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To perform a test, you should create a test scenario that defines test volume: the number of virtual users participating in test run and test duration.

Click the "New" button on the toolbar to create a new Scenario.
This will launch a New Scenario Wizard.

Since we are making a simple performance test, choose Capacity/Overall Performance on Page 1 of the Wizard. Click Next to continue to Page 2 and 3

In page 3 of the Wizard choose the Ramp up option and set the final number of users. It means that the quantity of users will gradually increase until it reaches the specified maximum.

Define the test duration.
Click Next to proceed to page 4.

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On page 4 define the advanced options, such as users think time, conection speed, etc., and proceed to Page 5.

Create a new virtual user profile by clicking on the New button. The user profile will describe behavior of the users and their preferred route through the tested site. Rename the profile for more convenience.

Click Next to proceed to page 6, overview the chosen parameters and click Finish to close the Wizard.




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Now we need to define the parameters of the user profile. User profile consists of web pages which will be requested by virtual users of this profile. To add pages to the profile, you can record the real activity in special WAPT recorder browser.

Click on REC button to start WAPT Recorder and select desired profile from the combo-box. Use the profile created in Scenario wizard.




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Type the first URL to be recorded to the program Address bar and press Enter. As you navigate through a web site, WAPT records the steps of your activity in browser. These steps are the basis of your test. During test run, WAPT virtual users will navigate to tested site and perform each step as originally recorded in the sequence of page requests.

When the desired sequence of page requests is formed, you should stop the recording process. Click the Stop Rec button on the toolbar.




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After creating the route for your virtual users, click the Properties Tab in Recorder Window. Here you can view and modify profile properties.

You can modify user think time (before going to the next step) and a number of iterations.
You can edit options of individual requests, so that they would completely satisfy your testing goals. Click on any request in Navigation Pane. Its properties will be displayed in the right pane.




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Before running a test you can define the report settings. Click the Log and Report settingsin left pane under Scenario. Here you can set WAPT to create Full log or just an Error log of the test run.

WAPT can save all timing information of the test run as reports in the "csv" format. To enable this feature check the "Save results to:" option and specify folder where to store report files. CSV files can be easily imported to the Microsoft Excel.

Click the "Run Test" button on the toolbar to start your test.




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You can review the results of test run in the form of text reports and graphs. You can see intermediate results at run-time while your test is being executed. Results are available in the form of Summary Report, Summary Graphs and graphs for all user profiles, test sequences of each profile (Initial, Main and Final) and all individual requests.

You can save results of test run as WAPT results file. For this, click the "Save Results" button on the program toolbar and select "WAPT 4.0 Results Files (*.wpr)" as file type. After saving you will be able to open this file in WAPT and view results in the form of reports and graphs.