LoadRunner Operator
This page introduces the LoadRunner operator, a workflow operator that allows piloting performance tests on a target system by leveraging Micro Focus LoadRunner. This page assumes you are familiar with the definition of a workflow and its tasks. If it is not the case, then check Creating automation workflows.
Prerequisites
This section provides the minimum requirements that you should meet in order to use this operator.
Supported versions
Micro Focus LoadRunner 12.60 or 2020
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or 2019
Powershell version 5.1 or greater
User and WinRM configuration
To configure WinRM to allow Akamas to launch tests please read the Integrating LoadRunner Professional page.
All LoadRunner test files (VuGen scripts and folder, lrs files) and their parent folders, must be readable and writable by the user account used by Akamas.
Configuration options
When you define a task that uses the LoadRunner operator you should specify some configuration information to allow the operator to connect to the LoadRunner controller and execute a provided test scenario.
You can specify configuration information within the arguments
that are part of a task in the YAML of the definition of a workflow.
You can avoid specifying each configuration information at the task level, by including a component
property with the name of a component; in this way, the operator will take any configuration information from the properties of the referenced component
Required properties
controller
- a set of pieces of information useful for connecting to the LoadRunner controllerscenarioFile
- the path to the scenario file within the LoadRunner controller to execute the performance testresultFolder
- the path to the performance tests results folder with the LoadRunner controller
Connect to a LoadRunner controller
To make it possible for the operator to connect to a LoadRunner controller to execute a performance test you can use the controller
property within the workflow task definition:
Operator arguments
This table reports the configuration reference for the arguments
section.
Important notice: remember to escape your path with 4 backslashes (e.g. C:\\\\Users\\\\\…
)
Controller
arguments
Controller
argumentsThis table reports the configuration reference for the controller
section which is an object with the following fields:
Important notice: remember to escape your path with 4 backslashes (e.g. C:\\\\Users\\\\\…
)
Examples
A simple performance test
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