HERMT Tutorial
In this tutorial, one will describe several cases to show you the capabilities of the tool.
1. Common measurements: The first case gives you an overview of the common measurements which can be done with HERMT. It is the time spent by a user on a page and the list of all pages visited by a user.
Click on the start button of HERMT Run an Internet Explorer box Go to http://www.nist.gov Click on "NIST Laboratories" link Click on "Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing" link Run another Internet Explorer box Go to http://www.yahoo.com Click on the stop button of HERMT
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In the first box, you have for each page, the computer name and IP address of the user, the time spent on the page, the time frame and the URL of the page. In the box below, you have the same information but ordered by instance of Internet Explorer.
2. Form: The second case will show you the monitoring on pages with form.
Click on the start button of HERMT Run an Internet Explorer box Click on this link Fill out the form Click on the stop button of HERMT
In the second box (i.e. the one ordered by instance of IE), find the good instance of IE and you will see for each field, its value.
3. Idle Time: The third case is more focus on the calculation of idle time. The idle time is taken in consideration to make more accurate the measurement on the time spent by a user on a page. Indeed imagine a physician during an examination. He looks at the information on his patient, and then receives a phone call. He speaks on the phone during 5 minutes and then goes on his examination. The tool will consider the phone call as idle time. A screensaver is launched after x second(s) (x can be set in the config.txt file) when there is no activity on the computer. The time frame when the screensaver was launched is idle time.
Click on the start button of HERMT Run an Internet Explorer box Wait for (x + y) second and the start of the screensaver (x is set to 10 second by default).y is the idle time. Click on the stop button of HERMT
In the second box (i.e. the one ordered by instance of IE), find the good instance of IE and you will see an entry for the idle time.
4. Statistics
By clicking on the Statistics button, you can view statistics calculated from measurements. In the first box you have the list of all pages visited during the monitoring. By clicking on one of the entries, you will have cumulated statistics on the page, and information about navigation.
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