Setting Repeats

• Advanced Repeat Options (Pacing and Inter-Repeat Delays)
• Setting Repeats on Tracks and Clips
• Setting Repeats by Property
• Setting Repeats for Each
• Setting Repeats While
• Setting Sequential Repeats on Chains and Clips
• Renew Parallel Repeats
• Dynamic Ramp Adjustment (Virtual User Ramp Controller)

Advanced Topics

• Test Clip/Target-level System/Custom Properties
• Extended Error Logging
• Specifying Maestro Locations and Play Options
• Custom Properties
• Creating an External Data Source
• Integrating CA Wily Introscope as an External Data Source
• Integrating AppDynamics as an External Data Source
• Integrating Amazon CloudWatch as an External Data Source
• Integrating New Relic as an External Data Source
• Generated Custom Property Values
• Using DNS Lookups
• Pause and Resume Ramp
• Defining Ramps for a Track or Timed Clip
• Staging a Complex Composition for Play
• Custom Modules
• Bypass Proxy List for Maestro
• JSON Extraction using JSONPath

Debugging

• Introduction to Debugging
• Debugging a Test

CloudTest Pro/Enterprise

• Results DB Selection for a Composition
• Results DB Selection for a Monitor
• Volumes and Snapshots
• Support for AWS Security Groups (CloudTest Pro/Enterprise)

Analytic Dashboard

Analytic Dashboard

• Dashboard/Widget Selection Panel
• Creating a New Dashboard
• Adding a Widget to a Dashboard
• Creating a New Widget Library
• Changing Widgets and Dashboards
• Filtering Dashboards and Widgets
• Filtering Collection Widgets
• Sorting Widget Data
• Specifying Results in Dashboards
• Viewing Widgets Side By Side
• Printing a Dashboard
• Interacting with Charts
• Interacting with Activity Maps
• Viewing Analysis Data
• Widget-on-Widget Layout and Combining or Correlating Charts
• Split and Combine by Dimension
• Performance Intelligence Dashboards
• Percentile and Standard Deviation in Collection Charts
• Multi-Result Comparison Dashboard
• Result Details Dashboard
• Rename Axis Titles for Time Charts
• Correlate a Monitor with a Monitor
• Correlate a Result with a Monitor
• Understanding Metrics in CloudTest Analytics

Property Analytics

• Property Analytics
• Automatic Creation of a Custom Property
• Auto Create a Custom Property for Akamai
• Auto Create a Custom Property from an HTTP Response
• Property Analytic Widgets

Test Results

• Introduction to Test Results
• Result Objects
• Managing Results
• Exporting Results
• Export Multiple Results to CSV or XML Spreadsheet Format
• Creating Report Templates and Reports
• Report Template Reference
• Locating Retrieved CSS Resources in Results
• Dashboard Slideshows

Monitoring

• Introduction to Monitoring
• Default Monitoring
• Creating Monitor Server Groups
• Creating a New Monitor
• Starting and Stopping a Monitor
• Starting a Monitor Automatically When a Test Composition Runs
• Monitoring the CPU Usage of a Server
• Checking Monitor Service Status
• Starting and Stopping a Monitor from the Command Line (Scommand Reference; see start and stop)
• Custom Commands for Monitoring
• Monitoring a Server Behind a Firewall
• Monitoring Apache Tomcat
• Monitoring Caucho Resin
• Monitoring Adobe ColdFusion
• Monitoring JBoss
• Monitoring Linux
• Monitoring Mac OS X
• Monitoring MS Windows
• Monitoring MySQL
• Monitoring Network Devices
• Monitoring PostgreSQL
• Monitoring Solaris
• Monitoring AIX
• Monitoring Using PKI
• Monitoring Using DCOM/WMI
• Monitoring Mobile Devices

mPulse™ Analytics

• mPulse Dashboard Widgets
• mPulse Globe Dashboard
• mPulse Analytics: Time Zone Filtering
• mPulse Analytics: Session Metrics and Session Timeouts
• mPulse Analytics: Other RUM Widgets
• mPulse Analytics: Global Tearoff Widgets
• mPulse Analytics: Tabular Widget Visualization
• mPulse Analytics: Metric Analysis Dashboard
• mPulse Analytics: Custom Timer Filtering
• mPulse Analytics: Using Dashboard Display Properties
• Rename Axis Titles for Time Charts
• mPulse Custom Dimentions

Scripts

Getting Started

• Script Prerequisites
• Script Basics
• CloudTest Objects
• Setting Properties
• Edit a Linked Script in Clip Editor, List View

Example Scripts

• Send Hello World to a Result
• Stop a Composition from a Script
• Replace a String
• Extract a SessionID
• Traverse the Object Hierarchy
• Construct Custom Values
• Using Dynamic Data
• Dynamic HTTP Redirection
• Data Generation Scripts
• Data Seeding Scripts
• Seeding CSV Data into Multi-Maestro Compositions
• Extraction Scripts
• Validation Scripts
• Error Detection Scripts
• Target/Hostname Modification Scripts
• Miscellaneous Scripts

Reference

• Context
• CustomProperties
• System Properties
• Global Properties
• System Utilities
• Result
• Composition
• Target
• Band, Track, Chain, Checkpoint, and Script
• Clip
• Message
• BrowserAction
• Group
• If
• Switch
• Transaction
• Page
• Delay
• PropertyList
• SystemPropertyList
• In Situ Substitution Expressions (ISSE)

FAQ

Creating and Understanding Validations

• How do I write my own custom validation?
• How do I write my own custom validation that uses data outside of SOASTA CloudTest?
• How do I validate the response time of a Message?
• How do I validate the total response time of several Messages?
• How do I create validation that compares the response of one Message or Browser Action to another?
• How do I create validation whose behavior or comparison values can be changed before the Test Composition is played?

