Integration with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy

You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run performance test assets as a Process from UrbanCode™ Deploy.

When you use UrbanCode™ Deploy for automating the deployments of your applications to an environment during the development cycle, you can create performance test assets for your application in Rational® Performance Tester. You can then run those tests from UrbanCode™ Deploy.

You must use the Rational® Performance Tester UCD plugin to integrate Rational® Performance Tester with UrbanCode™ Deploy. Integrating Rational® Performance Tester with UrbanCode™ Deploy automates the process of test runs. If you have many tests to run at regular intervals, you can use UrbanCode™ Deploy to initiate test runs automatically.

The following table lists the tasks that you must perform to run performance test assets from UrbanCode™ Deploy:

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Install Rational® Performance Tester. Installing Rational Performance Tester.

If you installed Rational® Performance Tester on the Mac operating system, you must have added TEST_WORKBENCH_HOME as an environment variable. You must have pointed that environment variable to the installation directory of Rational® Performance Tester.

Note: On Windows® and Linux™ operating systems, the TEST_WORKBENCH_HOME environment variable is set after the installation of Rational® Performance Tester is complete.
Create any or all the following types of test assets in Rational® Performance Tester to test your application:
  • Compound tests
  • Performance tests
  • Schedules (Rate or VU Schedules)
 Test Author Guide.
Install UrbanCode™ Deploy with at least one agent. IBM UrbanCode™ Deploy documentation.

System requirements for information about specific versions of UrbanCode™ Deploy requirements.
Install the IBM® Rational® Performance Tester UCD plugin on UrbanCode™ Deploy. Installing the plugin on UrbanCode Deploy.
Create a Component in UrbanCode™ Deploy. Creating a component in UrbanCode Deploy.
Create a Process for the component in UrbanCode™ Deploy. Creating a process in UrbanCode Deploy.
Configure the Process that you created for the component in UrbanCode™ Deploy. Configuring the process.
Create a Resource in UrbanCode™ Deploy. Creating a resource in UrbanCode Deploy.
Configure the Resource. Configuring the resource.
Create an Application in UrbanCode™ Deploy. Creating an application in UrbanCode Deploy.
Configure the Application that you want to use to run performance test assets from UrbanCode™ Deploy. Configuring the application.
Run the test assets from UrbanCode™ Deploy. Running tests from UrbanCode Deploy.