LoadTesting ClickOnce Application with Load Runner 11.5

Question

We're supposed to carryout Performance Testing on a 64 bit standalone desktop application on 64 bit OS built around .Net 4.0 and HTML5 with WPF & WCF(it's a ClickOnce Application)..

While using LoadRunner 11.5 for recording, application is NOT launching in the foreground but in the background, the respective process is running in Task Manager.

We've Googled and found out that a ClickOnce Application cannot be recorded using the general installation path(E:\xxx\xxxx\xxxx.exe)

Possible workaround might be going forward with the .exe file in the Deployment Folder. But we're still unable to launch the application using VUGEN via the exe file in the DeploymentFolder path: "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\obscure_dir_name1\obscure_dir_name1\ "

Please find the links below for further info on ClickOnce-VUGEN problem.

Recording ClickOnce Application in VUGEN

MSDN Forums on ClickOnce Application

Answer 1

What is the application (or presentation) layer protocol communication mechanism for this application? (see OSI model definitions for clarity on application of presentation layer protocols)

You will already have an issue regarding a 64 bit application for recording as vugen is a 32 bit application and hooking is not going to effectively cross the WOW32 subsystem barrier for the 32 bit control of a 64 bit application. See release notes regarding the recording of 64 bit applications