Overview

In this section, user set up the scenarios and can perform actions, such as adding a group, setup scenario schedule options, setup global schedule and setup various phases. The resultant scenario schedule is displayed in the form of a graph in Schedule graph pane.

User can use a scenario profile by clicking the Profile link at the top-right corner of the Schedule settings window and providing the details, such as project, subproject and scenario profile name.

Schedule Settings Section

The Scenario Setting section allows the following actions to be performed on a Virtual Scenario Group or a VUser Group.

• Creating a VUser Group
• Modifying an Existing Group
• Removing / Deleting an Existing Group
• Running an Existing Group

Creating a VUser Group

• Click the Add Group icon to create a group. The Add Group dialog box is displayed.

Provide the details in the following fields for adding a group:

Group Name: The group should have a proper name specifying the exact task the group performs. Name can be alphanumeric but first character should be an alphabet.

User Profile: The User Profile is User Location based. An existing User Profile from drop- down can be selected. The default is “Internet”.

Type: The available options are:

• Cavisson Script: An existing script can be selected from drop-down list. The script name should be self-explanatory. For example: QAT_Smtp_Include_Body
• URL: A URL name is the name under test for performance. The URL name has to be specified as per exact format. For example, http://www.Aol.com/ or https://www.google.com/
• RDT: NetCloud/RDT provides a versatile mobile application testing platform using real iOS and Android devices on cloud. NetCloud/RDT has the largest device farm of real mobile devices, gathered from different regions globally, including the most versatile OS, OEM and hardware configurations for Android and iOS developers. This helps in test automation, remote manual access and REST API to access, run and manage any tests with these devices.

• To know more about RDT, ask your Cavisson representative.

Ensure that URL is ended by forward slash “/”.

Script/URL: On selecting the Type as Script, user needs to provide the Session. On selecting the Type as URL, user needs to provide the URL.

Number of user(s): It is the measure of number of Virtual users assigned to the group. For example: 80.

Generator(s): Select the available generators. These are the NS machines that run the VUser scripts in the scenarios.

User can add more groups in the similar manner.

Modifying an Existing Group

• Double-click the group name or select the group name and click the Edit Group icon .
• The ‘Edit Group’ dialog box is displayed in which a user can edit all the details of the group.

Deleting an Existing Group

• Delete a group by selecting a group and clicking the Delete Group icon .

Adding a Generator to Scenario Group

A user can add generators by selecting any group name, and then clicking the Generators icon .

Select the generators that are required to be added in the scenario group, and then click OK.

If the user wants to utilize all the selected generators for all the scenario groups, select the check box at the bottom of the window.

Editing a Generator in Scenario Group

To edit the generators in a scenario group, do the following:

1. Open the ‘Edit Group’ dialog box from the ‘Schedule Settings’ window.

2. Click icon. All the generators available for that particular scenario group are displayed.

3. Select or clear the check boxes corresponding to the generators that are required.

4. To distribute load equally to all the generators, select the check box at the top of this window. This load is then reflected in the ‘Percentage’ column. Clear the check box to manually distribute load to the generators in the ‘Percentage’ column.

5. Click OK to save the changes.

Running a Scenario

• Click the Start icon to run the scenario.
• The Start Scenario Dialog box is displayed.

• Enter the Test Name and click the Start Scenario button.

Scenario Schedule Options Section

The Scenario Schedule section allows the user to set schedule options to be performed on groups.  

Scenario Schedule Type

 Schedule Type has two options:

• Simple: Simple schedule is a schedule where there are only four phases and optionally start phase. In ramp up and ramp down, all users or session rates are ramped up or ramped down. There is no control or need to specify number of users or session rate as user is going to do all users or all session rate.
• Advanced: Advanced schedule is more complex and user defined schedule where there can be any number of phases in the schedule. In each ramp up phase, specify number of users or session rate to be ramped up. In each ramp down phase, specify number of users or All or session rate or All to be ramped down.

