No this is not a post on how to get free licenses…
There should be no doubt that purchasing LoadRunner licenses is expensive. How Mercury/HP has achieved this stranglehold on the market is strange to behold but it is the way it is.
Needless to say, in another purchasing license cycle I jokingly said to a colleague that it would probably be cheaper to fly to India, hire some office space and PCs, give some training to 100 production workers and pay them 3 months wage to facilitate your whole test effort using real people and PCs. You’d still probably come out ahead of a typical yearly budget for HP products… Or would you?
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Alas, it can’t be done in JMeter. So this is how it works in LoadRunner …
This challenge came up recently and we were able to figure out how to test SPNEGO or Kerberos using Integrated Windows Authentication with LoadRunner.
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The wheel has turned full circle and I’m back in MQ land… So here is a a simple Java vuser harness which you can use in LoadRunner to put or get messages from Websphere MQ. This version doesn’t require any JNDI bindings (or access to JMS). Instead it just uses a standard server connection channel over TCP to get and put messages.
You will need to get the following jars from your Websphere MQ installation:
1. com.ibm.mq.jar
2. connector.jar
3. jta.jar
Make sure you include them in your run-time settings (F4) for your script:
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A. This requires several hacks and use of the developer API …
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A previous post highlights some ways in which you can install watir from behind a proxy server via the command line.
This approach can be problematic when using authenticated proxy servers. The following file is a simple MSI which will install Watir 1.5.6 with its required dependencies. The pre-requisites for this MSI are:
1. Ruby 1.8.6 installed to c:\ruby
2. Windows XP SP2 (I have not tried this on Windows Vista)
Download MSI
Note: this is not the preferred way of installing Watir and as such I cannot offer any guarantees on its success.
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