Performance Center 11.0
What’s New
September 2010
Agenda
Market Drivers
HP LoadRunner
HP Performance Center
Market Drivers
Application Modernization
Application Modernization
People
Process
Technology
Application Modernization
People
Process
Technology
• Collaboration
• Tracking (auditing/versioning)
• Multi-Persona support
• Agility
• Reporting
• “Single point of truth”
• Innovation
• Ease of use
• New technologies
Application Modernization
People
• Collaboration
• Tracking
(auditing/versioning)
Management:
• Multi-Persona support
Performance Center
Process
• Agility
• Reporting
• “Single point of truth”
Automation:
Technology
• Innovation
LoadRunner
• Ease of use
• New technologies
HP Performance Center
Solutions for management and automation of performance optimization
HP Performance Center Family
Performance Testing: LoadRunner / Performance Center
VuGen
Controller
Load Generator
Monitors
Analysis
Management Framework: Performance Center
User/privilege Infrastructure
management management
Central
repository
Global access &
collaboration
Requirements
& Defects
Resource
pooling &
scheduling
Diagnostics
J2EE
.NET
SO
A
SAP
Oracle
Performance testing:
HP LoadRunner & HP Performance
Center
What’s New in 11.0?
HP LoadRunner
The market leading solution for performance validation
Enables a consistent,
repeatable process to:
• Emulate production
workload to test a broad
range of applications
• Identify performance
bottlenecks, diagnose the
root cause of issues
• Optimize application
performance before
deployment
Reduce risk of
deploying systems that
do not meet performance
requirements
Reduce cost by
predicting scalability and
capacity and eliminating
over-deployment
Reduce time by
shortening test cycle
time. Accelerate delivery
of high quality
applications
LoadRunner 11.0
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous
The challenge: Scripting process
Current scripting process
Record a
script
Correlations
Parameterize
data
Add
transactions
Add logic
– Sequential process takes time
– Scripting expertise needed (especially for complex apps)
– Protocol level scripts break with minor app changes
The challenge: Scripting for web 2.0 apps
New Web 2.0 technologies
Client
Networks
Data
Web
Server
App
Server
Cloud
Server
Web
Server
Services
EDW
Web
App
Data
Server
Server Web Server
Service
Web
s
Server
– Many technologies, frameworks and toolkits
– Very customizable – almost no “vanilla” usage
– Dynamic, asynchronous behavior
– Client-side processing and logic
– Most testing solutions do not support all the customizations
INTRODUCING: LoadRunner TruClient
The revolutionary way of scripting modern apps
Scripting engine
embedded within
browser
Data can be
parameterized
while scripting
Transactions, and
logic can be added
while scripting
Automatic
suggestion of
automated steps
No correlations
required!
Interactive,
dynamic
scripting!
Supports all Ajax
applications
LoadRunner TruClient
Benefits
– Faster: Reduces test cycle time
Record a script
Parameterize data
Add Transactions
Add Logic
•
Interactive, dynamic scripting: customize as
you record
•
Especially relevant in Agile
– Easier: Less expertise required
•
No correlations, no programming required
•
Ideal for beginners and less technical
scripters
– More robust: more re-use of scripts
– Supports all AJAX based applications
– Patented solution!
LoadRunner 11.0
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous
The challenge: Reporting
Reporting for multiple personas
– Tedious process
Generate reports
from LoadRunner
– Consumes time
– Introduces delays
Manually add or
remove graphs
Create multiple
sets of report
Manually convert
to various formats
For each
stakeholde
r persona
– Not efficient
LoadRunner: Multi-level reporting
Reporting for multiple personas
Create multiple
templates
Send to
various
personas
– Support for multiple report templates
– Out of the box and customizable
templates for various personas
– Generates multiple reports
simultaneously
– Save in various formats such as pdf,
etc.
LoadRunner: Multi-level reporting
Benefits
– Saves time required to create
multiple reports
– Makes creating reports much easier
– Customized reports gives concise,
easily-readable information
– Increases visibility
LoadRunner 11.0
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous
LoadRunner 11.0
Platforms, Environments, Protocols
– New protocols
•
New Microsoft Silverlight virtual user
•
New Java-over-http virtual users
•
New ServiceTest virtual user
– Platforms and Environments
•
Support for IE8, Win 7, Win Server 2008 SP2
•
64 bit support (32-bit app) - for all components except
recording)
LoadRunner 11.0
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous
LoadRunner 11.0
Miscellaneous
Data format extensions
HTTP Snapshot viewer
Support for Citrix Web Access (nFuse)
Improvements to correlation studio
Analysis reporting improvements
Analysis performance improvements
Performance test management
framework:
HP Performance Center
What’s New in 11.0?
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HP Performance Center
The platform for enterprise-level performance testing
Globally accessible, centralized
platform that enables consistent,
repeatable processes for:
• Test planning, scheduling, execution
and reporting across multiple
concurrent projects and multiple
people
• Defining performance
requirements, tracking coverage
and ensuring traceability to defects
• Monitoring, analysis and
diagnostics to identify and
eliminate performance bottlenecks
• Reporting in real time as well as
trending across multiple tests
and iterations
Maximize productivity
and collaboration in
distributed teams
through 24x7 web
interface
Maximize utilization of
resources through
pooling and sharing of
licenses, hardware and
software.
