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THE INDUSTRY-STANDARD LOAD-TESTING SOLUTION

Todays corporate IT systems must support thousands of users, multiple application environments, and a complicated mix of vendor components. Unpredictable user loads and enormous application complexity put organizations at risk for delivering
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Supports the Most Common Enterprise Environments: Offers comprehensive support for the most common protocols and technologies. Uncovers Bottlenecks in Complex IT Infrastructures: Real-time performance monitors help quickly identify and resolve bottlenecks before deployment. Helps Ensure that Performance Requirements will be Met: Uses sophisticated correlation, analysis and reporting capabilities to help improve application performance. Leverages Investments in Other Solutions: Fully integrates with Mercury Interactives suite of testing products.

poor performance, which impacts users and the bottom line. To combat this risk, IT organizations must test their applications for system, user and network scalability, as well as quality and performance, before deployment.

Mercury Interactives LoadRunner is the industrystandard load-testing solution for measuring and analyzing the behavior and performance of enterprise applications. It exercises an entire enterprise infrastructure by emulating thousands of users, and employs performance monitors to identify and isolate problems. Through this process, LoadRunner enables users to obtain an accurate picture of end-to-end system performance, verify that new or upgraded applications meet specified performance requirements, and identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks during the development lifecycle. Ultimately, this allows organizations to minimize testing cycles, accelerate deployment, optimize performance and reduce risks.

employs real-time performance monitors that capture and display performance data from every tier, server and component. LoadRunners sophisticated analysis module allows users to drill down to determine the specific source of bottlenecks within the application architecture and generate actionable reports. LoadRunner supports performance and scalability testing for the widest range of enterprise environments and is the only loadtesting product to be customized to work with all ERP/CRM applications from PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP and Siebel. LoadRunner also integrates with the leading J2EE development environments, as well as with Microsofts Visual Studio .NET, to dramatically accelerate the testing of applications built using these tools. LoadRunner integrates fully with Mercury Interactives family of testing products, including WinRunner and QuickTest Professional for functional testing and TestDirector for global test management. LoadRunner scripts can also be reused with ProTune to optimize systems in production and with Topaz to monitor application performance, availability and service levels in production. LoadRunner also integrates with LoadRunner TestCenter, Mercury Interactives global Quality Center test solution.

HOW LOADRUNNER WORKS

Using minimal hardware resources, LoadRunner
LoadRunners Controller provides the central point for managing, monitoring and executing load and performance tests.

emulates hundreds or thousands of concurrent users to put the application through the rigors of real-life user loads for virtually any client platform. IT professionals can stress an application from end-to-end across all architectural tiersapplying consistent, measurable and repeatable loadsthen use the data to identify scalability issues before they impact end users. LoadRunner measures the response times of key business processes and transactions, uncovering end-to-end performance problems. The product

T E S T

ISOLATING BOTTLENECKS WITH PERFORMANCE MONITORS AND ANALYSIS

LoadRunner uses a suite of integrated performance monitors to quickly isolate performance bottlenecks. They consist of monitors for the network, application servers, J2EE, Web servers and database servers. These monitors are designed to accurately measure the performance within and across every tier, server and component of the system during the load test. In addition, the LoadRunner Analysis module automatically correlates this performance data with end-user response times, so the user can quickly and easily determine the impact and source of bottlenecks. The LoadRunner Analysis module also automatically generates standard and custom management reports for communicating to management the applications capacity to deliver to business requirements.
LoadRunners Virtual User Generator creates test scripts that are used to emulate real user business processes during a load test.

SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS
LoadRunner supports a wide array of enterprise environments and technologies, including the following:

PROTOCOLS
Clients Web HTTP(S) SOAP Streaming WAP Winsock XML ERP/CRM Oracle PeopleSoft SAP Siebel Middleware BEA Tuxedo COM/DCOM EJBs Jacada MQSeries

PERFORMANCE MONITORS
Web Application Server Monitors BEA WebLogic IBM WebSphere Sun ONE Application Server Oracle 9iAS Web Server Monitors Apache Sun ONE Web Server Microsoft IIS Middleware Monitors BEA Tuxedo J2EE IBM MQ Series Middleware Monitors Com+ EJB/JNDI/JDBC/JSP Database Monitors IBM DB2

ABOUT MERCURY INTERACTIVE

Mercury Interactive is the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO). Our Optane suite of testing, tuning and performance-management solutions enables companies to unlock the value of their Information Technology investments by optimizing business and technology performance to meet business requirements. With Mercury Interactive, customers can measure the quality of their IT-enabled business processes, maximize technology and business performance at every stage of the application lifecycle, and manage their IT operations for continuous optimization throughout the lifecycle. Our leading-edge BTO software and services are complemented by technologies and services from our global business partners, and are used by more than 30,000 customersincluding 75 percent of Fortune 500 companiesto improve quality, reduce costs and align IT with business goals.
LoadRunner Analysis quickly generates dozens of standard reports in HTML and Microsoft Word that clearly show the quality and performance of the business processes relative to business requirements. LoadRunners Analysis and performance monitors split transaction response times within and across each application tier, including component level breakdowns for J2EE.

RMI Databases IBM DB2 Microsoft SQL Server Oracle Sybase

Microsoft SQL Server Oracle Sybase ERP/CRM SAP R/3 Siebel PeopleSoft Network Monitors Network Delay SNMP WAN Emulation OS Monitors Linux UNIX Windows NT, 2000, XP

LoadRunner, Optane, ProTune, Topaz, QuickTest, TestDirector, WinRunner, Mercury Interactive and the Mercury Interactive logo are trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation in the United States and/or select foreign countries. All other company, brand and product names are marks of their respective holders. 2003 Mercury Interactive Corporation. Patents pending. All rights reserved. 2/03 PART # DS-0399-0203

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