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Rational® Performance Tester
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.
Integration with other products
You can integrate Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
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.

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.
  - Installation of Rational® Performance Tester
    Installing 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 Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, 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 Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality 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 IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.
    - Testing with Ant
      You can use ant to run performance and compound tests from the command line. Starting from V2.0.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously. V5.0 of the ant plugin is supported in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester V10.0.2 of the testing products.
    - 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 IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Performance Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
    - Integrating with Apache JMeter
      Starting from 9.5, you can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to execute JMeter tests.
    - EGit integration
      EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system. You can store your test assets in the Git repository and use EGit for the daily version control operations.
    - 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.
      - Configuring the URL of Engineering Workflow Management
        You must configure the URL of the Engineering Workflow Management server to use it as defect tracking tool in Rational® Performance Tester.
      - Tracking defects with Engineering Workflow Management
        You can submit defects to Engineering Workflow Management from Rational® Performance Tester. By default, the test log editor uses Bugzilla as the defect tracking site. You must configure the product to use Engineering Workflow Management for defect tracking.
    - Testing with Rational® Integration Tester
      Starting from V9.1.1, you can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to execute Integration tests. In 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. In Rational Performance Tester, you can create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
    - 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.
    - Testing with Jenkins
      You can use the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin for performance testing to run tests on a Jenkins server by using a Jenkins build step.
    - Testing with Maven
      Starting from V9.2.0, 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).
    - Integrating and running performance test scripts in Micro Focus ALM
      To obtain test result details, you must integrate and run performance test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by using a readily available template available in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester installation directory.
- 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.
- 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.

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.

You can use Rational® Performance Tester to record and play back tests for the application that you develop and view their results. When you discover that you might want to raise defects, issues, or other types of work items for the test assets, you can create defects, issues, or other work items without the need to open Engineering Workflow Management.

For more information about Engineering Workflow Management, refer to the IBM® Engineering Workflow Management documentation.

The following table lists the tasks that you must perform to integrate Rational® Performance Tester with Engineering Workflow Management:

Tasks	Go to...
Install Rational® Performance Tester.	Installation of the product by using Installation Manager
Create any or all of the following types of test assets in Rational® Performance Tester to test your application: Compound tests Performance tests Schedules (Rate or VU Schedules)	Test Author Guide
Install Engineering Workflow Management and gain access to it.	IBM® Engineering Workflow Management documentation Note: The System Requirements provide more information about specific versions of Engineering Workflow Management requirements.
Run the test assets.	Running a local schedule or test
Configure the Engineering Workflow Management server URL in Rational® Performance Tester.	Configuring the URL of Engineering Workflow Management
Create defects from Rational® Performance Tester.	Tracking defects with Engineering Workflow Management