The table below shows the difference between measurement of IE scenarios and measurement of Web transactions.
Table J-1 Difference Between Measurement of IE Scenarios and Measurement of Web Transactions
Item | IE scenarios | Web transactions |
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Measurable response performance | If you use IE scenarios, you can measure the elapsed time between the time you perform operations in the Internet Explorer and the time these operations are completed as the response performance. You can monitor the approximate response performance to the ones users feel when operating in the Internet Explorer. | If you use the Web transactions, you can measure the amount of the time it takes to communicate with the Internet services (HTTP(S), DNS, or the like) as the response performance. |
Password management | The passwords are managed in the IE scenario files. | The passwords are not managed in the Web transaction files but in the password file. |
Scope definitions | The scope of the IE scenarios is a series of operations in the Internet Explorer. | The scope of the Web transactions is a series of skips (a skip is a unit of the HTTP request and its HTTP response). |
Response determination | You can define a condition or a combination of two conditions as a response determination condition. | You can define a condition or a combination of two or more conditions as a response determination condition. |
Acquisition of embedded resources | Internet Explorer acquires the embedded resource automatically. | You must define in the transaction files whether or not the embedded resources are acquired. |
Support for dynamic session management | Internet Explorer processes automatically. | You must analyse the dynamically changing information and define necessary information to process dynamic session. |
Specification of the character set | Internet Explorer processes automatically. | You must define the character set in the Web transaction files. |