Customizing Results Output

• How do I add my own custom log entries to the Result?
• How do I add my own custom debugging output to a Test Composition?
• How do I limit the size of responses in a large Test Composition?

Parsing Values From Responses

• How do I parse an HTML response for validation or to extract a value?
• How do I parse a JSON response for validation or to extract a value?

Programatically Controlling Behavior

• How do I cause a Test Composition to stop or abort based upon my own custom logic or criterion?
• How do I parameterize a Test Composition (or its components) so that I can change the behavior each time I play it without having to edit it each time?
• How do I programmatically change how many times an item in my Test Composition or Test Clip plays?
• How do I conditionally change whether an item in my Test Composition or Test Clip plays?
• How do I create validation whose behavior or comparison values can be changed before the Test Composition is played?
• How do I dynamically or programmatically substitute a value into a Message or Browser Action before it is sent or played?

Setting, Passing, and Substituting Values

• How do I pass a value from one Test Composition to another?
• How do I save a value so that it can be used from one play of a Test Composition to the next?
• How do I dynamically or programmatically substitute a value into a Message or Browser Action before it is sent or played?
• How do I generate unique values in Messages or Browser Actions?
• How do I cause the Messages, Browser Actions, or Scripts in a Test Clip to use different values when the Test Clip is used in different Test Compositions, or in different places in the same Test Composition?
• How do I override the value of the HTTP “Host” header in requests?
• How do I automatically stop a composition at a specified length of time?

Terminal Sessions and Scheduling

• SCommand Reference (SOASTA Command-Line Utility)
• How do I start a Test Composition playing from the Operating System Command line or from an OS script or batch file? (SCommand Reference; see Delete, Import, and Export)
• How do I delete, import, or export SOASTA items from the Operating System Command line or from an OS script or batch file? (SCommand Reference; see Delete, Import, and Export)
• How do I make my scheduler start a Test Composition playing?

Build Automation

• How do I incorporate into an automated build?

HTTP/HTTPS Life Cycle Management

• How does SOASTA map virtual users to SSL connections? Does each virtual user get an SSL connection, which is kept open for a collection?

Troubleshooting

• Why does my Conductor fail to show interfaces?
• How do I retrieve a VMWare log?
• How do I increase VMWare system memory for CloudTest Lite?
• What does the Taskpool Capacity Exceeded warning mean?

Administration

Account & System Maintenance

• Site Administration
• Accounts
• CloudTest Appliance Administration (ctadmin)

Multi-Machine Setups

• Using Locations
• Using Servers

CloudTest Pro

• Configuring an Amazon EC2 Account to Use CloudTest
• SOASTA Server to Cloud Instance Type Map
• Creating a New Grid
• Managing Grids
• Server Instances
• Server Instances - Summary
• Cloud Provider Account Support for Amazon EC2
• Cloud Provider Account Support for GoGrid
• Cloud Provider Account Support for Google Compute Engine
• Cloud Provider Account Support for HP Cloud
• Cloud Provider Account Support for Rackspace (OpenStack)
• Cloud Provider Account Support for Windows Azure and Azure (IaaS)
• Cloud Provider Account Support for QingCloud
• Cloud Service Provider Status
• Results Databases

Developers

TouchTest Development

• Xcode and iOS Developer Program Prerequisites
• Release Requires New TouchTest Driver
• Case Requires New TouchTest Driver
• Case or Release Requires New TouchTest Agent (Android only)
• Case or Release Requires New TouchTest Web
• Troubleshooting Android Preferences in Eclipse
• How do I resolve the MakeAppTouchTestable "Exception while creating image object" error?
• How do I resolve the Unsupported Android Manifest Property "android:anyDensity="false"" error?
• Uploading a Mobile App IPA or APK (Developers)
• Android build.xml configuration for MakeAppTouchTestable

mPulse™ Setup (Domain Admin)

• mPulse™ Setup
• mPulse Domain Administration
• Creating a Domain
• Creating Users
• Instrumenting Native Apps and Web Sites
• Use Add mPulse on an iOS Project
• Use Add mPulse on an Android Project
• Boomerang Properties
• Using mPulse JavaScript on the Web
• Amazon S3 Upload for for Domain-Specific Beacon Logs (Domain Admin)
• Adding GeoLocations to Apps Used with mPulse
• Configuring mPulse to Use Page Groups
• Configuring mPulse to Measure User Bandwidth
• Configuring mPulse to Measure A/B (Bucket) Tests
• mPulse Custom and Navigation Timers
• mPulse Custom Metrics

mPulse™ Development

• mPulse Aggregate API
• mPulse Aggregate API - Country/Region Code