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Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
Reports and counters
After the tests or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics.
Citrix counters
Citrix generic counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your Citrix reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
Citrix user action counters
Citrix user action counters provide information about emulated user input actions in the run.

Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Evaluating results in web analytic reports
  After the test run, evaluate the results in the web analytic reports. Web analytics collect data using new technologies thereby providing better user experience.
- Logs overview
  Rational® Performance Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
- Reports and counters
  After the tests or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics.
  - Requirements report
    The Performance Requirements report is renamed to Requirements report. The Requirements report validates the performance and functional requirements that you set in a test or in a schedule.
  - Synchronization Point report
    This report provides information about the synchronization points in test runs and lets you manually release a user from a synchronization point. To release a user, right-click in the report and select Manage Synchronization Points.
  - Loops report
    This report summarizes the functionality of loops in a test.
  - Agents Health Report
    With the Agents Health Report, you can view the usage data of CPU, Memory, Threads, and JVM Heap for the agent machines involved in the run. The report shows usage data for the Agent Host and Agent Process on the agent machines. By default, the Enable Agent Health Report check box at Window > Preferences > Test > Test Execution is selected. Also, by default, the report opens in the Compare mode. You cannot disable the compare mode.
  - Rate Runner report
    You can use the Rate Runner report to view how all the Rate Runner groups in the Rate Schedule have performed during the run.
  - Transaction report
    This report summarizes the success of transactions in the run, plots on a graph the response trend of each transaction during a specific sample interval, and shows the transaction throughput.
  - Transaction Percentile report
    This report shows the 85th, 90th, and 95th percentile elapsed times for all users, the union of all transactions in a run, and for the 10 slowest transactions in a run.
  - Transaction Net Server Time Percentile report
    This report shows the 85th, 90th, and 95th percentile net server times for all users and the union of all transactions in a run. The report also shows the 10 slowest transactions in a run. The net server time corresponds to the cumulative server response times within a transaction. Net server time does not include think times and delays, which are included in the elapsed time.
  - Rate Generator report
    Use this report to determine if the transactions run at the rate that you specify.
  - HTTP performance test reports
    When you test an HTTP system, reports are produced during a run and saved after a run. You can then analyze the reports to know the performance of the system under test.
  - SAP performance test reports
    When you test an SAP application, these performance test reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
  - Citrix performance test reports
    When you test a Citrix XenApp application, these reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
  - Web service performance test reports
    When you test a web service, these reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
  - Socket performance test reports
    When you test a socket application, these performance test reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
  - HTTP counters
    HTTP counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
  - SAP counters
    SAP generic counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your SAP reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
  - Citrix counters
    Citrix generic counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your Citrix reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
    - Citrix window synchronization counters
      Citrix window synchronization counters provide information about window synchronizations that were attempted, completed, or produced a timeout within the specified timeout limit. Window synchronization is the mechanism used by the test to compare windows from the test with actual windows in the run.
    - Citrix image synchronization counters
      Citrix image synchronization counters provide information about image synchronizations that were attempted, completed, or produced a timeout within the specified timeout limit. Image synchronization is the mechanism used by the test to compare image areas from the test with actual image area in the run.
    - Citrix timer counters
      Citrix timer counters provide information about the response time of window events in a run. Response times are determined by measurements that are located in the tests.
    - Citrix user action counters
      Citrix user action counters provide information about emulated user input actions in the run.
    - Citrix window counters
      Citrix window counters provide information about verification points.
  - Service counters
    Service counters, which are displayed in the Test Runs view, enable you to customize your service test reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
  - Socket counters
    With socket generic counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, you can customize your socket reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.

Citrix user action counters

Citrix user action counters provide information about emulated user input actions in the run.

Some counters pertain to intervals in the run. You set the Statistics sample interval value in the schedule, as a schedule property.

The counters in the following table provide an aggregate value for all transactions. Folders that contain aggregate counters have a clock superimposed on them: folder icon with a clock superimposed .

User Actions
Counter Name	Description
Count [for Interval]	The total number of user input actions within the most recent sample interval
Count [for Run]	The total number of user input actions in the entire run
Rate [per second] [for Interval]	The rate per second of user input actions within the most recent sample interval
Rate [per second] [for Run]	The rate per second of user input actions in the entire run

The counters in the following table provide individual values for each test. Folders that contain individual counters have an asterisk superimposed on them: folder icon with an asterisk superimposed .

User Actions > All User Actions
Counter Name	Description
Total User Actions For Interval	The total number of user input actions within the most recent sample interval
Total User Actions For Run	The total number of user input actions in the entire run
User Action Rate For Interval	The rate per second of user input actions within the most recent sample interval
User Action Rate For Run	The rate per second of user input actions in the entire run