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Rational® Performance Tester
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.
Logs overview
Rational® Performance Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
Viewing test logs
To see a record of all the events that occurred during a test run or a schedule run, as well as the status of each verification point, open the test log for that run. You can also compare an event from the test log with the request or response in the test to view the differences between the recording and the playback of the test.

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 to start 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 product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- 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.
  - Evaluating results
    After the test or schedule run completes, the performance data is displayed in the results. The results include various reports. You can evaluate the results in the web analytic reports. Web analytics collect data using new technologies thereby providing better user experience.
  - Logs overview
    Rational® Performance Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
    - Viewing test logs
      To see a record of all the events that occurred during a test run or a schedule run, as well as the status of each verification point, open the test log for that run. You can also compare an event from the test log with the request or response in the test to view the differences between the recording and the playback of the test.
    - Viewing errors while running tests
      To view errors and other events while a test is running, use the Execution Event Console view. If problems occur in a test run, you can examine the Execution Event Console view to determine whether to stop or continue the test.
    - Viewing reports after a run
      Reports are generated and displayed automatically after a run. Each test result begins with the name of the schedule or test, and ends with the timestamp of the run in brackets.
    - Accessing reports remotely
      Before executing a schedule or test, you can enable an option so that you can access reports remotely from a web browser. When you make changes to a report, the changes are saved to the workspace where the workbench is running.
    - Exporting test logs
      To process data from a performance test in another application or to use search tools to locate text in a test log, export the test log to a text file.
    - Exporting event log
      To view all the events that occurred during the run of a test from another file, you can export this data from the Event Log panel, to an XML, CSV, or text file.
    - Exporting event console output
      To view errors and other events of a test run from another file, you can export this data from the Execution Event Console view to an XML, CSV, or text file.
    - Viewing adjustments to page response times
      To see the adjustments to page response times that are measured during a test run or a schedule run, open the test log for that run.
    - Viewing resource monitoring data
      You can analyze the performance of the computer resources, application server, or database servers by viewing the resource monitoring data in web analytics reports.
  - Reports and counters
    See the description of the counters for all of the performance reports.
- 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)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of Rational® Performance Tester as a PDF file.
- 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.

Viewing test logs

To see a record of all the events that occurred during a test run or a schedule run, as well as the status of each verification point, open the test log for that run. You can also compare an event from the test log with the request or response in the test to view the differences between the recording and the playback of the test.

About this task

The test log file is stored in binary format with a .executiondlr file name extension in the project directory of your workspace. You can also view the test log in the user interface.

Procedure

In the Test Navigator view, right-click the executed test; then click Display Test Log.
On the Overview tab, view the verdict summary for the executed test. To see the potential data correlation errors in a separate view, click Display Potential Data Correlation Errors.
On the Events tab, view the errors, failures, and passes for each event in the test.
- To navigate to the verdict type, click the Select the verdict type icon.
- To compare an event or request in the test log with the response or request of the test, right-click an event and click Compare With Test > Request, Compare With Test > Response Data, or Compare With Test > Response Headers. The compare editor highlights the differences.
On the Data Correlation tab, see all the references and substitutions that occurred during a test execution, as well as the data correlation errors. By default, you view both references and substituters. To view only substituters, click the Show References icon. To view the correlation data for each virtual user that was executed, click the Merge Users icon. This icon is enabled only for a schedule. In the Data Correlation section, when you click an event, you can see the correlation data in either the Content View or the Table View.

What to do next

From the test log, you can submit, search, and open defects in a defect tracking system. For details on configuring the test log preferences and working with defects, see Associating defects with a test log.