How to record file download in loadrunner

 · I need to calculate how much time it is taking to download the file. There is a button called "download file" in my www.doorway.ru I click on this button, windows dialog box will pop up asking either to open or save the file. During the recording of the script through load runner,it is not recording the actions done on the windows dialog box.  · As we know LoadRunner does not recognize the Client side activities, so the activity of saving file on local machine will not be recorded by LoadRunner. Below is the one way to resolve this. Just before the URL which opens the PDF, capture the whole page into a string through correlation and write the captured string into a PDF file using File.  · LoadRunner provides a simple recording option to record the performance testign script. You just need to provide application URL and start the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.

VUGen (Virtual User Generator) is a key tool in LoadRunner to create testing scripts to emulate real-user behavior on your system. In VUGen, a human is replaced by a virtual user (VUser) and the actions performed by a VUser are recorded in VUser script to emulate the real-user behavior for testing and monitoring. Saving a file to the local machine during recording of a pdf download script in loadrunner VUgen, by clicking on"save as" button, is a client side activity and does not get recorded. But the action on web page which results the file download box gets recorded in VUgen and actually downloads the file (pdf file/Zip file). How to download and upload the file in loadrunner. Currently i am not able to download file and save the file locally. When i tried checking by adding below function, to check the file is being downloaded or not. Below ducntion does shows the data is being downloaded. I want to save the file and upload in next step.

With the file download model, essentially you just need to worry about whether the download of the file happens within the length of the video. Vugen (Loadrunner. I need to calculate how much time it is taking to download the file. There is a button called "download file" in my www.doorway.ru I click on this button, windows dialog box will pop up asking either to open or save the file. During the recording of the script through load runner,it is not recording the actions done on the windows dialog box. Record the script with a local file. Add all the files (to be uploaded) to scripts by clicking “Add Files to Scripts ” menu from “Files - Add Files to Scripts ”. Now clear file location and just leave the file name. These scripts should run from any load generators in the network or can be run from Performance center ALM too.