Whats new in Performance Center 11.0

Performance Center 11.0What’s New

September 2010

Agenda

Market Drivers

HP LoadRunner

HP Performance Center

Market DriversApplication Modernization

Application Modernization

People

Process

Technology

was is

• Innovation

• Ease of use• New technologies

• Agility• Reporting• “Single point of truth”

• Collaboration• Tracking

(auditing/versioning)• Multi-Persona support


People

Process

Technology

is needs

• Innovation

• Ease of use• New technologies

• Agility• Reporting• “Single point of truth”

• Collaboration• Tracking

(auditing/versioning)• Multi-Persona support


People

Process

Technology

is needs

Automation:

LoadRunner

Management:

Performance Center

Solutions for management and automation of performance optimization


User/privilege

management

Infrastructure

management

Central repository

Global access &

collaboration

Requirements & Defects

Management Framework: Performance Center

Resource pooling & scheduling

HP Performance Center Family

Performance Testing: LoadRunner / Performance Center

VuGen Controller Load Generator Analysis Monitors

Diagnostics

J2EE .NET SOA SAP Oracle

Performance testing: HP LoadRunner & HP Performance Center

What’s New in 11.0?

The market leading solution for performance validation

HP LoadRunner

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

TruClient Technology

What’s new?

LoadRunner 11.0

Miscellaneous

Multi-level reporting

New Protocols

Environments & Platforms

– Sequential process takes time

– Scripting expertise needed (especially for complex apps)

– Protocol level scripts break with minor app changes

Current scripting process

The challenge: Scripting process

Record a script Correlations Parameteriz

e data

Add transaction

sAdd logic

– 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

New Web 2.0 technologies

The challenge: Scripting for web 2.0 apps

Services

Web Server

Web Service

s

Web Server

Web Server

Web Server

App Server

Data Server

NetworksData

Server

Cloud

App Server

EDW

Client

Available in LoadRunner & Performance Center!

The revolutionary way of scripting modern apps

INTRODUCING: HP TruClient Technology

NEW!

Scripting engine embedded

within browser

Transactions, and logic can be

added while scripting

Data can be parameterized

while scripting

Automatic suggestion of

automated steps

No correlations

required!

Interactive, dynamic

scripting!

Supports all Ajax

applications

– 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!

Benefits

LoadRunner TruClient

Record a scriptParameterize dataAdd Transactions

Add Logic

Miscellaneous



New Protocols


What’s new?

LoadRunner 11.0

– Tedious process

– Consumes time

– Introduces delays

– Not efficient

Reporting for multiple personas

The challenge: Reporting

Generate reports from LoadRunner

Manually add or remove graphs

Create multiple sets of report

Manually convert to various formats

For each stakeholder persona

– 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.

Reporting for multiple personas

LoadRunner: Multi-level reporting

Create multiple templates

Send to various personas

– Saves time required to create multiple reports

– Makes creating reports much easier

– Customized reports gives concise, easily-readable information

– Increases visibility

Benefits

LoadRunner: Multi-level reporting

Miscellaneous



New Protocols


What’s new?

LoadRunner 11.0

– 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)

Platforms, Environments, Protocols

LoadRunner 11.0

Miscellaneous



New Protocols


What’s new?

LoadRunner 11.0

Miscellaneous

LoadRunner 11.0

Data format extensions

HTTP Snapshot viewer

Support for Citrix Web Access (nFuse)

Improvements to correlation studio

Analysis reporting improvements

Analysis performance improvements

Performance test management framework:HP Performance Center


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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

LABEL GOES HERE

Maximize productivity and collaboration in distributed teams through 24x7 web interface

Maximize utilization of resources through pooling and sharing of licenses, hardware and software.

Increase process efficiency, produce better quality applications via Center of Excellence model

Next-gen platform for Center of Excellence

What’s new?

Performance Center11.0

Miscellaneous

Performance Requirements & Defects

Performance Center with HP ALM

Topology

– 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

Collaboration

The challenge: Center of Excellence needs

– CoE features:• Version control• Asset sharing• Project grouping

–Admin features:• High availability • System checks

– Enables collaboration

– Increases efficiency

Next-gen platform: based on the ALM platform

Performance Center 11.0

Miscellaneous




Topology

What’s new?


– 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

Traceability and coverage

The challenge: requirements & defects

Performance Requirements & Defects, Coverage reports


Performance

Requirements

Requirement status

Requirement coverage

– 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

Benefits

Performance requirements & defects

Miscellaneous




Topology

What’s new?


– 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

Tracking & managing across the Application Lifecycle

The challenge: Application Lifecycle

PC merges with ALM and becomes part of it

Performance Center with ALM

PC-only components

Merged components

ALM-only components

Performance Center merged with HP ALM

ALM Platform

Performance Testing

Lab Mgmt (schedulin

g)

Requirements &

Defects (all types)

Test Manageme

nt (all types)

Development

Integrations

Project Planning

& Tracking

Common dashboard & Reporting

Release

MgmtModels

– Stand-alone PC (customer may or may not have ALM or QC)

Two ways to deploy

Performance Center and ALM

Performance Center

ALM Platform

Performance Testing

Lab Mgmt (schedulin

g)

Performance

Requirements & Defects

Performance Test

Management

– PC & ALM Combined

– PC only integrates with ALM, not with QC

– When PC integrates with ALM, it actually merges and becomes part of ALM

Two ways to deploy

Performance Center and ALM

ALM Platform

Performance Testing

Lab Mgmt (schedulin

g)

Requirements &

Defects (all types)

Test Manageme

nt (all types)

Development

Integrations

Project Planning

& Tracking

Common dashboard & Reporting

Release

Mgmt

Models

Performance Center merged with HP ALM

PC-only components

Merged components

ALM-only components

– 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

– Customer may choose to deploy the way they want

Benefits


Miscellaneous




Topology

What’s new?


– 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

Infrastructure of System Under Test

The challenge

Topology


Drag & drop from list to build

your topology diagram

Define machine names and properties

Right click to set up monitors

– 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

Benefits

Performance Center: Topology

Miscellaneous




Topology

What’s new?


– Timeslots • Redone in Outlook fashion• More information available regarding booked

timeslots• Allows for maintenance windows

Miscellaneous


Shows when you can start a test based on your requirements

Timeslots


Gives information on used timeslots

– Categorization of Load Generators• “Mark” load generators with specific

configurations• Ability to search for and book load generators

with specific attributes

Miscellaneous


Summary


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– 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

Version 11.0

LoadRunner & Performance Center

Outcomes that matter.

Whats new in Performance Center 11.0

Technology

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