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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
See the description of the counters for all of the performance reports.
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.

Rational® Performance Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation, and known issues in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for Rational® Performance Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with Rational® Performance Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Performance Tester.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with Rational® Performance Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts in Rational® Performance Tester and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes tasks that you can perform on schedules, test execution with custom code, and Extending Rational® Performance Tester to support other protocols. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- 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
    See the description of the counters for all of the performance reports.
    - Requirements report
      From version 9.2.0.1, 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.
      - Performance report
        The performance report summarizes the validity of the run and the data that is most significant to the run. The report also shows the response trend of the slowest 10 pages in the test and the graph of the response trend of each page for a specified interval.
      - Page Element report
        This report summarizes the most important page element data for the run.
      - Why response time of a page does not equal the sum of its requests
        The response time for a page typically differs from the sum of its requests. This does not mean that your data is incorrect. The difference can be caused by concurrent requests, page connection times, inter-request delays, and custom code within a page.
      - Page Percentile report
        This report shows the 85th, 90th, and 95th percentile response times for all users and all pages in a run, as well as for the 10 slowest pages in a run.
      - Verification Points report
        This report shows the status of the verification points in your tests.
    - 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.
    - 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.
- Troubleshooting Guide
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Performance Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Performance Tester.
- All Guides (PDFs)
  This page contains the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides for Rational® Performance Tester in PDF format.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

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.

In a performance report, you can sort the order of HTTP pages that are captured in a test or schedule either by alphabetical order or order of execution of the HTTP pages. The default sorting of the HTTP pages is by order of execution.