Loadrunner is a flagship load testing product from HP that commands over 70% of the market share. It can simulate thousands of users accessing a website or application simultaneously to test performance under heavy load. Loadrunner uses a 3-tier architecture with load generators that simulate users, a controller to manage the test, and monitoring tools to analyze performance. It supports testing many common protocols and can test websites, applications, databases, and other systems.

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2. What is Loadrunner ? It is Flagship Load testing product from Mercury now acquired by HP It commands more than 70% Market Share in load testing tools You can even use it as a “cloud “ based service Main Competitors are OpenSTA, WebLoad , NEOLoad etc.

3. Types of Protocols Supported Loadrunner supports the most exhaustive types of protocols as compared to any other product in the market With new releases , the supported protocols type are increased. Mailing Services: Internet Messaging (IMAP), MS Exchange (MAPI), POP3, and SMTP. Middleware: Jacada and the Tuxedo (6, 7) protocols. Streaming Data: Media Player (MMS) and Real protocols. Wireless: For i-Mode, VoiceXML, and WAP protocols. Legacy: Terminal Emulation (RTE). Distributed Components: COM/DCOM, Corba-Java, and Rmi-Java protocols. E-business: FTP, LDAP, Palm, SOAP, Web (HTTP/HTML),Web/Winsocket Dual Protocol. Enterprise Java Beans: EJB Testing and Rmi-Java protocols. ERP: Baan, Oracle NCA, Peoplesoft- Tuxedo, SAP, Siebel-DB2 CLI, Siebel MSSQL, and Siebel Oracle protocols.

4. What use LoadRunner ? Suppose are assigned to load test eBAY website for 10000 users accessing the site at the same time – a very normal load for a site like eBAY Now, you can not possibly arrange 10000 human users at different PC’s all accessing eBAY at the same time. What you need a is some software which could simulate these 10000 users for you. Enter LOADRUNNER!

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