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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.
Creating performance tests
A performance test is created within a Rational® Integration Tester project.
Adding distributed tests
You can add distributed tests to a performance test.
Timed sections
When tests are run within a distributed test in IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server, the overall execution times (that is, start to finish) are recorded.
Test action support for timed sections
The following table lists the various test steps and the support offered when using timed sections around them.

Rational® Integration Tester
- 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® Integration Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.
        Execution
        Select the root of the performance test in the configuration tree to display its configuration details, as shown below.
        Configuring references
        You can configure a performance test to run scenarios, which are collections of stubs, that are available on the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel domain associated with your Rational Integration Tester project.
        Configuring probes
        The Probes tab (on the Config tab) is used to configure which probes to run during the test, and where to run them.
        Adding distributed tests
        You can add distributed tests to a performance test.
        Configuring execution options
        On the Execution tab, you can modify the name of the selected test as well as the Rational® Integration Tester test that it should run.
        Load-generating tests
        If the load profile for the selected test is Constant Growth, the execution parameters will be defined in this topic and the number of test phases and their duration are fixed.
        Background tests
        A background test simply runs the selected test repeatedly while the performance test is active.
        Test engines
        Test engines are instances of Rational® Integration Tester that execute performance tests.
        Configuring input mappings
        On the Input Mappings tab, you can map values from a selected test data set to the tags in your test.
        Descriptions/notes
        On the Documentation tab, you can enter a description or notes about the selected test, and specify the test’s owner.
        Timed sections
        When tests are run within a distributed test in IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server, the overall execution times (that is, start to finish) are recorded.
        Test action support for timed sections
        The following table lists the various test steps and the support offered when using timed sections around them.
        Configuring begin timed section actions
        The Begin Timed Section action marks the start of an individually timed section within the test.
        End timed section actions
        The End Timed Section action marks the end of an individually timed section within the test.
        Log Measurement action (optional)
        With the Log Measurement action, you can periodically record custom data, that is, data that is not provided by test engines and probes, as a performance test runs. The recorded data is stored in a database and is used to generate performance charts. Each item of data that is recorded is called a counter. Attributes are used to identify the counters. A UTC time stamp is stored with each set of counters.
      - Performance tests
        Performance tests are executed in Rational® Integration Tester in the same way and from the same perspectives as any other test resource.
      - 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 (Service Virtualization)
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
- Troubleshooting
  While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
- Reference Guide
  This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. 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.

Test action support for timed sections

The following table lists the various test steps and the support offered when using timed sections around them.

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Note: Support relates to placing the begin/end steps directly before or after them. An unsupported step may still reside within a timed section if it complies with the limitations described in the following table.


Test Action	Begin Timed Section	End Timed Section
Assert Function	(Cannot be used within timed sections.)
Decision	Immediately before command execution	Immediately after the true or false path is followed.
Execute Resource	Immediately before the resource is called.	Immediately after execution returns back from the resource.
Fail	Not supported.	When the action is reached.
Function	Immediately before the function is executed	Immediately after the function returns.
Log	Immediately before the message is logged.	Immediately after the message is logged.
Log Measurement	(Cannot be used within timed sections. For information about this action, refer to Log Measurement action (optional).)
Lookup Test Data	Immediately before the test data is looked up.	Immediately after the true or false path is followed.
Pass	Not supported.	When the action is reached.
Publish	Immediately before the message is published.	Immediately after the message is published.
Receive Reply	Immediately before starting to wait for a reply.	Immediately after a response is received.
Receive Request	Immediately before the system starts waiting for a request.	Immediately after a request is received.
Run Command	Immediately before command execution	Immediately after command execution.
Send Reply	Immediately before responding.	Immediately after responding.
Send Request	Immediately before sending the request.	Immediately after sending the request.
Sleep	Immediately before the sleep begins.	Immediately after the sleep finishes.
SQL Command	Immediately before statement execution	Immediately after statement execution
SQL Query	Immediately before statement execution	Immediately after statement execution
Subscribe	Immediately before the system starts waiting for an event.	Immediately after an event is received.
	Validation is ignored for the timestamp but the pass/fail status may be affected by it.
Subscribe Until	(Not supported. Action is deprecated.)
User Interaction	(Cannot be used in performance tests.)