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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integration with other products
You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with Micro Focus ALM
You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
Running tests from Micro Focus ALM
You can run test assets from Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to test the performance of your application under test.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of Rational® Performance Tester
  Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of Rational® Performance Tester, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure Rational® Performance Tester when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with Rational® Performance Tester.
  - Running tests by using Ant
    When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Integration with Apache JMeter
    You can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Performance Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.
  - Integration with IBM® Rational® Integration Tester
    You can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to run integration tests from Rational Performance Tester. You can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Performance Tester by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run performance test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
  - Integration of Jaeger with the product
    Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
    - Creating a test script in Micro Focus ALM
      You must create a VAPI-XP-TEST type of test script on Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to provide the details of the performance test runs.
    - Configuring test scripts in Micro Focus ALM
      You must configure the test script that you created in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run the performance test assets.
    - Running tests from Micro Focus ALM
      You can run test assets from Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to test the performance of your application under test.

Running tests from Micro Focus ALM

You can run test assets from Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to test the performance of your application under test.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Created a test script in Micro Focus ALM. See Creating a test script in Micro Focus ALM.
Configured the test script in Micro Focus ALM. See Configuring test scripts in Micro Focus ALM.
Optional: Generated offline user token to publish test results to Rational® Test Automation Server. For more information refer to Managing access to the server in the Rational® Test Automation Server Documentation.
Closed Rational® Performance Tester.

Procedure

Log in to the Micro Focus ALM portal, if you are not already logged in.
The Micro Focus ALM dashboard is displayed.
Expand Testing from the left pane, and then click Test Plan.
Open the test script that you want to run.
Click the Test Script tab.
The test script is displayed.
Click the Execute Script icon to run the test script.

Results

You have run the performance test scripts in Micro Focus ALM.

What to do next

You can view the test result details that are displayed in the Output window of Micro Focus ALM.

The Reports information section on the Output window displays the names of the report along with its corresponding URLs if you publish test results to Rational® Test Automation Server.