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QALoad has the following minimum system requirements:
User Locale affects how some programs format and display numbers, currencies, dates and time. QALoad only supports native operating systems locales. Switching your User Locale to something other than that of the native OS may result in improper functioning of QALoad components.
(*See the Technical Notes section for more information about using Windows Vista and IE 7.0.)
The system requirements for each individual QALoad component follow:
Visual
Studio .NET 2003 (7.1), Visual Studio .NET 2005 (8.0), or Visual Studio
.NET 2008 (9.0) for script compilation and script validation.
Note: See the Technical Notes section
for more information about compiler compatibility.
cdo.dll
must be installed on the machine to use the send utility. CDO is an optional
messaging component of Microsoft Outlook. When you view the options for
Office or Outlook setup, CDO is listed under the options for Outlook.
Note: If you are using Microsoft Office 2007, you must download cdo.dll from the Microsoft website.
Java 2 Runtime Environment 1.4, 1.5, or 1.6 (version 1.5 is provided on the installation media) for running Java scripts.
Mid-level Pentium 4 PC with 1GB of RAM.
The QALoad Player and associated utilities are supported on AIX, Linux, and Solaris. Compilers that are 32-bit compatible are required. The system requirements for each operating system follow:
AIX 5L Version 5.2 or 5.3
100 MB minimum available disk space
ANSI C compiler for compiling scripts. Compuware requires IBM’s VisualAge C and C++ compilers, version 6.0 (patched to level 6.0.0.14). Compuware also supports GNU GCC & G++ compilers version 3.4.4.
Note: The VisualAge compilers must be patched to the level indicated by the “September 2005 VisualAge C++ Professional V6.0 for AIX PTF”. For more information, refer to the IBM website.
Java 2 Runtime Environment 1.4, 1.5, or 1.6 for playing back Java scripts. (Java 2 Runtime Environment 1.5 is provided on the installation media)
TCP/IP communications
Appropriate client application environment
Compuware requires the Linux system-provided GNU GCC & G++ version 3.4.5 compilers
Note: For Version 3 only, the system should be updated to the packages indicated in the Red Hat Advisory: RHBA-2005:661-11. Additional packages required to resolve dependencies also should be applied.
ANSI C compiler for compiling scripts. Compuware requires Sun Studio 11. Compuware also supports GNU GCC & G++ compilers version 3.4.4.
In addition, your Windows system may need to meet specific requirements to support the middleware you will be testing. The Winsock and NetLoad middlewares do not have any additional QALoad Windows Player requirements.
QALoad supports load testing of ODBC environments when the following requirements are met:
QALoad supports load testing under Uniface when the following requirements are met:
QALoad supports load testing under Citrix when the following requirements are met:
Citrix Web Interface 4.2, 4.5.1*, or 4.6*
JavaScript set to Limited or None when using Citrix Web Interface 4.6
(*When running Citrix ICA client 10 against the Web Interface 4.5.1 or 4.6, the server should be set to have a preference for embedded ICA files. It may be necessary to change WebInterface.conf on the server from "LaunchClients=ICA-Local,ICA-Embedded" to LaunchClients=ICA-Embedded,ICA-Local".)
QALoad supports load testing under .NET when the following requirements are met:
Visual Studio 2005 with Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 Service Pack 1
QALoad supports load testing under TestPartner 6.1
Supports QALoad Windows Player only.
QALoad supports load testing under SAP when the following requirements are met:
Supports QALoad Windows Player only.
(Note: See the Technical Notes section for information about using Windows Vista.)
QALoad supports load testing under Oracle Forms Server when the following requirements are met:
Java 2 Runtime Environment 1.5 (provided on the installation media).
Note: Compuware recommends you use the Java HotSpot Client VM.
QALoad supports load testing of J2EE components when the following requirements are met:
QALoad supports load testing of WWW environments when the following requirements are met:
QALoad supports Streaming Media under WWW when the following requirements are met:
RealOne Player Version 10.x or Windows Media Player 9.00.xx.
Note: Windows Media Player is not currently supported on Windows Vista.
QALoad supports integration with ApplicationVantage version 10.0 SP2 and 10.1.
Integration with ApplicationVantage is supported on the Windows platform only.
You must install the ApplicationVantage agent that is packaged with the QALoad software. The agent must be installed on the same Windows machine as the QALoad Player.
