Test Suites guide

Overview

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for configuration Test Suites in Carrier. Test Suites help to make several simultaneous test runs with different parameters. This can be useful for example for testing under different load or different load generators.

Prerequisites

Before you begin working with Suites, ensure that you have completed the following:

• Installed and set up Carrier successfully.
• Created a project in Carrier.
• Configured Backend and/or UI test.

Note: You can find out how to create project in Carrier in the following guide

Steps

Follow the steps below to know how to use Suites in Carrier:

Step 1: Access the Carrier Web Interface

1. Open a web browser and enter the URL of your Carrier installation.
2. Log in to the Carrier web interface using your credentials.

Note: Make sure you have logged in using the appropriate user account that has all required accesses

Step 2: Select the Project

1. From the project dropdown menu, select the desired project where you want to work with Suites.
2. Click “Go!” to navigate to the project’s configuration page.

Step 3: Navigate to the Suite tab

1. Click on “Performance” in the dropdown.

2. Click on “Suite” tab

Step 4: Add new test Suite

1. Click on plus button on the Suite page.

2. Fill in the following fields, select tests, and press Add Tests button.

   • Suite name.
   • Suite type.
   • Suite enviroment.

Step 5: How to copy test Suite

1. You can copy selected tests by pressing copy buttons in the ACTIONS section.

2. Name your test copy and press Add button.

Step 6: How to config test Suite

1. You can edit the load configuration and test parameters by pressing the button to the left of the test name.

2. In the following example we added test parameter VUSERS and set it to 5. Also don’t forget to click Save button, to save test Suite.

Step 7: Execute test Suite

1. To execute your test Suite click on the triangle button on the Suite page.

2. You could also change your test configuration before test run. If all parameters are correct - just click Run button.

3. The suite execution status will appear in the Reports section.

Step 8: Suite results

1. To open Suite results, just click on the result name.

2. In the opened page, you could open each test result details

3. There are 4 charts below: Avg. throughput, Error rate, Responce time and Page speed. You could select tests for them, backend agregation and UI metric from a top dropdown. Also you could chose between categorical and time variations for graphs and zoom each of them using magnifying glass button.
   Zoomed graph:

4. Next you could see a large graph with metrics from all tests from Suite.

5. At the bottom of the page there are summary tables for backend and UI test results.