SOAtest web scenarios (, including tests that are automatically-generated tests added when you record from a browser as well as and tests manually - added with the Browser Playback Tool tests) tool, are designed to be run in a browser. Since load Load tests, however, don’t run in a browser. As a result, some configuration is necessary to reuse functional web tests in a load testing environment—where web tests are conducted by sending requests to the server.

Parasoft SOAtest automatically configures your browser-based functional tests for load testing. It also validates them by executing them in a simulated load testing environment. This significantly reduces the setup required to create meaningful web load tests, and helps you to identify and resolve any potential load test issues before the load testing efforts actually begin.

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Recommended Preparation Procedure

The recommended procedure is to We recommend that you configure your tests for load testing as described in Configuring Tests, then validate  and validate that they will work properly as described in Validating Tests.

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The Load Test perspective is designed to help you prepare your web scenarios for load testing. To open the Load Test perspective: Choose Window> Perspective> Open Perspective> Parasoft Load Test to open the Load Test perspective.

This perspective is similar to the SOAtest perspective, but it also provides the following features:

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