Release notes for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester

Rational® Performance Tester is a scripting-free environment for automating load and scalability testing of web, ERP, and server-based software applications. Rational® Performance Tester provides rich and customizable reporting to help you identify the presence and cause of system bottlenecks. It captures the network traffic that is rendered when the application under test interacts with a server. This network traffic is then emulated on multiple virtual users while playing back the test. See Product overview.

• Introducing the new execution agent as part of Rational® Performance Tester Agent installation

  You can now install an execution agent as part of Rational® Performance Tester Agent installation process. You can now perform the automation testing of Windows-based desktop applications, mobile web, hybrid applications on iOS and Android mobiles by using the execution agent. See Installing Rational Performance Tester Agent.

• Support for application performance management tools

  You can now use the Dynatrace application with Rational® Performance Tester to enhance the data collection by adding filters based on HTTP headers that you used in tests. See Using Application Performance Management in a schedule.

• Using a JSON notation in a reference for an HTTP test

  If a request or a response contains the JSON data, then the test editor displays a value in a more readable JSON format. If you create a reference in the JSON data, you can now use the JSON notation instead of a regular expression to locate the JSON value at run time. See Creating a reference or field reference.

• Support to record tests by using the Microsoft Edge browser

  After you install Rational® Performance Tester either on Windows systems or Mac operating systems, you can now choose the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser to record the following tests:

  • HTTP tests

  • Citrix tests from the Citrix Web Interface

  • SAP tests when initiated from HTTP SAP-portal

  • Service tests when recorded from a browser

  See Recording an HTTP test.

• Support to the latest version of the SAP GUI client

  You can now record and play back tests of SAP applications built with the SAP GUI client V7.7.

• Bug fixes

  Fixed customer-reported and internally found defects.

To download the product from IBM® Passport Advantage®, you must follow the instructions provided in the download document at Rational® Performance Tester V10.2.0.

For installation instructions, see Installation of the product by using IBM Installation Manager.

Known problems are documented in the download document for each product and in the form of individual technotes in the Support Knowledge Base:

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

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