Month: August 2012

When I launched LoadRunner to continue my investigations of the new version this morning, I was prompted with an automatic upgrade dialogue box. I’m really pleased that HP has decided to continue with automatic updates for LoadRunner which I first observed with LoadRunner 11.0 (Patch 4).

The update for LoadRunner 11.5 took about 7 minutes after the initial download of the update patch and took my version number from 11.50.2216.0 to 11.50.2552.0.

A couple of days ago, I read Scott Moore’s interesting article about using multipliers to increment LoadRunner date/time variables by multiples of more than one day.

This made me look at my own date/time sample script, mentioned in an earlier post, and incorporate Scott’s suggestions in there. I added some sample code to check to see what day it was and calculate the number of days until next Monday.

Click the icon below to download the script containing this code together with other examples of date/time manipulation in LoadRunner.

DateTimeSamples

 

For those of you who like to see “code” in posts, here is the “Next Monday” code in full…

//What date is next Monday?
lr_save_datetime(“%A”, DATE_NOW, “Today”);

if (strcmp (lr_eval_string(“{Today}”),”Monday”)==0)
{
lr_save_datetime(“%d/%m/%y”, DATE_NOW+(ONE_DAY*7), “DDMMYY”);
lr_output_message(“Today is Monday, next Monday’s Date is %s”,lr_eval_string(“{DDMMYY}”));
}
if (strcmp (lr_eval_string(“{Today}”),”Tuesday”)==0)
{
lr_save_datetime(“%d/%m/%y”, DATE_NOW+(ONE_DAY*6), “DDMMYY”);
lr_output_message(“Today is Tuesday, next Monday’s Date is %s”,lr_eval_string(“{DDMMYY}”));
}
if (strcmp (lr_eval_string(“{Today}”),”Wednesday”)==0)
{
lr_save_datetime(“%d/%m/%y”, DATE_NOW+(ONE_DAY*5), “DDMMYY”);
lr_output_message(“Today is Wednesday, next Monday’s Date is %s”,lr_eval_string(“{DDMMYY}”));
}
if (strcmp (lr_eval_string(“{Today}”),”Thursday”)==0)
{
lr_save_datetime(“%d/%m/%y”, DATE_NOW+(ONE_DAY*4), “DDMMYY”);
lr_output_message(“Today is Thursday, next Monday’s Date is %s”,lr_eval_string(“{DDMMYY}”));
}
if (strcmp (lr_eval_string(“{Today}”),”Friday”)==0)
{
lr_save_datetime(“%d/%m/%y”, DATE_NOW+(ONE_DAY*3), “DDMMYY”);
lr_output_message(“Today is Friday, next Monday’s Date is %s”,lr_eval_string(“{DDMMYY}”));
}
if (strcmp (lr_eval_string(“{Today}”),”Saturday”)==0)
{
lr_save_datetime(“%d/%m/%y”, DATE_NOW+(ONE_DAY*2), “DDMMYY”);
lr_output_message(“Today is Saturday, next Monday’s Date is %s”,lr_eval_string(“{DDMMYY}”));
}
if (strcmp (lr_eval_string(“{Today}”),”Sunday”)==0)
{
lr_save_datetime(“%d/%m/%y”, DATE_NOW+(ONE_DAY*1), “DDMMYY”);
lr_output_message(“Today is Sunday, next Monday’s Date is %s”,lr_eval_string(“{DDMMYY}”));
}