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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.
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.
Migrating test assets to new version of the product
After you install a later version of the product and you open the product, you are prompted to migrate test projects, tests, schedules, rules, and reports. Tests and schedules are migrated automatically when you modify and save them.

Rational® Performance Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, 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 IBM® 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.
    - Updating Rational® Performance Tester
      You can search for product updates and install the updates for your product.
    - Migrating test assets to new version of the product
      After you install a later version of the product and you open the product, you are prompted to migrate test projects, tests, schedules, rules, and reports. Tests and schedules are migrated automatically when you modify and save them.
  - 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 with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
- 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.

Migrating test assets to new version of the product

After you install a later version of the product and you open the product, you are prompted to migrate test projects, tests, schedules, rules, and reports. Tests and schedules are migrated automatically when you modify and save them.

Rational® Performance Tester restrict the number of versions that are installed on your computer. You cannot have both of these products or two versions of these products installed at one time. Before you install a new version, uninstall the previous version of the product. If you update the product with IBM® Installation Manager, you do not have to uninstall the previous version.

Uninstalling a previous version does not delete your test assets.

When you open a project that contains an older test asset, a message is displayed in the Test Navigator view. Typically, you upgrade your tests, schedules, and rules.

The Asset dependencies builder window is not displayed unless an older test asset is included in the Test Navigator view. To upgrade older test assets to the latest version, open the projects that contain those assets in the Test Navigator view. Double-click the project folder to open the project. When you open a test project that was created in a previous version of the product, you are prompted to upgrade the project and its contents to the latest version. Typically, you upgrade test projects.

Important: Do not open a migrated test project with a previous version of the product.

If you leave tests, schedules, and rules unchanged, they will not have the new functions that current release adds. You can always save a modified test asset under a new name, which preserves the older asset. You can identify an older asset by its version, which is listed in brackets: tab showing, in brackets, the product version that the asset was created

tab showing, in brackets, the product version that the asset was created

Note: A new release might include enhancements to the default reports. When you run a test or schedule or open a report, you are prompted to upgrade reports to the latest version. If you upgrade the default reports to the latest version, you lose customizations that you have made to the reports.

If you encounter errors when you open a workspace from a different version of the product, reset the perspective. To reset the perspective, click Window > Reset Perspective.