Schedule By

Schedule By also has two options:

• Scenario: Scenario based schedule is a schedule where all phases are to be given and executed for the whole scenario.
• Group: Group based schedule is a schedule where phases are to be given and executed for each group separately.

Based on the Schedule Type and Schedule By settings, user has the following 4 types of scenarios:

• Simple Scenario
• Simple Group
• Advance Scenario
• Advance Group

Distribute Users across Groups

Users can be distributed across groups by following modes:

• By Percentage: Users in Group(s) are classified by Percentage. For example, Group A has 80% users and Group B has 15% and Group C has 5%.
• By Numbers: Users in Group(s) are classified by Numbers. For example, Group A has 80 users and Group B has 20 users.
• Auto Mode: This mode is operational only for advanced scheduling in which users are automatically distributed according to schedule.

Global Schedule Section

The Global Schedule section allows setting phases on groups. User can Add, Delete and Edit the phases.

The Global Schedule section displays all five phases by default: Start Phase, Ramp-Up Phase, Stabilization Phase, Duration Phase, and Ramp–Down Phase.

Start Phase

The Start phase signifies the time duration of starting of operation. The following actions can be configured in Start phase:

• Assign a proper name to the Start phase. For example:
• Select the Scenario Group to start Immediately after Scenario begins.
• Define time in the specified format (HH:MM:SS) after which scenario starts.
• Schedule the start immediately after a Scenario Group finishes execution. The schedule can be started after insertion of time delay (in HH:MM:SS) after a Scenario Group finishes execution.
• Timings statistics is collected for the whole test run before start of test. This duration (optional) is notional and is incorporated to do pre start-up checks, before the actual operations start.

Ramp-Up Phase

The Ramp-up phase signifies the action of mounting any sort of operation. This phase is needed, so that in test execution of a scenario, users are ramped by spacing them appropriately. This ramping up reduces overload on Servers. Assign a proper name to the Ramp-up phase. For example, QAT_Smtp_Include_Body_RampUp.

Ramp-up can be done by any of the four ways:

Immediate Ramp-up

Selecting the Simultaneously option results in all virtual users of the group to access site Immediately. This is called Immediate Ramp-up. For example, 80 Virtual users access site instantly for a group.

Stepwise Ramp-up

Select a specific number of Virtual users to repeatedly access a site after inserting a time delay (in HH:MM:SS). The users are ramped up in steps. For example, 25 Virtual users are ramped-up followed by next 25 after a delay of 5 seconds, till all 100 are ramped-up.

Time Mode Ramp-up

All Virtual users access site after inserting time delay (in HH:MM:SS). This is called Time Mode Ramp-up. For example, 100 Virtual users ramp-up after inserting time delay of (HH:MM:SS). This Time Mode Ramp-up can be further achieved by 2 modes.

• Linear Time Mode Ramp-up

Users ramp linearly means that the users are created at a constant inter arrival time. All Virtual users access site after inserting a time delay (in HH:MM:SS). System decides to pick a fixed number of users to Ramp-up. For example, System decides to Ramp-up 25 users after every 5 seconds till all 100 users are ramped-up.

• Random Time Mode Ramp-up

All Virtual users access site after inserting a time delay (in HH:MM:SS). System decides to pick a fixed number of users randomly to Ramp-up. For example, System decides to Ramp-up 20 users after every 5 seconds then ramps up 30 after delay of further 5 seconds and later ramps up 10 users and so on till all 100 users are ramped-up.

Rate Mode Ramp-up

Specify a fixed number of Virtual users to ramp-up per Second/per Minute/per Hour.  This Rate Mode Ramp-up can be further achieved by 2 modes:

These options are activated on clearing the Default Rate check box.

• Linear Rate Mode Ramp-up

Users are created at a constant inter arrival time. Specify a fixed number of Virtual users to ramp-up per Second/per Minute/per Hour. System decides to pick a fixed number of users to Ramp-up. For example, 20 Virtual users ramp-up followed by delay per 1 second, next 20 users ramp-up and after further 1 second delay, 20 more users ramp-up and so on.

