Thanks for the reply, Gary, but I'm afraid it isn't any clearer.
I'm not sure what you mean by specifying the End Event of the transaction. I added both the Start Transaction and the End Transaction around the Login step. Is there something else I should be doing?
Based on which protocol I use, the number of logins per minute is different by a factor of five. For 50 VUsers, the Web - HTTP/HTML protocol shows 500 Passed/minute, but for TruClient IE I only get 100 Passed per minute. This makes it incredibly difficult to calculate the number of users I need to reach the expected load, which for this application is 15,000 logins per hour. With the Web - HTTP/HTML protocol, I'm already at two times the full expected load with 50 VUsers, but with the TruClient test, I'm at just over a third of the expected load with 50 VUsers.
How do I reconcile that the transaction times are so far off from each other? Have all of my previous Web - HTTP/HTML tests been that far off? That would be really unsettling to me, because I've signed off on applications based on data that may be off by a factor of five, if what you're saying about TruClient being much closer to an actual user is correct.
Thanks,
Matt
