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This month’s bug story is a slow pitch, just in time for baseball season. There comes a time in your practice where you find your application works on most machines, but not all. And of course, your customers or users will tell you their machine is “exactly” like his neighbors where...

SilkPerformer plays the canon Frère Jacques with three virtual users, each one controlling its own IE instance using the Browser-driven Load Testing feature. The virtual users synchronize themselves at a couple of rendezvous points in order to keep time. Turn on your speakers and enjoy! ...

SilkPerformer plays the canon Frère Jacques with three virtual users, each one controlling its own IE instance using the Browser-driven Load Testing feature. The virtual users synchronize themselves at a couple of rendezvous points in order to keep time. Turn on your speakers and enjoy...

An update to SilkPerformer 2011 is now available for download from SupportLine . This hotfix includes a number of fixes for issues reported by our users and enhancements to Browser-driven Load Testing. Further details about these fixes as well as installation instructions are available here .

Micro Focus is pleased to announce the general availability of SilkPerformer 9.0 (2012) our award winning, enterprise-class performance testing solution. The new release of SilkPerformer 9.0 extends our leading Web 2.0, Mobile testing and CloudBurst capabilities. New polished and streamlined designs...

Reference User The accuracy of load test results is important. When hardware resources are overloaded, test results can become skewed. SilkPerformer offers agent health indicators and load-test resource management out-of-the-box, but when pushing resources to the limit with GUI-based technologies ...

Hello everyone, In increasingly shared and virtualized infrastructures, simulating high-, medium- and low- concurrency scenarios associated to key business events becomes critical. Access to different resources (database, web services, content, tokens etc) will vary according to business specifics...

Hey Guys, I am ona project and having a trouble with one requirement. We need to do a load test with 240 VUs running one script with two different transaction in it for 2 hours. We need to run first transaction with all VUs only once at the start of the Test, then after 20 min out of 240 VUs only...

Welcome to the Silk Performer Community! Here you’ll find lots of helpful articles, videos, and discussions that will enable you to get the most out of Silk Performer. Please join the conversation. We'd love to hear from you!(Please visit the site to view this video) Silk Performer is the...

This video shows you how to record a mobile web application using a mobile device. (Please visit the site to view this video)

This video shows you how to record a mobile web application using a Web browser on a PC. (Please visit the site to view this video)

Silk Performer supports GUI-level load testing (load testing of fat-client applications). To test these applications, Silk Performer uses Windows Terminal Services to connect to and open client sessions on agent computers. Silk Test launches clients, runs GUI level tests, and communicates results back...

Troubleshooting GUI-Level Testing Issues When troubleshooting GUI-Level issues it is important to note that there are three separate components (Silk Performer, Silk Test, and Windows/Terminal Services/Remote Desktop Services) that play integrated roles during the execution of GUI-Level tests; each...

Using the BrowserNativeClick function. This behaviour has now changed in Silk Performer 9.5 onwards so the content of this video is relevant for versions prior to and including Silk Performer 9.0. (Please visit the site to view this video)

Micro Focus is pleased to announce the general availability of Silk Performer 9.5 our award winning, enterprise-class performance testing solution. The new release of Silk Performer 9.5 extends our market leading position in Web 2.0 testing with the next-generation of Browser-Driven Web Load Testing...

Introduction Silk Performer offers a plug-in framework for AppDynamics and other third-party diagnostics tools. The AppDynamics Plug-In is installed along with the Silk Performer setup. It is disabled by default. AppDynamics focuses on monitoring performance at the Business Transaction level. Business...

With version 9.5 Silk Performer introduces diagnostics integration with AppDynamics. Read this article on how to set it up.

Bloor Research , one of Europe's leading independent IT research, analysis and consultancy organizations reached the following conclusion with regard to a comparison of citrix testing in Silk Performer versus LoadRunner in October 2012 … LoadRunner Silk Performer Citrix...

When developing applications for the Microsoft Windows Phone platform, it’s common practice to utilize Web Services. Many mobile applications, for example stock tickers and weather apps, retrieve data from Web Services so that they can provide accurate and current data to the user. Usually the...

The Performance Testing Primer talks about basic concepts, tips and tricks about performance testing.

Hi, I am using the the monitoring facility available in Silk Performance Explorer. I am using custom data (NT Performance Monitoring Data) for monitoring. It internally uses the Perfmon only. My question is, is there any way we can save the data as we get the CSV file in Perfmon so we can use later...

There is no built-in support for S-FTP (ftp via ssh tunnel), however a viable workaround is to put a BDL wrapper around a free S-FTP client, such as PuTTY's PSFTP. Check out the attached sample.

Hi, My soap xml request contains Chinese letters.Though I use encoding format as UTF-8, those Chinese letters are appearing as ?? and throwing errors.Can anyone please help me on this. Thanks much in advance!