Appsierra Solution HP Stormrunner is a cloud-based performance testing tool for software. This tool is hosted by Hewlett Packard Enterprise data centre facilities. Its services can be accessed immediately by availing a SaaS Licence of it. The subscription of Stormrunner can be purchased easily with the help of a credit card and can be scaled later on-demand. After this, all you need to use this tool is a browser. It is very less time consuming for performance engineers to create and run load tests on software either it is built using the agile methodology or the traditional way….Learn more To perform a load test, the tester needs to create and design a TruClient script, add it to the load test and then run or execute the test. These tests can be performed on the self-driving test labs of storm runner and do not require any load generator configuration to do so. Image Source: Micro Focus Community Benefits of HP Stormrunner 1. Since storm runner is a cloud-based service and can be accessed with the aid of a browser, it does not require any client-side installation and infrastructure setup for leveraging its services. 2. It is a valuable tool for Agile, Cloud, web and mobile projects, in which the teams want to use both open-source tools and their solutions. Because of this, they can execute the test scripts on open source tools like JMeter as well as they can also use their existing load runner scripts and port them on storm runner cloud and run them from distributed load generators…..Learn more Key features of HP Stormrunner 1. The users are allowed to integrate selected third-party tools to the HP Stormrunner load. It is a great feature from the continuous integration server perspective like Jenkins Hudson. 2. Snapshot is an intuitive functionality of Stormrunner for TruClient. It will allow performance testers to navigate through the application which was pre-recorded to verify the transactions going to perform against the application under test. Test reporting in HP Stormrunner 1. The dashboard of HP Stormrunner is populated with several widgets. These widgets can be the virtual users, hits per second, throughput errors and many more. 2. The clients are allowed to add or remove different widgets from the widget gallery as per their wish. These widgets help in making various client-side measurements like hits per second, throughput errors, transaction response time. Image Source: Calleo Software 3. Different monitors are also available to monitor the CPU utilisation and the memory utilisation by the application. 4. Different graphs can be overlayed for data crunching…..Learn more HP StormRunner vs Loadrunner Stormrunner is one of the parts of the suite of performance testing solutions from HPE. The storm runner is built based on the LoadRunner, with some extended capabilities. On one hand, HP Stormrunner is a cloud-based solution for testing the performance of mobile and web-based applications developed in the Agile environment, while on the other hand, Loadrunner is used for size-specific project-based testing….Continue reading
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