Load Runner Overview

Load Runner is an HP product originally owned by Mercury. Currently, it has a 70% market share in the world of performance testing.

Load runner is a 3 stage architecture.

• Vugen - records & enhances scripts
• Controller - generates user load as defined in ru-time settings
• Analyzer - used to analyze the results of the performance test.

These 3 components are available independently or as a package.

Load runner supports almost all protocols

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