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UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool
UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool is a program that you can run to test UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer performance in various scenarios. It is particularly useful for simulating live interviewing across a number of projects that are running simultaneously, where it can highlight potential problems with system loading before the projects go live. You can also use it to test and evaluate the effect of changes in your system configuration before implementing them.
Note When testing phone surveys, Enable monitoring/recording must be selected and Automatically select next contact must not be selected. The settings are on the Interview Settings tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer Interviewing Options activity. For more information, see “Interview settings” in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin User's Guide.
With UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool you can:
Automatically run varying numbers of interviews using multiple URLs on any number of projects.
Simulate typical respondent behavior by specifying the percentage use of the Next, Previous, Stop and Goto buttons in the test, and the percentage of incorrect answers. See Respondent tab.
Test sample management, including restarts from sample management. See Sample Management tab (web only).
Define data generation parameters, including auto-answer data sources connections, number of cases, and so on. See Data Generation tab.
Test that a questionnaire runs through all routing and has no infinite loops. (This can also be done in UNICOM Intelligence Professional using the same Auto Answer generator as is used by UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool.)
Supply interview parameters to a test: see Interview Parameters tab (web only).
Supply interviewer information to a test: see Interviewer tab (phone only).
Generate and save logging information for each interview run: see Logging information.
Generate and save timing information on a per page basis. See Timings.
Save test specifications and reload them.
Save the test configuration, timings, and debug logs in a standard format.
View the test configuration, timings, and debug logs from within UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool.
Change certain test characteristics while a test is running.
Pause a test part-way through. See Running tests for more information.
Specify a random seed for the Random Answer player so that any interview within a test scenario can be identically reproduced. See Data Generation tab for more information.
Write scripts against the UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool interface. See Writing UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool scripts.
See
How UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool answers questions
Guidelines for using UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool
Running UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool
UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool Global Settings
Setting up and editing tests
Running tests
Logging information
Timings
Deleting tests
Writing UNICOM Intelligence Load Tool scripts
See also
Monitoring and tuning system performance