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Rational® Performance Tester
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.
Integration with other products
You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Configuration of test runs as a GitHub Actions Workflow
You can configure test runs of test resources that are in Rational® Performance Tester in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in the project in the GitHub Workflow when you want to run the test resources without opening the Rational Performance Tester.
Prerequisites to run tests in a GitHub Actions Workflow
Before you can configure a test run for any test resources that are in Rational® Performance Tester, you must complete certain tasks to run the test resources in a GitHub Actions Workflow.

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 product, 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
    Installation of 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, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
  - 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 IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
    - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
      You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with Rational® Performance Tester.
    - Running tests by using Ant
      When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
    - Integration with Azure DevOps
      When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
    - Integration with Apache JMeter
      You can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run JMeter tests.
    - EGit integration
      You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
    - Configuration of test runs as a GitHub Actions Workflow
      You can configure test runs of test resources that are in Rational® Performance Tester in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in the project in the GitHub Workflow when you want to run the test resources without opening the Rational Performance Tester.
      - Prerequisites to run tests in a GitHub Actions Workflow
        Before you can configure a test run for any test resources that are in Rational® Performance Tester, you must complete certain tasks to run the test resources in a GitHub Actions Workflow.
      - Configuring a test run in a GitHub Actions Workflow
        After you complete the prerequisite tasks to run tests in a GitHub Actions Workflow, you can configure the test run in a GitHub Actions Workflow.
    - Integration with Engineering Test Management
      You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Performance Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
    - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
      You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.
    - Integration with IBM® Rational® Integration Tester
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to run integration tests from Rational Performance Tester. You can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Performance Tester by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
    - 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.
    - Integration of Jaeger with the product
      Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
    - Integration with Jenkins
      You can use the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
    - Testing with Maven
      Starting from 9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
    - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
      You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
- 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)
  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.

Prerequisites to run tests in a GitHub Actions Workflow

Before you can configure a test run for any test resources that are in Rational® Performance Tester, you must complete certain tasks to run the test resources in a GitHub Actions Workflow.

You must complete the following tasks in Rational® Performance Tester:

Created a test. See Creating tests.
Opened and viewed the details of the test resources that you want to run in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You must make a note of the test resource details that are in Rational® Performance Tester.

You will require the following details of the test resource on your system that must be provided in the YAML file for the GitHub Action:
- The complete path to the Eclipse workspace.
- The name of the project containing the test.
- The relative path from the project to the test including the file name of the test.

You must complete the following tasks outside of Rational® Performance Tester:

Create an empty Git repository on any GitHub Enterprise server, if you do not already use Git repositories to store the test resources that you create. For more information about creating Git repositories, refer to Creating a new repository.

If you are already using Git repositories to store test resources created, you can use the same Git repositories.

Note: You must have the required privileges in the Git repository to create a GitHub Actions Workflow.
Enable the GitHub Actions option in the Git repository, if it is not available as an option to use. For more information about enabling the GitHub Actions, refer to Learn about GitHub Actions.
You must be familiar with setting up self-hosted runners on your computer. For more information, refer to Adding self-hosted runners.

You can continue to configure a run as a GitHub action, see Configuring a test run in a GitHub Actions Workflow.