• Random Rate Mode Ramp-up

Specify a fixed number of Virtual users to ramp-up randomly per Second/per Minute/per Hour.  System decides to pick random number of users randomly to Ramp-up. For example, 20 Virtual users ramp-up followed by delay per 1 second, next 30 users ramp-up and after further 1 second delay, 10 more users ramp-up and so on.

The default rate is 120 users per minute for our system.

Stabilization Phase

The Stabilization phase signifies the time delay (in HH:MM:SS) after which the application is assumed to be stable and in equilibrium once all the Virtual Users are ramped up. This phase is needed to allow server to stabilize for the peak load and also gather timing statistics.

Assign a proper name to the Stabilization phase. For example, QAT_Smtp_Include_Body_Stabilize.

This phase is cut out from following Duration Phase. This phase is incorporated to gather data for reporting purpose on assumption that application has stabilized. For example, the Stabilization phase can be set to a value of 30 seconds.

Duration Phase

The Duration phase signifies the time for which the process runs without any change in any settings.

Assign a proper name to the Duration phase. For example, QAT_Smtp_Include_Body_Duration

This Duration phase can be further achieved by 3 modes:

Time Mode Duration Phase             

This Time Mode duration phase means that the Scenario runs for a specific defined time. Select the Run for option and specify number of days and time delay in (HH:MM:SS). For example, 100 Virtual users accessing a site remain there for 1 day, 01:12:24, i.e., 01 hour, 12 minutes & 24 seconds.

Session Mode Duration Phase

This Session Mode duration phase means that the Scenario runs for a specific number of sessions. For example, 100 Virtual users accessing a site run for 10 sessions. Sessions can be divided among users mentioned for that group. By using the “Run per user session” option.

Each group total sessions = no. of users * no. of sessions

Indefinite Mode Duration Phase

In this phase, the Scenario doesn’t stop if Run Indefinite mode is selected. For example, 100 Virtual users accessing a site remain there for indefinite time.

This is the default option.

Ramp-Down Phase

The Ramp-down phase means a gradual decrease in number of Virtual Users from system. This is reverse of Ramp-up Phase.

Assign a proper name to the Ramp-Down. For example, QAT_Smtp_Include_Body_RampDown.

Ramp-Down can be done by any of the three ways:

Immediate Mode Ramp-Down Phase            

Selecting the Simultaneously option results in all virtual users to be removed from the site Immediately. For example, 100 Virtual users accessing a site are removed from the system immediately.

Step Mode Ramp-Down Phase

Select a specific number of Virtual users to repeatedly removing from the system after a time delay (in HH:MM:SS). For example, 25 Virtual users are ramped-down followed by next 25 after a delay of 5 seconds, till all 100 users are removed from the site.

Time Mode Ramp-Down Phase

All Virtual users are removed from system after a time delay (in HH:MM:SS). This Time Mode Ramp-Down can be done by any of the two ways:

• Time Mode Ramp-down – Linearly

All Virtual users are removed from system after inserting time delay of (HH:MM:SS) in a Linear mode. System decides to pick a fixed number of users to Ramp-down. For example, System decides to Ramp-down 20 users after every 5 seconds and so on till all 100 users are ramped-down.

• Time Mode Ramp-down – Randomly

All Virtual users are removed from system after inserting time delay of (HH:MM:SS) in a Random mode. System decides to pick a fixed number of users to Ramp-down. For example, System decides to Ramp-down 20 users after every 5 seconds, followed by 10 users in next 5 seconds followed by 30 users ramped down in next 5 seconds and so on till all 100 users are ramped-down.

Note:

Group Based Sessions in Single Scenario

Earlier, a group based scenario ran in one mode either ‘Session’ mode or ‘Duration’ mode. Now, the user can use session mode and duration mode both for different groups in a single scenario.