1. Performance Center 11.0 What’s New September 2010 HP Confidential
6 April 2017

2. Agenda
Market Drivers
HP LoadRunner
HP Performance Center

3. Market Drivers
Application Modernization

4. Application Modernization
was is
People
Process
Technology

5. Application Modernizationis
needs
People
Collaboration
Tracking (auditing/versioning)
Multi-Persona support
Process
Agility
Reporting
“Single point of truth”
Technology
Innovation
Ease of use
New technologies

6. Application Modernizationis
needs
People
Collaboration
Tracking (auditing/versioning)
Multi-Persona support
Management:
Performance Center
Process
Agility
Reporting
“Single point of truth”
Automation:
LoadRunner
Technology
Innovation
Ease of use
New technologies

7. HP Performance Center HP Performance Center Family
Solutions for management and automation of performance optimization
HP Performance Center Family
Performance Testing: LoadRunner / Performance Center
VuGen
Controller
Load Generator
Analysis
Monitors
User/privilege management
Infrastructure management
Central repository
Global access & collaboration
Requirements & Defects
Management Framework: Performance Center
Resource pooling & scheduling
Diagnostics
J2EE
.NET
SOA
SAP
Oracle

8. Performance testing: HP LoadRunner & HP Performance Center
What’s New in 11.0?

9. HP LoadRunner The market leading solution for performance validation
Enables a consistent, repeatable process to:
Emulate production workload to test a broad range of applications
Identify performance bottlenecks, diagnose the root cause of issues
Optimize application performance before deployment
Reduce risk of deploying systems that do not meet performance requirements
Reduce cost by predicting scalability and capacity and eliminating over-deployment
Reduce time by shortening test cycle time. Accelerate delivery of high quality applications

10. LoadRunner 11.0 LoadRunner TruClient Multi-level reporting
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous

11. The challenge: Scripting process
Current scripting process
Record a script
Correlations
Parameterize data
Add transactions
Add logic
Sequential process takes time
Scripting expertise needed (especially for complex apps)
Protocol level scripts break with minor app changes

12. The challenge: Scripting for web 2.0 apps
New Web 2.0 technologies
Many technologies, frameworks and toolkits
Very customizable – almost no “vanilla” usage
Dynamic, asynchronous behavior
Client-side processing and logic
Most testing solutions do not support all the customizations
Services
Web Server
Web Services
App Server
Data Server
Networks
Cloud
EDW
Client

13. INTRODUCING: LoadRunner TruClient
The revolutionary way of scripting modern apps
NEW!
Scripting engine embedded within browser
No correlations required!
Data can be parameterized while scripting
Interactive, dynamic scripting!
Transactions, and logic can be added while scripting
Supports all Ajax applications
Automatic suggestion of automated steps

14. LoadRunner TruClient Faster: Reduces test cycle time
Benefits
Record a script
Parameterize data
Add Transactions
Add Logic
Faster: Reduces test cycle time
Interactive, dynamic scripting: customize as you record
Especially relevant in Agile
Easier: Less expertise required
No correlations, no programming required
Ideal for beginners and less technical scripters
More robust: more re-use of scripts
Supports all AJAX based applications
Patented solution!

15. LoadRunner 11.0 LoadRunner TruClient Multi-level reporting
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous

16. The challenge: Reporting
Reporting for multiple personas
Tedious process
Consumes time
Introduces delays
Not efficient
Generate reports from LoadRunner
Manually add or remove graphs
For each stakeholder persona
Create multiple sets of report
Manually convert to various formats

17. LoadRunner: Multi-level reporting
Reporting for multiple personas
Support for multiple report templates
Out of the box and customizable templates for various personas
Generates multiple reports simultaneously
Save in various formats such as pdf, etc.
Create multiple templates
Send to various personas

18. LoadRunner: Multi-level reporting
Benefits
Saves time required to create multiple reports
Makes creating reports much easier
Customized reports gives concise, easily-readable information
Increases visibility

19. LoadRunner 11.0 LoadRunner TruClient Multi-level reporting
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous

20. LoadRunner 11.0 New protocols New Microsoft Silverlight virtual user
Platforms, Environments, Protocols
New protocols
New Microsoft Silverlight virtual user
New Java-over-http virtual users
New ServiceTest virtual user
Platforms and Environments
Support for IE8, Win 7, Win Server 2008 SP2
64 bit support (32-bit app) - for all components except recording)

21. LoadRunner 11.0 LoadRunner TruClient Multi-level reporting
What’s new?
LoadRunner TruClient
Multi-level reporting
New Protocols
Environments & Platforms
Miscellaneous

22. LoadRunner 11.0 Data format extensions Miscellaneous
HTTP Snapshot viewer
Support for Citrix Web Access (nFuse)
Improvements to correlation studio
Analysis reporting improvements
Analysis performance improvements

23. Performance test management framework: HP Performance Center
What’s New in 11.0?

24. HP Performance Center
The platform for enterprise-level performance testing
Globally accessible, centralized platform that enables consistent, repeatable processes for:
Test planning, scheduling, execution and reporting across multiple concurrent projects and multiple people
Defining performance requirements, tracking coverage and ensuring traceability to defects
Monitoring, analysis and diagnostics to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks
Reporting in real time as well as trending across multiple tests and iterations
Maximize productivity and collaboration in distributed teams through 24x7 web interface
Maximize utilization of resources through pooling and sharing of licenses, hardware and software.
LABEL GOES HERE
Increase process efficiency, produce better quality applications via Center of Excellence model

