Tools
PureLoad 3.5 November 2007	http://www.minq.se support@minq.se

• Tools
• Result Comparer
  • Load a Result Set

Tools

The tools menu in PureLoad Console contains choices to quick launch the following applications:

HTTP Recorder

The HTTP Recorder is used to capture HTTP requests between a web browser and a web application in order to easily create PureLoad scenarios. See Testing Web Applications for more information.

Web Crawler

The Web Crawler is used to examine a static web structure and present errors and various statistics. PureLoad scenarios can be created from the resources that are found. See Testing Web Applications for more information.

Result Comparer

The Comparer is used to graphically compare the results from one or several executions. Read more about the comparer below.

Result Comparer

The Result Comparer available in Tools->Result Comparer menu is used to compare result metrics from several load tests. This is a useful when performance enhancements has been applied in the server application between load tests. The comparer visualizes the Time Slot views that is presented in the Result main tab in the console.

The comparer can also be started outside the PureLoad Console depending on the operating system you are using:

• Windows
  Locate the PureLoad submenu in the Start menu and select the PureLoad Comparer entry in the submenu.
• Linux/Unix
  Open a shell and change directory to the PureLoad installation directory. Execute the bin/comparer program.

Load a Result Set

Select File->Open and pick a result comparer file that was previously saved using File->Export Comparer Data in the PureLoad Console.

The following screen shows two loaded result sets, javamagz.cd1 and javamagz.cd2: