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I have been experiencing crashes after crashes during recent script development with LoadRunner VuGen (version 9.10)…  I only have a work-around (sort of…) but I don’t have a solution to it.  At least you know you are not alone…

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You can use the AT command-line command to schedule task execution in Windows environment, similar to cron job in the Unix / Linux environment.

You can also do it through a more user-friendly way, by going to Start > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks.

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I was working on a SilkPerformer script that requires me to wait for a couple of seconds before I execute the next step. So the first method that came to mind is of course: ThinkTime().  But this doesn’t work because…

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One time I want my LoadRunner script to output some log messages to the virtual user logs during a load test.  So I used the log_message function and when I tested it out on VuGen, the messages appeared in the run log.  However, when I ran the script in the Controller, I couldn’t find the log.

(more about LoadRunner log_message messages Missing During Load…)

Yesterday when I was testing with LoadRunner and monitoring the controller, I noticed that one of the monitors: Pages Downloaded Per Second Monitor was blacked-out. It seemed that they data is not being collected… Finally I figured out why from the help…

(more about LoadRunner Pages Downloaded Per Second Monitor / Graph…)

Over the past 3 months, I keep getting spam comments.  Of course no one sees them since I have comment moderation on.  But it is still tedious to delete all the spam comments.  So I decided to see if I can get a WordPress plugin that allows CAPTCHA protection, and I’ve found reCAPTCHA plugin!

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Remember a while back I was writing about the CAPTCHA string?  (the “eye-test” when you submit online forms)  Spammers finally hack through some of the most common site’s CAPTCHA protection!

(more about More about CAPTCHA – It is Broken…)

The previous 2 parts both describe how you can retrieve unique row per virtual user on both single or multiple SilkePerformer agent environment. From SilkPerformer 7.3 or above, there will be a lot less work in order to achieve this task.

(more about SilkPerformer Unique Row Per Virtual User (Finale)…)

WebSphere Commerce allows you to enable or disable login timeout for a register user. If the feature is enabled, then once a user is logged on but idle for a certain amount of time, the session will expire and the user has to re-log on again if the user becomes active.

(more about WebSphere Commerce Enable / Disable Login Timeout in Instance XML…)

I just started using Google Analytics for Winnie’s web site (Weddings From Above), and one of the metrics is called Bounce Rate. It is the percentage of single-page visits. In general (from Google) a high bounce rate indicates that the site entrance pages aren’t relevant to your visitors.

(more about Interpretation of Google Analytics Bounce Rate…)