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This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Performance Tester.
Performance test a Web application
The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of Rational® Performance Tester. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.
Module 4: Representing workloads
View how to create schedules that represent a typical workload for your site.
Module 4 summary
In this tutorial module, you learned how to represent a workload accurately by creating a schedule and adding user groups, tests, and other elements to it.

Tutorials
This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Performance Tester.
- Performance test a Web application
  The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of Rational® Performance Tester. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.
  - Introduction: Test a Web application
    This tutorial is designed to introduce you to testing.
  - Module 1: Creating projects and recording user actions
    Learn how to create projects and record user actions for testing. The second part of this module will help you to build an understanding of a recorded test.
  - Module 2: Editing a test
    See how to edit your recorded test to include variable data using datasets and verification points.
  - Module 3: Validating a test with a single user
    Watch a demonstration on running a single-user test for debugging and getting dataset values to work properly.
  - Module 4: Representing workloads
    View how to create schedules that represent a typical workload for your site.
    - Lesson 4.1: Controlling test execution with a schedule
      In this lesson, you will learn how to control test execution by creating a schedule and adding user groups, loops, and tests to the schedule. At the end of the lesson, you will learn how to display your assets in a logical order.
    - Lesson 4.2: Enabling resource monitoring
      In this lesson, you will learn how to enable resource monitoring in a schedule and to add data sources.
    - Module 4 summary
      In this tutorial module, you learned how to represent a workload accurately by creating a schedule and adding user groups, tests, and other elements to it.
  - Module 5: Running the test
    Become familiar with configuring a schedule, running a schedule, and adding virtual users during a test run.
  - Module 6: Evaluating results
    Learn how to retrieve stored test results in reports, customize a report, and get detailed information on an event that occurred in a test.
  - Summary
    This tutorial has taught you the basics of Rational® Performance Tester. You have learned how this product provides the following functions and features:
- Performance test an SAP application
  The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of IBM® Rational® Performance Tester for testing applications on SAP servers. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.
- Performance test a Citrix application
  The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of using IBM® Rational® Performance Tester for testing applications running in a Citrix XenApp environment. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.
- Test an SOA application
  The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of IBM® Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality or the SOA extension for IBM Rational Performance Tester. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.

Module 4 summary

In this tutorial module, you learned how to represent a workload accurately by creating a schedule and adding user groups, tests, and other elements to it.

Lessons learned

By completing this module, you learned about the following concepts and tasks:

Grouping tests in a logical order with user groups
Adding a loop to a schedule to repeat a test for a number of iterations and set the test run rate
Adding a test to a schedule to emulate accurately the actions of individual users
Displaying your assets by type or in the default alphabetical order.
Monitoring resources to capture system resource data, such as processor or memory usage