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Silk Performer 20.5 Help Micro Focus The Lawn 22-30 Old Bath Road Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QN UK http://www.microfocus.com © Copyright 1992-2019 Micro Focus or one of its affiliates. MICRO FOCUS, the Micro Focus logo and Silk Performer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micro Focus or one of its affiliates. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 2019-10-28 ii Contents Silk Performer Workbench 20.5 .........................................................................6 What's New in Silk Performer 20.5 ......................................................................................6 Results Publishing with InfluxDB and Grafana ......................................................... 6 Record and Replay Windows File Selection Dialog in SAPGUI ............................... 6 Granular Selection of Measures for Real-time Monitoring ........................................6 Web on Protocol-level Enhancements ......................................................................6 Browser-driven Load Testing Enhancements ...........................................................7 CloudBurst Enhancements .......................................................................................7 Workbench and Editor Enhancements .....................................................................7 Technology Updates .................................................................................................7 Getting Started ....................................................................................................................7 Introduction to Silk Performer .................................................................................. 7 Benefits of Using Silk Performer ...............................................................................8 Tour of the UI ............................................................................................................8 Managing Your Load Testing: Start to Finish Overview ..........................................11 Upgrading to Silk Performer 20.5 .......................................................................... 22 Performance and Scalability Matrix ........................................................................22 Memory Footprints by Application Type ................................................................. 24 Sample Web 2.0 Application .................................................................................. 31 Configuring Silk Performer ............................................................................................... 32 System Settings ..................................................................................................... 33 Remote Agents .......................................................................................................51 Client Certificates ................................................................................................... 56 Custom Screen Layouts ......................................................................................... 58 Managing Multiple Versions of Silk Performer ........................................................59 Managing Load Tests ....................................................................................................... 59 Outlining Projects ................................................................................................... 59 Modeling Scripts ...................................................................................................114 Trying Out Scripts .................................................................................................174 Customizing Scripts ..............................................................................................178 Defining User Types ............................................................................................. 197 Finding Baselines ................................................................................................. 198 Viewing Baselines ................................................................................................ 202 Adjusting Workload .............................................................................................. 205 Assigning Agents ..................................................................................................212 Trying Out Agents .................................................................................................226 Configuring Monitoring ......................................................................................... 227 Running Load Tests ..............................................................................................229 Exploring Test Results ..........................................................................................236 Load Testing Specific Application Types ......................................................................... 245 Flex/AMF3 Support .............................................................................................. 246 Web Applications Support ....................................................................................262 Testing Apps for Mobile Devices .......................................................................... 335 Responsive Web Design Testing ..........................................................................338 BMC Remedy IT Service Management Support ..................................................338 Citrix XenApp Support ..........................................................................................341 .NET Support ....................................................................................................... 365 GUI-Level Testing Support ................................................................................... 403 Jacada Support .................................................................................................... 415 Java Support ........................................................................................................ 417 OnWeb Mainframe-to-Web Testing Support .........................................................443 Contents | 3 Oracle Forms / Oracle Applications Support ........................................................444 SAP Support ........................................................................................................ 468 Siebel Support ......................................................................................................489 Microsoft Silverlight Support ................................................................................ 500 Terminal Emulation Support ................................................................................. 500 TCP/IP Based Protocol Support ...........................................................................503 Load Testing PeopleSoft .......................................................................................519 HLS Support .........................................................................................................528 Load Testing in Specific Environments ........................................................................... 528 Silk Performer CloudBurst .................................................................................... 528 Developing Performance Tests in Visual Studio ................................................... 535 Multibyte Support ................................................................................................. 537 Network Emulation ............................................................................................... 540 Windows Vista and Windows 7 ............................................................................ 540 Silk Performer Plug-Ins ................................................................................................... 541 Plug-In Initialization and Configuration .................................................................542 Message Output ................................................................................................... 542 AppDynamics Plug-In ...........................................................................................543 Dynatrace AppMon Plug-In .................................................................................. 544 Dynatrace SaaS and Managed Plug-In ................................................................545 Integrating Silk Performer with InfluxDB and Grafana .......................................... 545 Silk Central Integration ....................................................................................................548 Configuring Silk Central Integration ......................................................................549 Opening Silk Performer Projects from Silk Central ..............................................549 Checking Out and Editing Downloaded Projects ..................................................550 Importing Projects from Silk Central ....................................................................550 Uploading Projects to Silk Central .......................................................................551 Uploading Test Results to Silk Central ................................................................ 552 Downloading Test Results from Silk Central ........................................................552 Silk Performance Manager Integration ............................................................................553