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Staging Document Editor - Base Tab

The Base tab of the Staging Document Editor describes the basic parameters of a test case:

• The global adjustments to think times
• Duration of the test (elapsed time or number of runs)
• Information to pace tests, such that a specific number of tests complete in a specified time period
• Number of virtual users
• Load patterns for the virtual users
• The distribution patterns for the virtual users

  

The Base tab is divided into the following panels:

• Upper Panel
• Load Pattern Selection Panel
• Distribution Selection Panel

Upper Panel

The upper panel lets you set the following parameters:

Run Name

The name of the staging document.

Think Time

The think time in percentage, for all the test steps in the test case. Each test step can declare a think time in the step information section. Here, you can apply a global change to these think times, as a percentage of their values. For example:

• To eliminate think times, set the percentage to 0%
• To cut think times in half, set the percentage to 50
• To double think times, set the percentage to 200%

Enable CA CAI

You can select to enable or disable CA Continuous Application Insight.

Num Test Executions

The number of test executions to complete in a specific time.

Per Given Time

The time period (wall-clock) in which the tests run.

Values: h for hours, m for minutes, s for seconds

You can specify that 2500 tests complete in 8 minutes.

The think times are not changed to achieve the required pace.

DevTest runs without any pause between tests when the test pace cannot be achieved because it is too high. DevTest reports in the log that the test is running at a lower pace than requested.

DevTest does not add more users if the test pace cannot be achieved because too few virtual users are specified. To estimate the required number of virtual users, see the Optimizer utility.

Load Pattern Selection Panel

The Load Pattern Selection panel lets you complete the following actions:

• Set the test duration
• Set the number of virtual users (instances)
• Set the load pattern for the virtual users (if you have multiple virtual users).

For more information, see Load Pattern Selection.

Distribution Selection Panel

The Distribution Selection panel lets you distribute virtual users (instances) over your running simulators. For more information, see Distribution Selection.