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what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

Wait is a static command which tell the tool to wait for a specified time, before which tool will not proceed further.Whereas think time may be aborted before, if application process complete and tool start next execution.
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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

why do we need to gather navigation times
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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

because the application some time is dependent on the think time typically web .

it also help getting the different response time ..
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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

Wait time may be defined as the time for which the user has to wait before he gets back the application to do the next transaction. e.g. if you login into any messanger the time from when submit your request to the time when you are logged in is called the wait time.

Think time is the time the user normally takes to make a decision to do the next task. During the think time the system is essentially available to the user.

Essentially the total time taken to do a task is the "Wait time + Think time".

Wait time is dependent on the system resources and the programming logics whereas Think time is directly proportional to the user friendliness of the product.
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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

jainbrijesh keepit up.

That's the right answer. Good.

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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

In a LoadRunner script there are, of course, different steps that emulate different user actions. Before a subsequent step can start a previous step may finish. LoadRunner knows the previous step has finished based off certain criteria. Wait time defines how long LoadRunner will wait for these criteria to be met before stopping the execution of the script.

Think time is the time a user is waiting before continuing onto a subsequent step. I like luk x's comment: "During the think time the system is essentially available to the user." This is always true.
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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

"Wait time" is used to wait the application for a purticular time where as "think time" is used to wait until that application complete the task which we performed before.

Let's take a sample example............

If you are using any tool to run your application.......Some times you need to stop your tool until your application complete a task bar.If you know the time how much time it takes to complete 100% then you may use "wait time",Otherwise you need to use "think time".What that think time do is it's stop the tool until that total task completed(Whatever the time to complete that task).

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Re: what is the difference between Wait time and Think time?

yes Raja,

We got it.

It's always good and preferable to use "think time" instead of "wait" statement.
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