(Note: See the Technical Notes section for information about using Windows Vista.)
QALoad supports integration with ServerVantage (SVI Monitoring) version 10.0 and 10.1.
QALoad supports integration with ServerVantage (Remote Monitoring) version 10.1 Service Pack 1.5 only.
For Performance Monitoring of Application Servers for JVM, OAS, SAP, WebLogic, WebSphere, WebSphere MQ, and WMI, you must install the ServerVantage agent that is packaged with the QALoad software. The agent should be installed on a non-production machine that does not currently have a ServerVantage agent installed.
QALoad supports integration with ClientVantage. QALoad is packaged with the current version of ClientVantage at time of release.
QALoad supports integration with Vantage Analyzer 10.1 Service Pack 1.
The following environments and middlewares are not supported in QALoad release 05.07:
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 compiler
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 (7.0) compiler
ADO
Oracle 2-tier
QARun
Multi-port player execution
Server Analysis Agent
Conversion of WWW scripts into C code (QALoad will only create Visual Navigator assets).
Solaris 7
Solaris 8
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
Record/replay functionality of Conductor test session
Note: The QALoad AIX Player, EasyScript for UNIFACE and NetLoad will be retired in a subsequent release. Active users of these technologies should contact Compuware Customer Support to discuss options.
The following commands are no longer supported in QALoad Release 5.07:
Citrix Functions
CtxConnect
CtxSetICAFile
CtxSetApplication
CtxSetLoginInfo
CtxPing
CtxSetPingTimeout
OFS Functions
OracleAppsLogin( )
ofsHTTPSDoSSLHandshake
QALoad now provides the ability to record and playback against web-based applications that are deployed on Microsoft IIS using MS Active Directory 2003, and that use Kerberos authentication to determine eligibility for access. QALoad's current implementation of NTLM/Negotiate, which uses Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI), has been enhanced to support the Kerberos authentication type.
QALoad now provides a .NET session that allows for custom code to be inserted into a script. The script can then be compiled and executed using the Conductor. When a .NET session is selected in Workbench, Visual Studio is started, which allows you to create, load, edit, compile, and validate a C# script. A new .NET middleware in Conductor enables you to add a previously compiled .NET script to a load test. A new .NET Player creates an instance of the Microsoft .NET 2.0 CLR, which is used to load and execute the C# scripts as separate Virtual Users.
QALoad now provides the ability to execute existing functional scripts created with TestPartner 6.1. This functionality is consistent with earlier support of QARun. A new middleware is added to the Script Development Workbench so that you can identify the TestPartner script you want to execute by entering the username, password, DSN, TestPartner project name, and TestPartner script name. There is no capture and convert process for TestPartner scripts.
QALoad now provides the ability to capture Citrix sessions and validate Citrix scripts using the full desktop of the workstation. For example, on a workstation with video resolution of 1024 x 768, it is now possible to record a Citrix session at the same resolution. Previously, Citrix record and script validation were limited to video resolution less than that of the workstation. To utilize full-screen capture, select the desired resolution in the Citrix Record Options dialog, up to a maximum of 1280 x 1024.
The QALoad Conductor has been redesigned to simplify the process of setting up a load test. The tabbed interface has been replaced with a new graphical interface, the Visual Designer, which presents sessions and their associated scripts as a collection of icons in a tree-like structure. The top-level node represents the current test session, with each child node underneath the session representing the scripts in the session. You can assign player machines by dragging a player or player group from the Visual Designer's Players/Groups window into the script node. You can assign session, script, and player properties using the Visual Designer's Properties window.
You also can setup your test in the Grid View, using the fields in the Script Assignment tab and the Machine Assignment tab. The Grid View is a dockable window that displays at the bottom of the Visual Designer window. The Grid View and the Visual Designer are always in synch, any information you enter in one is immediately reflected in the other.
In addition to the new graphical interface, the Conductor now opens with a new start page that helps you quickly create or modify a load test session, and a new Test Configuration Wizard. The new wizard guides you through the process of creating a load test that you can run immediately.
In this release, QALoad introduces integration with Vantage Analyzer (VA) that enables accessing Vantage Analyzer metrics that can be viewed in QALoad Analyze. To facilitate this, a new monitoring type has been added to QALoad Conductor Monitoring Wizard to gather remote server information, such as server name or IP, user name, and password. The Conductor uses this information to connect to and retrieve remote server machine time to aid in the synchronization between the Conductor and the remote server machine. You then can use QALoad Analyze to access the metrics that correlate to a specified performance testing time slice.
