Test engines

Test engines are instances of Rational® Integration Tester that execute performance tests.

When a performance test is started, the performance test controller sends a copy of the project to the test engine for it to run.

For Windows™ users, the engine process name is TestEngine.exe.

For Unix-like system users, the engine process is a Java™ process that may be identified by using long ps output.

Each new agent includes a single test engine instance called default. This test engine can run one distributed test at a time. If required, you can configure additional test engines on a single agent to run multiple tests simultaneously.

The following topics describe how to create additional test engines and how to link test engines to performance tests.