Increase process
efficiency, produce
LABEL
GOES
better
quality
HERE via Center
applications
of Excellence model
Performance Center11.0
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM
The challenge: requirements & defects
Traceability and coverage
– Performance requirements defined ad-hoc
•
SLAs/SLOs (Service Level Agreements/Objectives)
– No reporting on requirements covered in tests
– No tracking from defects to see affected requirements
– Hard to track status & quality to business requirements
Performance Center 11.0
Performance Requirements & Defects, Coverage reports
Performance
Requirements
Requirement
status
Requirement
coverage
Performance requirements & defects
Benefits
– Save performance requirements (such as SLAs,
throughput requirements, etc) with the project
– Log and track issues as performance defects,
and assign defects to specific people to fix
– Complete traceability between performance
requirements and defects to show what defect is
affecting which requirement
– Show the exact status of a requirement at any
given time
Performance Center 11.0
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM
The challenge: Center of Excellence needs
Collaboration
– CoE with multiple people and multiple projects needs
•
Version control
•
Asset sharing across various tests and projects
•
Grouping of various projects together in logical units
Performance Center 11.0
Next-gen platform: based on the ALM platform
Performance
Testing
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Performance
Lab Mgmt
(scheduling)
Collaboration
Traceability
Reporting
Version Control
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Performance
Requirements
& Defects
Admin Console
Users & license
Projects
CoE
ALM Platform
Performance Center
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Performance
Test
Management
Authentication
Authorization
Workflow
APIs, Integrations
Performance Center 11.0
Next-gen platform: based on the ALM platform
– CoE features:
•
Version control
•
Asset sharing
•
Project grouping
–Admin features:
•
High availability
•
System checks
– Enables collaboration
– Increases efficiency
Performance Center 11.0
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM
The challenge
Infrastructure of System Under Test
– Performance testers often do not know the infrastructure
they are testing against
– Need information to setup monitors
– Need information to track configuration changes
– Majority of problems occur due to infrastructure
configuration issues, not necessarily due to application
issues
Performance Center 11.0
Topology
Drag & drop from
list to build your
topology diagram
Right click to set
up monitors
Define machine
names and
properties
Performance Center: Topology
Benefits
– Save infrastructure information (servers, configurations,
etc) with the project
– Make tracking of infrastructure changes easier
– Save time in setting up monitors
– Make monitor setup easier
Performance Center 11.0
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM
Performance Center 11.0
Miscellaneous
– Categorization of Load Generators
•
“Mark” load generators with specific configurations
•
Ability to search for and book load generators with
specific attributes
Performance Center 11.0
Miscellaneous
– Timeslots
•
Redone in Outlook fashion
•
More information available regarding booked timeslots
•
Allows for maintenance windows
Shows when you can start
a test based on your
requirements
Performance Center 11.0
Timeslots
Gives information
on used timeslots
Performance Center 11.0
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM
The challenge: Application Lifecycle
Tracking & managing across the Application Lifecycle
– Need a single dashboard to track the status of a project
across the application lifecycle
•
Functional & non-functional requirements
•
Functional defects & performance bottlenecks
•
Functional testing & performance testing
•
Single dashboard
– Enable integrations between products
Performance Center with ALM
PC merges with ALM and becomes part of it
Common dashboard & Reporting
Performanc
e Testing
Lab Mgmt
(scheduling
)
Requirement
s & Defects
(all types)
Test
Managemen
t (all types)
Developmen
t
Integrations
Project
Planning
&
Tracking
Releas
e Mgmt
ALM Platform
Performance Center merged with HP ALM
PC-only
components
Merged components
ALM-only
components
Models
Performance Center and ALM
Two ways to deploy
– Stand-alone PC (customer may or may not have ALM or QC)
Performanc
e Testing
Lab Mgmt
(scheduling
)
Performance
Requirements
& Defects
Performance
Test
Management
ALM Platform
Performance Center
– PC & ALM Combined (PC only integrates with ALM, not QC))
Common dashboard & Reporting
Performanc
e Testing
Lab Mgmt
(scheduling
)
Requirement
s & Defects
(all types)
Test
Managemen
t (all types)
Developmen
t
Integrations
Project
Planning
&
Tracking
ALM Platform
Performance Center merged with HP ALM
Releas
e Mgmt
Model
s
Performance Center with HP ALM
Benefits
– PC integrates and merges with HP ALM to give
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One place for all requirements
•
One place for all defects
•
Single dashboard to show status of requirements and
defects across the application lifecycle
•
Enterprise visibility into quality of the application
Summary
What’s New in 11.0?
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LoadRunner & Performance Center
Version 11.0
– Major release with lots of new features
– Multiple patents on many of the features
– Makes test automation and execution easier, faster
– Supports testing for various types of applications
– Enables and facilitates center of excellence
– Helps manage quality across the entire application
lifecycle
Outcomes that matter.