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Load Test Projects
Introduction
What you will learn
This chapter explains how to define a Citrix load-test project in SilkPerformer.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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Overview 7
Prerequisites 8
Defining a Load Test Project 8
Overview
The first step in conducting a Citrix load test is to define the basic settings for
your SilkPerformer load-test project. A project is given a name, and optionally, a
brief description. The type of application to be tested is Citrix, though a range of
other choices are available for other projects, encompassing all the major traffic
that is encountered in e-business today on the Internet and on the Web, including
the most important database and distributed applications.
Though the settings that you specify will be associated with a specific loadtesting
project, later you’ll find that it’s easy to switch between projects, to edit
projects, and to save projects so that they can later be modified and reused.
A project contains all the resources that are required to complete a load test.
These include a workload, one or more profiles and test scripts, all the data files
that are accessed from scripts, a specific number of agent computers, and
information for server-side monitoring.
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