A transaction represents the process in your application that you are interested in measuring.

By defining a transaction you can measure how long it takes to run a section of a test script.

You define transactions within your test by enclosing the appropriate sections of the test with start and end transaction statements. During the test run, the StartTransaction step signals the beginning of the time measurement.

The time measurement continues until the EndTransaction step is reached.
The test report displays the time it took to perform the transaction.

Below is an example test report

**Services.StartTransaction ''ReserveSeat''**

'Sets the Transaction timer on

**Services.EndTransaction ''ReserveSeat''**

'Ends the transaction timer