Load Runner interview Questions & Answers-1


Q1. What Is Load runner?
Answer :
Load Runner accurately measure and analysis the system performance and its functionality.
Q2. When Load runner Is Used?
Answer :
Load runner is used to test applications when load sustaining is critical for our project and the tool/application developed is expected to work under heavy loads. In all cases, load testing manually is not possible.
Q3. What Is The Advantage Of Using Load runner?
Answer :
  1. load runner automatically records the performance of the client/server during test.
  2. Load runner checks where performance delays occur network/client delays.
  3. Load runner monitor the network and server resource to help the improve performance.
Q4. What Is Load runner Controller?
Answer :
Controller is manage and maintain the scenario. using controller you control all the vuser in single work station .
Q5. What Are The Load runner Testing Process?
Answer :
There are 5 steps.
1-planning the test.
2-creating the vuser script.
3-creating the scenario.
4- running the scenario.
5-analysis the test result.
Q6. What Is Load runner Agent?
Answer :
Agent is interface between host machine and controller.
Q7. How You Load A Load runner Agent?
Answer :
Controller instruct the remote command luncher to lunch the Agent .
Q8. What Is Load runner Api Function?
Answer :
Data base vuser do not operate client application. Using Load Runner API function the database vuser can access the data from the server.
Q9. What Is The Load runner Start-transaction And Its Syntax?
Answer :
It will start the transaction on the script. Syntax. Lr-start-transaction("transaction name").
Q10. What Is The Load runner End Transaction And Its Syntax?
Answer :
It will end the transaction. Syntax. Lr-end-transaction("transaction name", LR-AUTO).
Q11. What Protocols Does Load runner Support?
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Industry standard protocols for example HTTP and ODBC are explicitly supported by Load Runner. Furthermore any protocol that communicates over a windows socket can be supported.
Q12. What Can I Monitor With Load runner?
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Monitor system bottlenecks during a test run and capture and display the performance data from every server or component.
Q13. How Many Users Can I Emulate With Load runner On A Pc?
Answer :
Unlimited, No dead end., Depends on system response. That too inturn depends on various factors like entire system configuration etc. If system bottle necks observes in very beginning or minimum no of Vusers no further addition of vusers will be considered unless observed bottleneck is resolved.
Q14. What Are The Vuser Components In Load runner?
Answer :
Application Components used are client, database or additionally business application server.
Web Server works on and through LAN,WAN,or www connection.
Application Server components are client, business server and database server without use of www. but through Protocols like FTP.
Q15. Load runner Function - How To Get Current System Time
Answer :
This function is developed to using Mercury Load Runner performance tool. This main use of this functions to return the current system time at any given point of time while Load Runner script is running. This function can be used to report transaction times , script start time and end time.
long get_secs_since_midnight(void)
{
char * curr_hr; /* pointer to a parameter with current clock hr *
char * curr_min; /* pointer to a parameter with current clock min*/
char * curr_sec; /* pointer to a parameter with current clock sec */
long current_time, /* current number of seconds since midnight */
hr_secs, /* current hour converted to secs */
min_secs, /* current minutes converted to secs */
secs_secs; /* current number of s curr_hr = lr_eval_string("{current_hr}>");
curr_min = lr_eval_string("{current_min}");
curr_sec = lr_eval_string("{current_sec}");
hr_secs = (atoi(curr_hr)) * 60 * 60;
min_secs = (atoi(curr_min)) * 60;
secs_secs = atoi(curr_sec);
current_time = hr_secs + min_secs + secs_secs;
return(current_time);
}

