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Viewing Test Results


Select Reports from the View menu to open the Reports view. Expand the Sample Script report to display all of the report nodes. There should be one node listed by the date and time in which your latest test was started. Expand and select the top level of this report node to view a summary of this test.

You can select a specific node of the report tree to view more in-depth information. For example, select the Result Codes node to display a sum of the HTTP result codes for every request in the test. Expanding the Perf Counters node displays the counters that have been collected during the test.

Expand the Page Data node and select the first script item. The right pane displays detailed information regarding this script item. Reports provide the response time for specific pages by determining when the script has finished downloading on the client. This is a good source of performance data.

The Time To First Byte (TTFB) calculates the time from the request for the page until the Web Application Stress Tool receives the first byte of data, in milliseconds. The Time To Last Byte (TTLB) calculates the total time from the request until the last byte of data has been received on the client, in milliseconds. This number includes the TTFB time and any additional time needed to receive the last byte of data. All of the requests are sorted, then the data is divided into percentiles.

While in Report view, you can select Export to CSV from the File menu. Exporting the report values to a format that Microsoft® Excel can read allows you to create charts that show where most of the requests fall.