Find Out How

Any HTTP or HTTPS recording may be used to create a clip. To convert a recording to a clip, open the recording on the SOASTA CloudTest Repository page and follow these steps:

1. The Recording page will display the HTTP or HTTPS traffic.

2. Click on “Convert to a Clip” in the upper right hand corner of the page. This will cause the “Create a Clip From Recording Wizard” to display.

3. The first page of the wizard allows you to name the clip, select its timing and decide how much of the recording you wish to convert. The timing choices are:
1. Sequenced. Messages are sent in sequence. Message 2 is sent as soon as Message 1 receives a response, and so forth.
2. Manually Timed. Messages are sent at their specified times (or as close to the specified time as possible). For generated clips, the message timing will be determined from the recorded messages.
3. Evenly timed. Messages are sent at a specified interval (default is one message per second).

Note: The default is set to the first 99 messages by default. If you wish to convert all of the messages in the clip, you will need to change this setting. Click “Next” to continue.

4. The second screen deals with bursts and think times. Think times apply to Sequenced and Manually timed clips. If you wish to apply think times, click on the checkbox labeled “Insert think times” and set the threshold values. Pauses will automatically be inserted into the generated clip according to these settings to simulate user think times.

5. Bursts are available for Manually Timed clips only. Bursts are on by default. You may uncheck the checkbox labeled “Detect and insert bursts” if you wish to disable bursting. If you wish to include bursts, you can change the bursting thresholds. Messages within the threshold are sent as a burst. Messages in a burst are sent as close to simultaneously as possible during execution. Click “Next” to continue.

6. The next screen allows you to select targets for the generated clip. Any existing target that appears to apply to the prospective clip is included in the “Selected Targets” list on the right. All available targets are available on the left hand side. If you believe a target should be included, select the target from the left hand side and click on the arrow.

7. A message generated with no applicable target will cause a new target to be generated automatically. You can override this behavior by un-checking the box labeled “Automatically create missing targets”. Click “Next” to continue.

8. You will next be presented with a screen labeled “Create Clip”. If the selections on this screen are correct, click on “Next” to continue. Otherwise, click on “Back” to correct your settings.

9. Your clip will then be created. When clip generation is complete, you will be presented with a Summary screen. You may continue to the composition editor to play the clip, continue to the clip editor to do additional editing or simply click on “Finish” to exit the process.