Release notes for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester

Rational® Performance Tester is a scripting-free environment for automating load and scalability testing of web, ERP, and server-based software applications. Rational® Performance Tester provides rich and customizable reporting to help you identify the presence and cause of system bottlenecks. It captures the network traffic that is rendered when the application under test interacts with a server. This network traffic is then emulated on multiple virtual users while playing back the test. See the Product overview.

• Documentation

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• Exporting test results to JSON

  When you want to analyze test results in a text format, you can now export all test results or a specific test result that you captured during a test run to a JSON file. See Methods to export test results into a JSON file.

• Importing a CSV file with a separator character

  You can now import a CSV file that has a separator character into the dataset and configure the required separator values in the CSV Editor. See Editing datasets.

• Adding a Verification point to an SAP object

  You can now add a verification point to an SAP object in the SAP GUI Grid View to verify the state of the SAP object after the SAP recording is complete. See Adding a verification point to an SAP GUI Grid View object.

• Recording an SAP transaction from a running SAP GUI

  You can now record certain SAP transactions from a running SAP GUI session to create a test that contains some specific part of an SAP session. See Recording a specific SAP transaction from a running SAP session.

• SAP extension on Windows 64-bit operating system

  You can now choose SAP extension when you install Rational® Performance Tester on Windows 64-bit operating systems.

• Enhancements to reports and counters

  • The title of the page in a performance report is now updated with the filter value that you specified in the View Settings pane. See Filtering data in test results.

  • In a Transaction report, you can now view the number of transactions that are active during the schedule run and the number of virtual users that execute certain transactions simultaneously. See Transaction report.

  • You can now publish large test results from Rational® Performance Tester to Rational® Test Automation Server. See Publishing test results to the server.

  • When you want to analyze the additional counters on a quick view reports, you can now add percentile counters to the counter tree. See Adding additional counters on a separate page.

  • You can now define a percentile value as decimal numbers for a counter. See Modifying counters in a graph.

• Access to a dataset from a custom code

  You can now access datasets from a custom code. When a test is associated with a dataset, you can read or write the dataset values from the custom code. See Reading and writing data from a dataset.

• Access to the actual name of the schedule

  When you use the custom code, you can now access the actual name of the schedule in the test log. See Accessing the actual schedule name from the custom code.

• Brotli encoding format

  HTTP tests now automatically decompress data that were compressed, by using the Brotli encoding format.

To download the product from IBM® Passport Advantage®, you must follow the instructions provided in the download document at Rational® Performance Tester V10.1.2.

For installation instructions, see Installation of the product by using Installation Manager.

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