Getting Started
PureTest 3.5 November 2007	http://www.minq.se support@minq.se

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Installation
  • Installation directory
  • Installation Properties
  • Uninstall PureTest

Introduction

This document serves as the introduction to PureLoad. It covers installation procedures, important concepts and how to get started.

Please read this guide before reading any other PureLoad related document.

Requirements

PureTest is verified on the following operating systems:

• Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Linux x86
  
• Solaris 9/10 (Java System patches may be required)
• Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
  

PureTest is written in Java and should run on any operating system that includes Java 1.5.

At least 20 MByte free disk space is required for PureTest and additional space for Java VM (if not already installed).

Installation

PureTest is distributed in a self-extracting format. Simply execute the installer and answer the questions about install location, etc. in the graphical user interface provided.

For details on how to execute the installer on different operating systems, see the instructions on the web page where you downloaded PureTest.

Installation directory

When installed, the PureTest installation directory, <install-home>, contains the following sub-directories:

• api/
  API documentation, to be used when designing custom tasks
• bin/
  Binaries to start PureTest and configuration files
• classes/
  Runtime resources (license file is installed here)
• doc/
  Documentation (in HTML format)
  
• examples/
  Source code for the examples described in the Task Programmers Guide
• extensions/
  Class directory to be used for custom tasks
• lib/
  Class libraries and other internals
• jre/
  Optionally bundled Java Runtime Environment

Installation Properties

There are a number of System Properties that can be modified for PureTest, defined in the install-home/bin/puretest.properties file (where install-home is where PureTest is installed). Typically here is no need to change these.

In addition there are application Java VM properties to control the max heap size of the PureTest program named puretest.vmoptions and located in the <install-home>/bin/ directory.

For example to change the max heap size edit the file puretest.vmoptions and change the content to:

This will increase the max heap size to 512Mbyte.

Uninstall PureTest

The steps to uninstall PureTest depends on the platform being used, but you will find an application in the <install-home> directory named PureTest Uninstaller. Start the application and you will be guided through the uninstall process.