

Note: VuGen searches the body of the pages—not the headers.

Miscellaneous runtime settings.

Automatic transactions are not relevant for Application Performance Management.

Tips: 

• It is not recommended to enable both the Continue on Error and Generate Snapshot on Error options in a load test environment. This configuration may adversely affect Vuser performance.

• For considerations on whether to run a Vuser as a process or thread, see Run a Vuser as a process or thread.

List of .NET NuGet packages for referenced DLLs.

Various Internet-related runtime settings.

For information about the Internet Preferences runtime settings, see Preferences view - Internet protocol.

Proxy server connection settings.

If you select the option to use the default HTTP proxy settings:

• When running on Windows, the Internet Explorer proxy settings are used.

  To use this option, your default browser cannot be Firefox.  If it is, uninstall Firefox and then select another default browser.
  

• When running on Linux, thse proxy values in the HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY environment variables are used.

  You must manually create these environment variables on the Linux computer where your script runs.

Authentication

The password entered here is encrypted using a shared key included in the VuGen installation. If you change the shared key using the lr_agent_settings command line tool, you must re-enter the password here. For details, see Network and Security Manager - command line tool in the LoadRunner Professional help center.

RDP advanced runtime settings.

Tip: To conserve system resources on the remote desktop server. disable the options that are not essential for your test.

RDP Agent runtime settings.

Tip: For the RDP agent log folder option—if no folder is specified and the agent log destination was set to File, the log is saved in the temp folder of the user on the server.

RTE runtime settings.

You can use the TE_typing_style function to override the Delay settings for a portion of a Vuser script.

Tip: In the Delay before typing option, the delay settings determine how Vusers execute TE_type functions.

• First key. Specifies the time (in milliseconds) that a Vuser waits before entering the first character of a string.
• Subsequent keys. Specifies the time (in milliseconds) that a Vuser waits between submitting successive characters.

Run logic runtime settings.

Note: When defining random run logic, the blocks or actions in a blocks are run with a probability of the percentages defined and not exactly as defined.

In the following example, during the 10 iterations, Block0 and Block1 will run with a probability of 20% and 80% respectively, and not exactly 2 and 8 times.

SAP GUI runtime settings.

Performance settings:

• Show SAP Client during replay. This option shows an animation of the actions in the SAP client during replay. The benefit of this, is that you can closely follow the actions of the Vuser and see how the forms are filled out. This option, however, requires additional resources and may affect the performance of your load test.

• Create snapshots during replay. Captures both ActiveScreen snapshots and regular snapshots while a script runs.

  ActiveScreen snapshots contain control ID information for all active objects. ActiveScreen snapshots differ from regular snapshots in that ActiveScreen snapshots allow you to see which objects were recognized by VuGen in the SAP GUI client. As you move your mouse across an ActiveScreen snapshot, VuGen highlights the detected objects. You can then add new steps to the script directly from within the snapshot. ActiveScreen snapshots also enable you to add steps interactively from within the snapshot for a specific object. For more information, see Enhance SAP GUI scripts.

  Note: Disabling replay snapshots may improve the script replay speed and save storage space.

Modify the list of shared DLLs after you record a Vuser script.

If a DLL is included in the list of shared DLLs, when the Vuser script is run and requires a particular DLL, the Vuser will access the DLL in its shared location – the DLL will not be copied to the load generator. Adding a DLL to the list of shared DLLs therefore saves hard-drive space on the load generator when a Vuser runs.