{"id":4312,"date":"2013-09-06T15:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2023-06-29T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:20:44","slug":"scheduling-load-tests-with-load-tester-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2013\/09\/scheduling-load-tests-with-load-tester-5-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling Load Tests with Load Tester 5.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our customers want to run tests off-hours to minimize collateral inconveniences. For example, if the rest of your QA team is working on the same test server as you, it might behoove you to run a load test at 2:00 AM when the team is asleep. Load Tester has had the ability to schedule off-hours tests for years, but the feature remains a frequently asked question among potential testers.<\/p>\n<p>In Load Tester 5.4&#8217;s streamlined user interface, you can schedule a test from the &#8216;Control&#8217; menu by choosing &#8220;Schedule Load Test.&#8221; A &#8220;Scheduled Operation&#8221; dialog will appear, and you can choose a time and date (even several days in the future) at which to run the test. Then, just leave the dialog box open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/schedule-a-test.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4313\" alt=\"schedule-a-test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/schedule-a-test.png\" width=\"556\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also possible to <a href=\"\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2011\/02\/new-feature-run-a-load-test-from-the-command-line\/\">schedule a load test from the command line interface<\/a> (&#8220;cli.exe&#8221;) located in the installation directory. Running &#8216;cli.exe execute &#8211;help&#8217; will print information about the command line options needed to run a test from the command line. If you want to use the command line interface to schedule recurring nightly or weekend load tests, consider reviewing the documentation for the <a title=\"Windows Task Scheduler\" href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows7\/schedule-a-task\">Windows Task Scheduler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our customers want to run tests off-hours to minimize collateral inconveniences. For example, if the rest of your QA team is working on the same test server as you, it might behoove you to run a load test at 2:00 AM when the team is asleep. Load Tester has had the ability to schedule off-hours tests for years, but the feature remains a frequently asked question among potential testers.<br \/>\nIn Load Tester 5.4&#8217;s streamlined user interface, you can schedule a test from the &#8216;Control&#8217; menu by choosing &#8220;Schedule Load Test.&#8221; A &#8220;Scheduled Operation&#8221; dialog will appear, and you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2013\/09\/scheduling-load-tests-with-load-tester-5-4\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,42],"tags":[174,237,183,184,182,30],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-load-testing","category-load-tester-software","tag-how-to","tag-load-testing","tag-off-hours","tag-regression-testing","tag-schedule","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}