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This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Tester Guide - Performance Testing
Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
Creating and running performance tests
This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
Creating performance tests
A performance test is created within a Rational® Integration Tester project.

Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Tester Guide - Integration Testing
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
- Tester Guide - Performance Testing
  Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
  - Creating and running performance tests
    This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
    - Before creating performance tests
      Agents (Rational® Integration Tester Agent) are required on the computers that will run IBM® Rational Integration Tester tests and the probes that monitor the systems.
    - Creating performance tests
      A performance test is created within a Rational® Integration Tester project.
      - Execution
        Select the root of the performance test in the configuration tree to display its configuration details, as shown below.
      - Configuring references
        You can configure a performance test to run scenarios, which are collections of stubs, that are available on the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel domain associated with your Rational Integration Tester project.
      - Configuring probes
        The Probes tab (on the Config tab) is used to configure which probes to run during the test, and where to run them.
      - Adding distributed tests
        You can add distributed tests to a performance test.
      - Log Measurement action (optional)
        With the Log Measurement action, you can periodically record custom data, that is, data that is not provided by test engines and probes, as a performance test runs. The recorded data is stored in a database and is used to generate performance charts. Each item of data that is recorded is called a counter. Attributes are used to identify the counters. A UTC time stamp is stored with each set of counters.
    - Performance tests
      Performance tests are executed in Rational® Integration Tester in the same way and from the same perspectives as any other test resource.
    - Troubleshooting: Running a performance test with a MySQL database
      You can troubleshoot an issue that you encounter while you run a performance test with a MySQL database.
  - View test results
    This topic describes how to work with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
  - Deploying probes
    A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
- Tester Guide - Service Virtualization
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.

Creating performance tests

A performance test is created within a Rational® Integration Tester project.

About this task

To create a performance test:

Procedure

Right-click the required operation or folder and click New > Tests > Performance Test.
Alternatively, click the arrow next to the test icon at the top of the component tree and click Performance Test.
In the Create new Performance Test dialog box, enter a suitable name for the performance test (the tests results will be identified by this name).
Click OK.
The empty performance test is displayed in the design view, to the right.

The new test is displayed at the top of an empty tree under the Config tab. The tree is created as items are added to the test. When an item in the tree is selected, its details are displayed on the right panel. With nothing selected (right-click the empty space beneath the tree), some documentation about using the test editor is displayed.

Note: On the Documentation tab, you can enter a description of the test and enter the name or user ID of the tests owner.

What to do next

If the test does not have any timed sections, when you run the test, the status messages will neither report the pass or fail progress nor report any values for passed, timed out, and failed parameters. To prevent this problem, add a timed section around your test steps in the test sequence. See Timed sections.