Browser compatibility

[lanka swamy]

Hi All,

we have a requirement where we need to execute over scripts/tests in different browsers like.
IE-6,IE-7,IE-8 and Firefox 3.5,Chrome 4.1,safari 4.

Does Load runner support Chrome 4.1 and Safari 4 i have checked in Run time settings we have only IE and FireFox.

Can you some plz help.

Thanks,
Raggas.

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[Krishnakanth PPS]

Check in the HP Specification dude.

Did you look at the home page of Loadrunner before asking here.

Does it not tell about the supported browsers. 

And browser compatibility testing comes under functional testing. IE does not talk anything at browser level as far as I know. It only talks in the network level. 

Maybe you should look at a tool called browsermob.com

KK

[lanka swamy]

Thanks KK..have seen in the HP specification ,,but justed wanted to know has any one tried with different browsers BTW..i hope Browse mob will help me out.

Cheers..Raggas

[Roland Jefferson JR]

Loadrunner records on 1 browser and then takes you into the http world. Browser testing is for functional automation dude's using QTP and the like.  Hope this sheds some light for you.
Roland

On May 19, 2010 3:29 AM, "lanka swamy" <ragg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks KK..have seen in the HP specification ,,but justed wanted to know has any one tried with different browsers BTW..i hope Browse mob will help me out.

Cheers..Raggas

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Krishnakanth PPS <krishnak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> Check i...

[lanka swamy]

I understand...but we get clients with Different(obsolete) requirements and specifications.

[James Pulley]

I understand, but as a performance test professional it is your
obligation and responsibility to educate your clients on what is a
performance requirements (server facing) and what is a functional
requirement (client facing). If you can demonstrate via server logs
(Agent String) that the server believes it has been hit by all of your
different browser types then will the requirement for the mix of browser
types be satisfied. (Just for kicks include an agent string for (IE 10,
Engineering Alpha, .Net 5.00001 Alpha, Do not release in the wild!) and
see if anyone notices.

Barring the cultural divide on IE rendering vs everyone else, the HTML
sent to your client is going to fall into two camps, IE and non-IE.
You can exercise both by changing the agent string. And you only need
to do this if your application specifically calls out differences in
HTML for rendering for IE. Speak to your developers about this, they
should know if they are handling IE generated HTML any differently.
The entire rest of the universe gets the same non-IE HTML in that case.

Next questions: OK, so you have found that Opera and Chrome have a
deviation in performance vs Firefox, IE and the AOL browser version 1.
Since you don't own the source code for opera or chrome what then is
your reconciliation method? How are you going to tune code you don't
have access to for rendering purposes? How will you mandate that your
end clients update to this code and they haven't installed 60 tool bars
which are slowing the browser to a crawl?

James Pulley
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[Krishnakanth PPS]

And continuing to what James pointed out, the next steps from your side should be:

1. Educate them about what should be functional and non functional requirements. I am sure you do use non function requirements gathering where you ask all of your non functional performance testing related questions. And if your onsite/performance testing coordinator was doing his job rite, he should not have put this browser compatibility testing into performance testing. If he did, you need to catch his neck.

2. If what they want to know how to measure the end user performance probably you should look at client side performance optimization tools like Yslow, AOL PageTest and IBM Pagetest. But then they only run on select browsers like YSlow runs on firefox only.

Thanks 

KK

[lanka swamy]

Thanks a Lot Guys...now i need to sit with My... A/c...Managers
should have a Long and strong discussions

Cheers...Raggas...