Q16. What Are The Reasons Why Parameterization Is Necessary When Load Testing The Web Server And The Database Server?
Answer :
Parameterization is generally done to test with multiple set of data or records.
Q17. What Is Scenario?
Answer :
A scenario defines the events that occur during is testing session. Exam (deposit cash, withdraw money…).
Q18. What Is The Vuser In The Scenario?
Answer :
Load Runner replace the human user with vuser.
Q19. What Is Vuser Script?
Answer :
While run a scenario every vuser execute a script that script known as vuser script .
Q20. What The Vuser Script Contain?
Answer :
The vuser script includes the function that measure and record the performance of the server during the scenario.
Q21. What Is Transaction?
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Transaction measure the time, which takes for the server to respond to task submitted by the vuser.
Q22. What Is Rendezvous Point?
Answer :
To emulate peak load on the server.
Q23. When The Rendezvous Point Is Insert?
Answer :
When multiple vuser to perform tasks at exactly the same time then insert the rendezvous point to emulate the peak load on the server.
Q24. What Is Host?
Answer :
Host is machine which execute the vuser script.
Q25. What Is Planning For The Test.
Answer :
Define the performance testing requirements for example no. of concurrent users, typical business processes and required response time.
Q26. What Do You Mean By Creating Vuser Script?
Answer :
Creating vuser script for emulate the action that virtual user Perform during the scenario execution.
Q27. What Are The Process For Developing A Vuser Script.
Answer :
There are 5 steps for developing a vuser script.
1-recording the vuser script .
2-edit the vuser script.
3-runtime setting .
4-run the vuser script in stand-alone mode.
5-incorporate the vuser script into a Load Runner scenario.
Q28. How To Create A Scenario?
Answer :
We have to install Load Runner controller to the host . Then we include list of host(where vuser script execute) then list of vuser script (where vuser run) and then list of vuser that run during the scenario.
Q29. What Do You Mean By Remote Command Launcher(rcl)?
Answer :
Rcl enables the controller to start the application on the Host machine .
Q30. How Many Types Of Vuser Are Available?
Answer :
There are several type of vuser(GUI ,Database ,RTE(terminal emulator), SAP, DCOME, People soft, java, Baan)
Q31. What Is Gui Vuser And On Which Platform It Will Run?
Answer :
GUI vuser operate graphical user interface application and it can run in either the MS-Windows / X-Windows environment .
Q32. What Is Ms-windows?
Answer :
WinRunner used for MS-Window application .
Q33. What Is X-windows?
Answer :
X-runner and VX-runner for X-Windows application.
Q34. How You Develop The Database Vuser Script?
Answer :
Developing the database vuser script either by recording with Load Runner vuser script generator (VuGen) or by using Load Runner vuser script template.
Q35. How Many Section Database Vuser Script Have?
Answer :
3 section ,written in code that assemble in C, SQL call to the database, written in TSL(test script language).
Q36. How You Enhance The Basic Script?
Answer :
By adding control-flow, structure, by inserting transaction point and rendezvous point, adding functions.
Q37. What Is Run-time-setting?
Answer :
Run-time-setting include loop,log and timing information.
Q38. What Is Stand-alone Mode?
Answer :
To verify that the script runs correctly.
Q39. What Type Of Function Generate And Insert By The Vugen To The Script When You Record A Script?
Answer :
1-LR Function.(vuser function)
2- protocol function.

Q40. What Is Lr-function?
Answer :
obtain the information about vuser running in a scenario .
Q41. What Is Protocol Function?
Answer :
Obtain the information about the type of vuser.
Q42. What Are The Section Contain By The Vugen While Creating A Vuser Script?
Answer :
Vugen contain the 3 section .
1-vuser-init
2-action.
3-vuser-end.
Q43. What Is Vuser-init Section?
Answer :
Record a log in to the server(vuser initialize loaded).
Q44. What Is Action Section?
Answer :
Record the client activity .
Q45. What Is Vuser-end Section?
Answer :
Record a log off in to the server (vuser stoped).
Q46. How Vugen Create A Vuser Script?
Answer :
By recording the activity between client and server.
Q47. How You Edit The Script?
Answer :
While editing the script we have to inserting the transaction point and rendezvous point.
Q48. Where You Insert The Rendezvous Point?
Answer :
Rendezvous point insert in to the script to calculate the peak load of the server.
Syntax: lr-rendezvous ("rendezvous name").
Q49. What Are The Element In The Load Runner Controller?
Answer :
Title bar(name of the scenario presently working). Menu bar(selecting the various command). Tool bar. Status bar.
Q50. What Are The 5 Icons Appear In The Bottom Of The Controller Windows?
Answer :
1-host windows(list of machine).
2-script windows(list of all the vuser script)
3-rendezvous windows.
4-transaction windows(display all the transaction) .
5-output window( display error and notification message).


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