QALoad now supports WebSphere servers deployed as nodes. To implement WebSphere managed server support, steps have been added to the monitor task creation wizard, so you can choose the servers to be monitored and process each of the servers for counter discovery. The new steps are invoked only when a managed server environment is detected with the information returned by the administrative server. The template configuration wizard also is modified to work in a managed server environment. New steps in the wizard enable you to select which model server you want to use to create the template.
QALoad now fully supports WebLogic servers deployed as admin servers and non-admin servers by remote notification. To implement WebLogic managed server support, steps have been added to the monitor task creation wizard, so you can choose the servers to be monitored and process each of the servers for counter discovery. The new steps are invoked only when a managed server environment is detected with the information returned by the administrative server. The template configuration wizard also is modified to work in a managed server environment. New steps in the wizard enable you to select which model server you want to use to create the template.
QALoad also has added the ability to retrieve metrics from WebLogic version 9. The New Monitor Task wizard has been modified to include WebLogic 9 in its selection. WebLogic 9 introduces new counters, necessitating an additional set of WebLogic templates specific to version 9.
QALoad has added the ability to retrieve metrics from WebSphere version 6 and 6.1. The New Monitor Task wizard has been modified to include WAS 6X in its selection.
QALoad now provides the means for introducing additional SNMP counters that are not already defined in QALoad. The existing New Monitoring Task wizard and New Monitoring Template wizard have been modified so that default values can be overridden. New fields for Port Number, Community, and Supplemental Object Identifier (OID) files are provided. The OID files contain the numbers assigned to devices in a network for identification purposes. QALoad searches a hard-coded list of OIDs when discovering counters. The supplemental OID files enable you to import external files with additional OIDs to search during the counter discovery phase.
QALoad now provides a method for quickly creating MS Word documents and reports that will help consolidate the statistics and information provided by QALoad. The Analyze menu is extended to include a report generation menu item for each open timing file. The automated reports include the following:
Customizable cover page and Standard Table of Contents
Executive Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendation sections for users to provide customer specific details of their testing
Scenario Details section, including total test duration, scripts executed, total virtual users, and detailed test description
Default graphs, such as Response Time Analysis and Concurrent Virtual Users
QALoad Analyze now includes a graph that plots virtual users (VU) executing a specific transaction or checkpoint on the X axis against their response time on the Y axis. This new graph type, called the Virtual User Distribution graph, is presented when a single checkpoint is selected from the tree view under the Checkpoints tab.
Note the following considerations with Microsoft Windows Vista:
The use of ServerVantage Agent in Admin mode or ApplicationVantage Agent on the Microsoft Vista platform is not currently supported. To use these integrations, you must be running Conductor on Windows 2000, XP, or Windows Server 2003.
When you install the ApplicationVantage Agent on Microsoft Windows Vista, the following Windows security dialog box appears during file transfer: “Would you like to install this device software?” Click Install.
For SAP middleware replay on Windows Vista, SAP GUI 7.10 patch level 6 or later is required.
Currently, Oracle Forms does not support Windows Vista.
Windows Media Player is not currently supported on Windows Vista .
If you are using QALoad on Microsoft Windows Vista, you must make the following configurations for proper operations of capturing in Winsock, performance monitoring, and Remote Monitoring for SNMP and Windows Registry:
When using the Winsock middleware with Internet Explorer 7.0 on Vista, the Enable Protected Mode setting must be disabled. This option is managed in IE7's Internet Options on the Security tab.
When using the WWW middleware with Internet Explorer 7.0 on Vista, the Enable Protected Mode setting must be disabled. This option is managed in IE7's Internet Options on the Security tab.
When using any monitoring capabilities, the logged in user must be a member of the Performance Monitoring Group.
When using SNMP monitoring, you must enable the following options:
Enable SNMP feature.
Enable the SNMP service.
Specify an appropriate community.
Assign access rights to SNMP.
Enable access to SNMP through the firewall.
To enable Windows Registry remote monitoring, you must start the Remote Registry service (defaults to manual startup in Vista).
