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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 5: Running the test
Become familiar with configuring a schedule, running a schedule, and adding virtual users during a test run.

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.
  - Module 5: Running the test
    Become familiar with configuring a schedule, running a schedule, and adding virtual users during a test run.
    - Lesson 5.1: Configuring the schedule
      In this lesson, you will learn how to set up a schedule configuration, which controls where the execution results are stored.
    - Lesson 5.2: Running the schedule and viewing the reports
      In this lesson, you will learn how to run the schedule.
    - Lesson 5.3: Adding virtual users during a run
      In this lesson, you will learn how to increase the number of virtual users during a schedule run.
    - Module 5 summary
      In this tutorial module, you learned how to configure and run a schedule, and add virtual users to the schedule during a 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 5: Running the test

Become familiar with configuring a schedule, running a schedule, and adding virtual users during a test run.

Learning objectives

After completing the lessons in this module, you will know how to do the following tasks and understand the associated concepts:

Configure and run the schedule
View the report
Add virtual users during a run

Time required

This module requires approximately 10 minutes to complete.