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The View Results dialog box

Screenshot: View Results dialog box.

The View Results dialog box lets you tailor your results workbooks. You can specify which tables you want to view and where you want WebBench to look for the information it uses to create the server disclosure and client disclosure tables in the results workbooks.

This is also the dialog box you must be at if you want to edit the Captured disclosure (i.e., the .DLG files), create or edit configuration setups for the server and/or the clients, and create or edit configuration database files.

You can also easily tell which test suite you ran for which set of results. Just highlight the name of the results file in the Results Name list. WebBench displays the name of the test suite associated with that results file and any comments you entered when you ran that test suite in the Test Suite box and the Comments box,

Each option you select in this dialog box applies to all the results files listed under Results Name.

Here’s an explanation of what you can do at this dialog box:

  • Add more results files to your current list of files. When you choose the Add button, WebBench displays the Select Results dialog box.

  • Remove one of the currently selected results files. If you decide you don’t want to view all the results files you’ve chosen, you can use the Remove button to take the files you don’t want out of the list.

  • Server Configuration specifies the configuration setup you want WebBench to use as the basis for the Server Disclosure table in the WebBench results workbook. This is a drop-down list of all the server configurations available. If you choose the Edit button, WebBench displays the Server Disclosure Form. You can then edit the current configuration information.

  • Client Configuration specifies the configuration setup you want WebBench to use as the basis for the Client Disclosure table in the WebBench results workbook. This is a drop-down list of all the server configurations available. If you choose the Edit button, WebBench displays the Client Disclosure Form. You can then edit the current configuration information.

  • Database displays the currently selected configuration database file. You can use the Browse button to choose a different database file or create a new database file.

You can also tell WebBench how to set up your results workbooks. You can choose:

  • Which workbook options you want. Under Workbook Options, WebBench lets you specify:
  1. Save Workbook with results name. When checked, this option tells WebBench to automatically save each set of results to an Excel workbook that has the same name as the results file. For example, if your results are called STATIC_11.TLG, Excel would save them to a workbook called STATIC_11.XLS.

  2. Delete Log files. When you check this option, then, once WebBench has generated the results spreadsheets you selected, it will delete the log files that contained the results information. So, if you don’t save the spreadsheet using Excel (or didn’t tell WebBench to automatically save the spreadsheet), you won’t be able to view those results again. In addition, if you didn’t tell WebBench to create all the results tables for that set of results, you won’t be able to generate them later.

  3. Load webbench.xla Add-in. When you check this option, WebBench automatically loads its WEBBENCH.XLA Add-In module for Excel and adds a WebBench menu item to the Excel menu bar. This module lets you create requests per second and throughput summary graphs. It also enables you to easily print the graphs or tables from within the WebBench workbooks without printing other forms of data.

Tip:
While you can permanently install the WEBBENCH.XLA module through Excel itself, we recommend that you install this module from the View Results window. This way, it won’t affect your daily Excel work. If you install the module permanently in Excel, you’ll notice that your Excel start-up time is slower even when you’re not generating WebBench results.
  • Which results tables you want to view. When you check the category, WebBench displays those tables when it creates the results workbooks. Your options here are:

Overall Results
Table 1: WebBench Summary
Table 2: Overall Data
T
able 3: Overall Class Statistics
(With Table 1, WebBench also displays the Test information box and the requests per second and throughput graphs of your server’s results.)

Client Results
Table 4: Client Data

Disclosure
Table 5: Server Disclosure
Table 6: Client Disclosure

Test Suite Description
Table 7: Test Suite Information
Table 8: Client Workload File Descriptions

If an error occurred during the test suite, WebBench will also display Table 9: Error Information in the results workbook.

Once you have all the results files you want to view and have set the database and workbook options, click on View and WebBench will display your results.

NOTE: If you have a Excel session currently running, WebBench will use that session of Excel to display the results workbooks. Otherwise, it will start a session of Excel.

Getting to this dialog box

To get to this dialog box, choose View Results in the main WebBench window. Next, choose the results files you want to view from the Select Results dialog box and click on Open. WebBench now displays this dialog box.

To get to this dialog box, choose View Results in the main WebBench window. Next, choose the results files you results files you results a
 

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