When you install QALoad on a Windows XP machine with Service Pack 2 applied, the Windows Firewall is automatically configured to include the QALoad Player agent as an allowed exception. This configuration is required for communication between the Conductor and Player machines during a load test.
If you are migrating from a previous version of QALoad, you must re-compile your existing scripts in the Script Development Workbench to use them in this release.
When using QALoad, do not use the "Switch User" Windows feature. Using this feature allows multiple user sessions to be active simultaneously, which can cause problems with script playback. If you need to use a different Windows profile, log off Windows and log on as a different user.
certdb.txt for OFS recordingFor the SSL support provided in this release, QALoad modifies
the client machine's JInitiator certdb.txt file to include
QALoad's CA certificate during the initial SSL recording process
for an Oracle Forms Server application. This certificate authority information
is internally validated by Oracle during the OFS-SSL session. If you want
to remove the QALoad CA certificate, delete the following text
from the certdb.txt file:
#qaload
-----BEGIN
CERTIFICATE-----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-----END
CERTIFICATE-----
#qaload
To use the SAP or Citrix middlewares, you must ensure that the VC++ MFC and Template Libraries option is selected when you install Visual C++. This option installs the headers, libraries, sources, and browser database for MFC and ATL, which are required for both the SAP and Citrix middlewares.
To prevent performance issues, Compuware recommends that you increase your system paging file size to a fixed size of:
Compuware recommends that you turn off the IE 7 Anti-Phishing Filter to avoid inaccurate test results.
If you are using IE 7 to capture a secure site, you may be prompted with a browser window that indicates there is a problem with the website's security certificate. To prevent the security alerts from appearing in the future and make QALoad a trusted source, follow the steps below to import a QALoad Certificate Authority into IE:
IE 7 introduced methods for gathering additional information for ActiveX controls which are missing details and lack fully defined codepaths. IE now queries Microsoft's own ActiveX repository to look for additional detail as well as other sites based on information gathered from the control.
You should decide if these additional requests are desirable for your testing scenario in QALoad and create traffic filters to reflect your preferences. You may find your test results are more consistent if you add http://active.microsoft.com/ to the Blocked Traffic filter.
In order to successfully test Siebel with Internet Explorer 7.0, you must modify the following settings:
For all Windows Environments:
For Windows Vista only:
In addition to the steps above, you must disable the Enable Protection Mode setting for Internet, Local intranet, Trusted sites, and Restricted sites.
In the IE browser window, go to the Tools menu, and select Internet Options>Security.
Under Select a zone to view or change security settings, select Internet.
Under Security Level for this zone, ensure that the Enable Protected Mode is not selected.
Repeat for Local Intranet, Trusted sites, and Restricted sites.
Click OK.
QALoad JavaScript support requires that all form elements (for example, buttons and text fields) must be inside of HTML forms in order to execute associated JavaScript. JavaScript that depends on time or date information may require the user to parameterize the script. QALoad's windowless replay does not support certain specific JavaScript functions listed below.
setTimeout
clearInterval
clearTimeout
setInterval
showHelp
showModalDialog
showModelessDialog
As of QALoad 5.5.1, modified Citrix scripts should not have waitpoints placed directly after BEGIN_TRANSACTION markers. For best use of system resources, Compuware recommends that you place DO_SetTransactionCleanup before the END_TRANSACTION marker.
When setting up remote monitoring to capture and report ServerVantage data, you can now configure the port used for the SQL Server database. The Configure Monitor Dialog in the New Monitoring Task wizard, now includes a field for Database Server Port, so that you can override the default SQL port, 1433.
This section describes known issues related to the current release of QALoad.
A known issue exists with the Microsoft Operating System that may cause new programs to appear behind other already open programs. When you start a program from another program, the new program window may appear behind all other open windows. Additionally, the new-window icon flashes on the taskbar. This symptom occurs on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer or on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer. Microsoft has documented a procedure that details how users can modify the value of the ForegroundLockTimeout registry entry in Registry Editor to correct the issue. For specific instructions and more information on this issue, please refer to the following article located at the Microsoft Help and Support website for details: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;886217
If you have uninstalled all previous versions of QALoad but the installation process indicates that a previous version of the product is still installed, you may need to remove a registry key. In the Windows Registry Editor, delete the following registry key if it exists on your system:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{90C9114B-ED44-4AB9-B32F-1B9EA363FBEF}
When you are installing or re-installing QALoad, you may be required to reboot your system before installation proceeds. You will be prompted with the following message :
"Setup has detected a pending system reboot from a previous install. A system reboot is required to continue with the installation.
