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Rational® Performance Test Server
Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Technical Tester Guide
Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
Creating and running performance tests
This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
Performance tests
Performance tests are executed in Rational® Integration Tester in the same way and from the same perspectives as any other test resource.
Stages in the execution of a performance test
The execution of a performance test has multiple stages.

Rational® Performance Test Server
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server.
- Administrator Guide
  Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
- Tester Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
  - Technical Tester Guide
    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
    - Creating and running performance tests
      This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
      - Before creating performance tests
        Agents (Rational® Integration Tester Agent) are required on the computers that will run IBM® Rational Integration Tester tests and the probes that monitor the systems.
      - Creating performance tests
        A performance test is created within a Rational® Integration Tester project.
      - Performance tests
        Performance tests are executed in Rational® Integration Tester in the same way and from the same perspectives as any other test resource.
        Stages in the execution of a performance test
        The execution of a performance test has multiple stages.
        Initialize/tear-down phase differences
        When running Rational® Integration Tester tests outside of a performance test, the Initialize and Tear-down phases are each run only once.
        Execution options
      - Troubleshooting: Running a performance test with a MySQL database
        You can troubleshoot an issue that you encounter while you run a performance test with a MySQL database.
    - View test results
      This topic describes how to work with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
    - Deploying probes
      A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
  - Integration Tester Guide
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
- 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 product documentation.

Stages in the execution of a performance test

The execution of a performance test has multiple stages.

Probes and the background tests are started and allowed to initialize during pre load generation statistics collection interval.
Load generation tests are run, if applicable.
The post load generation statistics collection interval occurs.

Background tests are started before the pre load generation statistics collection interval and stopped after the post load generation statistics collection interval. If there are no load-generating phases (that is, if there are no load-generating tests in the performance test), this is the only duration for which the background tests run. Performance tests automatically stop after running the load-generating tests (if applicable) and the post load generation statistics collection interval.