2. Scripting the Load Test Session

As a category, once you have a Load Test session, these are the areas that will need addressing

1. HTTP Response Verification & Failure Actions: Validate HTTP responses and what to do when they are not as expected.

2. Var Handler: This powerful tool displays detailed information about a recorded URL and supports composing dynamically exchanged session parameters over the entire Web-surfing session. At the Var Handler’s core is extracting values from received HTML pages into variables - from HTML forms or hyperlink-parameters - and to assign such variables to parameters of succeeding HTTP requests, instead of using the "burned in" values of a recorded Web surfing session. 

   1. Var Finder: Searches and finds dynamically-exchanged CGI (or form) parameters. Var Finder also supports extracting variables from Input files and from "user input fields" (global load test program parameters).

   2. Input fields

   3. Input files

3. Inner Loops

4. URL Loops

5. User-Defined Transactions and Page Breaks

6. Inline Scripts

7. Load Test Plugins

8. User-Defined data points