To reboot the machine and continue with the installation, click ‘Yes’. To abort the installation, click ‘No’."
If you are unable to install QALoad because of recurring requests to reboot your system, you should do the following:
In the Windows Registry Editor, go to the registry location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
Delete the data in the string PendingFileRenameOperations.
Caution: Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.
When you migrate to the 5.7 release of QALoad and the DLM/LAU is upgraded, you must reconfigure the QALoad license. This is necessary when the license is used only by QALoad. If the license is shared with other Compuware products, reconfiguration is not required.
If you are running McAfee's VirusScan 8.0 with the "Buffer Overflow Protection" option enabled, Internet Explorer may fail to launch when you start a Winsock recording or when you record OFS socket mode. To prevent this issue, disable the "Buffer Overflow Protection" feature within McAfee VirusScan.
If you are running your application on Windows XP SP2, Compuware recommends you turn off the 'pop-up blocker' feature before recording a transaction. The feature can be disabled using the browser window's Tools menu in Internet Options>Privacy.
The Send utility in Analyze does not always work properly with Outlook 2003. If you experience problems when clicking the Send button in the email that is generated by the utility, you can use the utility to create a .zip file of the results and manually attach that file to an email you create directly in Outlook.
Timing file names containing multi-byte characters do not display the file name correctly in Analyze tabs. The multi-byte characters are removed from the name and, if containing all multi-byte characters, the tab reads “TimingFile.tim”. Annotation Objects for Graphs do not support MBCS either, so some characters may be displayed incorrectly in annotation object text for languages utilizing MBCS.
If you are using the QALoad Conductor on a machine that has Microsoft Office 2000 or XP installed, when launching Conductor, you may be prompted repeatedly to insert a Microsoft Office installation CD. This problem is a known issue with Microsoft Office. It occurs during use with an account that is different from the account used during the Office installation when none of the Office components were launched since installation. To avoid receiving the prompts, launch any Microsoft Office component under the user account that was used during installation, and close it. For more information about this Microsoft Office issue, refer to the Microsoft knowledge base article Q298385.
In order to properly record monitoring tasks for Windows Registry and WMI monitoring types, you must have installed the following:
For Windows Vista - You must install Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 on the client machine.
All other supported operating systems - You must install Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 SP1 on the client machine.
Note: Although service packs are not typically required for target machines, Microsoft recommends that these service packs be installed on both source and target machines.
When running HTTP and HTML scripts together in thread mode, you may receive the error message:
WWW_ABORT_00009 - Script was converted in HTTP/HTML mode. Replay mode does not match the convert mode.
To avoid receiving this error, set the number of Virtual Users per process to the lowest number of VUs specified for all the scripts in the session.
There is a network/configuration issue with Citrix client v. 10.150 that can cause an intermittent Protocol Driver Error. This error has been reported when attempting to connect to Citrix Web Interface (CWI) applications or when validating CWI scripts in QALoad. To avoid this, either turn off the "Use automatic configuration script" option in Internet Explorer LAN Settings, or un-install client version 10.150 and upgrade to client version 10.2. If the problem continues, Compuware recommends that you contact Citrix.
When you select Repair for ServerVantage in the Add/Remove Programs utility, you must stop the ServerVantage Agent and disable the service.
User Locale affects how some programs format and display numbers, currencies, dates and time. QALoad only supports native operating systems locales. Switching your User Locale to something other than that of the native OS may result in improper functioning of QALoad components.
When opening a .NET session in the Workbench, an error message stating the addin failed to install appears. To avoid this message, launch Visual Studio once outside of QALoad and configure it for C# scripts when prompted.
QALoad supports load testing of Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Web applications that use Double Byte Character Sets (DBCS). Viewing timing files and Summary reports with International versions of Microsoft Windows is only possible if the timing file is viewed on the same Windows language platform on which the timing file was created.
A file descriptor limit exists on the Solaris platform if a script is running in threaded mode, logfile generation is turned on, and there are more than 250 virtual users. To avoid this limitation, modify the Logfile Generation parameters so that logfiles are not generated by all virtual users:
The Visual Navigator's Find/Replace functionality may not find and replace XML tree items.
