Performance Testing Tools, Script Recorder Types

Performance Testing Tools, Script Recorder Types
 
To perform the load test, any tool should initially record the request, response or browser events; recorders are broadly classified into three types.

1. Proxy recorder – User a small proxy server to intercept and record all the requests/response. This process record the entire communication between client/ server. Tools that use this method are Fiddler, Neoload, Loadrunner (HTTP/HTML)…
 
2. Browser recorder, hooking to IE navigation events – Records IE navigation events, but it doesn’t record all the requests (URL re-directions etc). Tools that use this method are Visual Studio (Convert request into .Net classes) , WebLoad (Convert request into JavaScript objects).
 
3. Browser recorder, based on GUI object selection by user -  Records click events on the GUI objects. Tool that use this method is Loadrunner (Click & Script), Implemented using QTP technology.

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