Overview
Introduction
Menu and Navigation Overview
The ZebraTester menu structure is somewhat different from other applications. Menu options are always context-sensitive; that is, only options relevant to the current operation are displayed. Also, there is no "main menu" or "main application window" (even though one of the menus has the title "Main Menu").
Recording Web Surfing Sessions with ZebraTester
Recording a Web-surfing session is supported by using any web browser, like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Safari.
You can use also ZebraTester in either Firefox or Chrome without installing their respective Apica Recorder Extensions.
However, without either Firefox or Chrome browser extension, you must reconfigure your Web browser before you will be able to record a Web-surfing session. This is described in the Installation Guide, Chapter 3:
Recording - Additional information
Recording can also be done on web surfing sessions of client programs.
Processing Recording
After recording a web session, a number of further steps should be performed.
The Session Cutter Menu allows combining one or more web surfing sessions to form a new session, similar to splicing motion picture films together to create a complete movie.
Inner Loops
It is possible to define “inner loops” which include only some web pages of a recorded web surfing session.
Session Parameters
After a web surfing session has been recorded, the load test program can be generated.
Generate Program
Only URLs that are visible in the main menu are used by the load test program. This means that you can use the URL filter to exclude certain types of URLs from being executed by the load test program.
Executing Load Test Programs
After the load test program has been called by the Project Navigator, you must enter the test input parameters for the test run (a single execution of the load test program is also called “test run”).
Analyzing Results
Measurement results can be analyzed using the Analyze Load Tests menu, into which the statistics result files can be loaded.
Context Help
All views provide context-specific help text, available using the Help button