Best practices

To get the best out of a load test on an Oracle Forms application, the following processes are advised:

Design

• Enable the component naming option on the application server.
• Enable all the Oracle Forms options in the NeoLoad project.
• Close all browser instances before starting a new recording.
• Wherever possible, input user actions in the Oracle Forms applet using the keyboard.
• Input user actions in the applet slowly.
• Limit the number of actions carried out by a Virtual User. If necessary, create several Virtual User profiles that each carry out a separate series of actions.
• Rename the pages during the recording using names that identify the relevant actions carried out in the applet.
• Quit the Oracle Forms applet correctly before ending the recording. You are advised to click on Action --> Exit in the applet rather than close the browser.
• Make sure that the Oracle Forms requests are correctly identified and decoded.
• Validate the key requests in the scenario.
• Use as few validations and Variable Extractors as possible, especially on large-size XML responses.

Validation

• Configure NeoLoad so that it does not error-flag the HTTP 404 response code already present in the recording.
• Play the page think times.
• Validate all the scenario Virtual Users and check that they run correctly with no errors.

Runtime

• Set the scenario Population stop policy as Indeterminate: allow all Virtual Users to end their actions.
• Warm up the server: run a few tests with a small number of simultaneous Virtual Users to warm up the server before submitting it to a heavy load.

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