You can find the description of Rational® Performance Tester.

You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Performance Tester.

You can find information about the installation instructions for Rational® Performance Tester.

You can find information about IBM technical support assistance for Rational® Performance Tester.

The task flows are designed to help you understand the end-to-end process of some of the capabilities of performance testing. For some of the technologies, there are specific task flows that you can follow to gain a clear understanding of the process.

You can gain the conceptual understanding of Rational® Performance Tester and its test extensions with these topics.

When you work in the streamlined Eclipse mode, only those functions that are directly related to the product are enabled in the workbench. When you install the product, by default, the check box to use the streamlined Eclipse mode is selected. With the full Eclipse mode, you have access to all Eclipse functions.

The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of Rational® Performance Tester. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.

The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of Rational® Performance Tester for testing applications on SAP servers. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.

The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of using Rational® Performance Tester for testing applications running in a Citrix XenApp environment. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.

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.

The installation tuning tests were created to quickly and conveniently apply load to an application server for the purpose of tuning the application server for maximum throughput. The three tests that are provided stress various parts of the application server.

Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.

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.

When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of Rational® Performance Tester, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.

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.

You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.

To create a test, you record representative interactions with an application.

After you record a test, you can edit it to include datasets (to provide variable data rather than the data that you recorded), verification points (to confirm that the test runs as expected), and data correlation (to ensure that returned data is appropriate for the corresponding request). You can also add protocol-specific elements to a test. When you edit a test, the modified items appear in italic type. The italic type changes to regular type after you save the test.

You can create compound tests to help you organize smaller tests into scenarios that can then be run end-to-end. You can combine tests from different extensions to achieve end-to-end flow.

Service stubs enable you to simulate the behavior of an actual service for a wide variety testing or integration purposes.

The generic service client enables you to send requests to services for which you do not have a convenient client and to view the responses returned by the service.

You emulate a workload by creating a schedule and adding user groups/rate runner groups, tests, and other elements to it.

After you have added the user groups, tests, and other items to a schedule, and you are satisfied that it represents a realistic workload, you run the schedule.

You can extend how you run your tests by writing custom Java™ code and calling the code from the test. You can also specify that results from the tests that are affected by your custom code be included in reports.

The Rational® Performance Tester Extensibility Software Development Kit (SDK) enables you to create extensions to support testing new protocols without modifying the core product code. You can create an extension that provides functionality for testing other protocols in addition to the HTTP protocol support that is standard in Rational Performance Tester.

After the test run, evaluate the results in the web analytic reports. Web analytics collect data using new technologies thereby providing better user experience.

Rational® Performance Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.

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.

This topic provides information about how to troubleshoot several problems with Rational® Performance Tester.

Find more information about the error messages.

You can find the additional error messages.

Accessibility features help users who have physical disabilities, such as visual and, hearing impairment, or limited mobility, to use the software products successfully.

See these performance testing topics for general reference.

Read the UI preferences topics.

With the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) security editor you can create and edit security configurations for a WSDL file.

This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.