25. Performance Center11.0 Performance Requirements & Defects
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM

26. The challenge: requirements & defects
Traceability and coverage
Performance requirements defined ad-hoc
SLAs/SLOs (Service Level Agreements/Objectives)
No reporting on requirements covered in tests
No tracking from defects to see affected requirements
Hard to track status & quality to business requirements

27. Performance Requirements
Performance Center 11.0
Performance Requirements & Defects, Coverage reports
Requirement coverage
Performance Requirements
Requirement status

28. Performance requirements & defects
Benefits
Save performance requirements (such as SLAs, throughput requirements, etc) with the project
Log and track issues as performance defects, and assign defects to specific people to fix
Complete traceability between performance requirements and defects to show what defect is affecting which requirement
Show the exact status of a requirement at any given time

29. Performance Center 11.0 Performance Requirements & Defects
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM

30. The challenge: Center of Excellence needs
Collaboration
CoE with multiple people and multiple projects needs
Version control
Asset sharing across various tests and projects
Grouping of various projects together in logical units

31. Performance Center 11.0 Performance Center
Next-gen platform: based on the ALM platform
Performance Center
Performance Testing
Performance Lab Mgmt (scheduling)
Performance Requirements & Defects
Performance Test Management
ALM Platform
Collaboration
Traceability
Reporting
Version Control
Admin Console
Users & license
Projects
CoE
Authentication
Authorization
Workflow
APIs, Integrations

32. Performance Center 11.0 Admin features: CoE features: Version control
Next-gen platform: based on the ALM platform
CoE features:
Version control
Asset sharing
Project grouping
Admin features:
High availability
System checks
Enables collaboration
Increases efficiency

33. Performance Center 11.0 Performance Requirements & Defects
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM

34. The challenge
Infrastructure of System Under Test
Performance testers often do not know the infrastructure they are testing against
Need information to setup monitors
Need information to track configuration changes
Majority of problems occur due to infrastructure configuration issues, not necessarily due to application issues

35. Performance Center 11.0 Topology
Drag & drop from list to build your topology diagram
Define machine names and properties
Right click to set up monitors

36. Performance Center: Topology
Benefits
Save infrastructure information (servers, configurations, etc) with the project
Make tracking of infrastructure changes easier
Save time in setting up monitors
Make monitor setup easier

37. Performance Center 11.0 Performance Requirements & Defects
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM

38. Performance Center 11.0 Categorization of Load Generators
Miscellaneous
Categorization of Load Generators
“Mark” load generators with specific configurations
Ability to search for and book load generators with specific attributes

39. Shows when you can start a test based on your requirements
Performance Center 11.0
Miscellaneous
Timeslots
Redone in Outlook fashion
More information available regarding booked timeslots
Allows for maintenance windows
Shows when you can start a test based on your requirements

40. Gives information on used timeslots
Performance Center 11.0
Timeslots
Gives information on used timeslots

41. Performance Center 11.0 Performance Requirements & Defects
What’s new?
Performance Requirements & Defects
Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence
Topology
Miscellaneous
Performance Center with HP ALM

42. The challenge: Application Lifecycle
Tracking & managing across the Application Lifecycle
Need a single dashboard to track the status of a project across the application lifecycle
Functional & non-functional requirements
Functional defects & performance bottlenecks
Functional testing & performance testing
Single dashboard
Enable integrations between products

43. Performance Center with ALM
PC merges with ALM and becomes part of it
Performance Center merged with HP ALM
Common dashboard & Reporting
Performance Testing
Lab Mgmt (scheduling)
Requirements & Defects (all types)
Test Management (all types)
Development Integrations
Project Planning & Tracking
Release Mgmt
Models
ALM Platform
PC-only components
Merged components
ALM-only components

44. Performance Center and ALM
Two ways to deploy
Stand-alone PC (customer may or may not have ALM or QC)
PC & ALM Combined (PC only integrates with ALM, not QC))
Performance Center
ALM Platform
Performance Testing
Lab Mgmt (scheduling)
Performance Requirements & Defects
Performance Test Management
ALM Platform
Performance Testing
Lab Mgmt (scheduling)
Requirements & Defects (all types)
Test Management (all types)
Development Integrations
Project Planning & Tracking
Common dashboard & Reporting
Release Mgmt
Models
Performance Center merged with HP ALM

45. Performance Center with HP ALM
Benefits
PC integrates and merges with HP ALM to give
One place for all requirements
One place for all defects
Single dashboard to show status of requirements and defects across the application lifecycle
Enterprise visibility into quality of the application
HP Confidential
6 April 2017

46. Summary
What’s New in 11.0?

47. LoadRunner & Performance Center
Version 11.0
Major release with lots of new features
Multiple patents on many of the features
Makes test automation and execution easier, faster
Supports testing for various types of applications
Enables and facilitates center of excellence
Helps manage quality across the entire application lifecycle

48. Outcomes that matter.