The Checkpoint view may be blank when applying an existing saved template.
Invalid characters in the Conductor Runtime Graphs on Japanese Operating System If you are running a Japanese Operating System, you may see invalid characters in the file names in the drop-down list on the Series tab of the Conductor Runtime Graph. There is no known resolution at this time. The improper interpretation of the characters involves a third-party tool that the software uses to display this information. Check FrontLine for future updates to resolve this issue.
There are limitations to the size of a Central Datapool that the QALoad Conductor can handle when starting a test. When attempting to use a Central Datapool file that is approximately 20MB or greater, the QALoad Conductor may fail to start. To avoid this problem, create a smaller Central Datapool file, or use a local Datapool for the test instead.
HTTP scripts fail to compile on AIX systems using GCC as the compiler after the QALoad SSL module is installed. You must manually install a different library for your scripts to compile properly.
When installing the SSL module, EasyScript for Secure WWW, on AIX using the package installation method, you must perform the following steps after the installation is complete:
Login to the AIX system as 'root'.
cd to /opt/QALoad/lib
Enter the following commands:
mv libqlHTTP.a orig.libqlHTTP.a
ln -s ./libqlHTTP128.a libqlHTTP.a
mv libg++qlHTTP.a orig.libg++qlHTTP.a
ln -s ./libg++qlHTTP128.a libg++qlHTTP.a
In Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Server environments, if you experience problems with your applications crashing while capturing, perform the following steps:
Right-click on My Computer and select Properties.
Click the Advanced tab and select Settings in the Performance field.
Click the Data Execution Prevention tab. By default, it is set to guard system processes. To stop your application from crashing, click the second radio button Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select:
Add the link to your program's executable file (.exe) to the list of programs that are allowed.
Restart your machine.
QALoad may not capture WWW content correctly, or WebProxy may intermittently fail while capturing on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer. For example, you may receive the following Application Error while capturing WWW with Microsoft Internet Explorer, "The instruction at 0xzc8224b2 referenced memory at 0x00000001. The memory could not be read."
This can occur when the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration component is enabled, which is the default state in Internet Explorer on Windows Server 2003-based computers. This can prevent certain Web sites from displaying as expected in Internet Explorer. Programs that require the browser also may not work as expected because scripts, ActiveX controls, and download capabilities are disabled.
To avoid this behavior, use the following steps to remove the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration components in Windows Server 2003:
Click Start, then select Control Panel.
Double click Add or Remove Programs.
On the left side of the screen, select Add/Remove Windows Components.
In the Components list, clear the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration check box, then click Next.
Click Finish.
The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration component configures security settings that define how you browse the Internet and your corporate intranet, and helps reduce exposure of your server to Web sites that could pose a security risk. For more information about this component, refer to Enhanced Security Configuration>Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration in the Internet Explorer help on your Windows Server 2003-based computer.
In the Visual Navigator, when you click a Page Node that has JavaScript content that causes the same page to reopen recursively, the QALoad Workbench may disappear. This also occurs when you open the same Web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The C++ script that is generated compiles and executes properly, but no modifications can be made on the page in Visual Navigator. To make modifications to the C++ script, use the following steps:
In the Workbench menu bar, select Visual Navigator>Create Editable Script File...
In the Save As dialog box, type a name for the script file, then click Save.
Edit the C++ script file.
When upgrading to a newer version of QALoad, using the "Run as Administrator" feature in Windows XP and Windows Vista may cause the upgrade to fail. Use one of the following options to perform the upgrade:
Manually stop the Player agent by right-clicking the tray icon and selecting Stop Player Agent.
OR
Login to Windows using an account with Administrative rights.
OR
Uninstall your current version of QALoad before installing the new version.
Compuware Customer Support can assist you with all issues, from installation to troubleshooting.
Prior to contacting customer support, gather the following information:
800.538.7822
Refer to Compuware's FrontLine support web site for fast access to critical information about your product. You can read and print documentation, download product fixes, review frequently asked questions, or directly e-mail Compuware with questions or comments. The first time you access FrontLine, you are required to register and obtain a password.
Refer to Compuware's corporate web site at http://www.compuware.com/ for information about Compuware customer support policies and problem resolution process.
Customer Support
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