Session template packages for automated load testing

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with programmed instructions, execution of the programmed instructions by a computer operable to:

• scan a clip of messages that includes message requests and message responses arranged in a sequence, the scan being performed based on one or more search parameters and producing a list of one or more name/value pairs, the clip being utilized to perform a load test on a target website, each name/value pair having a corresponding value;
• for each name/value pair in the list:
• identify a message request in the clip where the corresponding value is first found;
• look backwards in the sequence from the message request where the corresponding value is first found to locate prior message responses where the corresponding value is found;
• specify an extraction point in the clip for the corresponding value as a latest message response in the sequence where the corresponding value was returned from the target website;
• and
• store the corresponding value as a property.

A computer-implemented method for applying a session template to a clip of messages that includes message requests and message responses arranged in a sequence, the session template comprising an algorithm for locating and extracting a single value in a message of a recorded load test session, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• applying the algorithm to each message response in the sequence until a non-empty value that matches the single value is found in a message at a location in the clip;
• looking backwards in the sequence from the location to confirm that the single value was not used in a prior message request;
• searching the clip from the location to confirm that the single value is used in a subsequent message request in association with a name stored in the session template;
• adding the algorithm to the message to get the single value from the message response;
• and
• storing the single value in a property.