Systems & Software Talk 

Vugen Output Log Transaction Parser

I propose that it is important to provide performance data to your customer as soon as you have it in hand. Please read on.

• Do you think it useful to provide early transaction measurement reports to your customer?
• Is your first test weeks away and you have one or more scripts developed?
• Do you have a practice of test-driving your scripts after all correlation and parameterization is complete?
• Is it too time-consuming to take individual scripts and drop them into a LoadRunner or PerformanceCenter-based scenario and get early measurement data?
• Is it valuable to get a single user business-process baseline and easily produce a report without going through LoadRunner or PerformanceCenter?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above and agree with my opening proposition, then the report-generating Version 1.1 Utility Under Here is right for you. The utility is under the "Attachment" link located in the header of the post. Please read the information and follow the instructions in the post. Look for a Version 2.0 by the end of July 2007. Version 2.0 will properly handle transactions in the vuser_init and vuser_end sections.

If you have no need for this from a LoadRunner perspective, please feel free to use it as reference code for manipulating Excel(tm Microsoft Corp.) spreadsheets.

Please let me know if you use this and find it useful! Please do not report any bugs to me - fix 'em yourself!  (No - just kidding!)  Please do report them to me. Thank you.

If you have a need for examples of manipulating spreadsheets programmatically this code has examples.