Basic of Rational Performance Tester

Rational Performance Tester is a performance test creation, execution and analysis tool for validating the scalability and reliability of Web-based applications. It combines a simple-to-use test recorder with advanced scheduling, real-time reporting, automated data variation and a highly scalable execution engine to ensure applications are prepared to handle large user loads. Rational Performance Tester is one of the leading Performance Testing tools today. The primary features of it are:
- Multi-user performance testing for Web-based applications
- Visual editor delivering both high-level and detailed test views
- Flexible modeling and emulation of diverse user populations
- Low memory and processor footprint, enabling large multi-user tests with limited hardware resources
- Real-time reporting to enable immediate recognition of performance problems
- Automatic identification of and support for dynamic server responses
- Automated test data variation
- Dynamic variation of user load during the test
- Collection and visualization of server resource data Highlights
- Browser-like display of each Web page within a test
- Permits custom Java code insertion Java code insertion for flexible test customization
- Windows and Linux-hosted test execution

Protocol Supported:
- HTTP, HTTPS
- Socket
- SAP
- Siebel
- Citrix

Platform Supported:
Rational Performance Tester
Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and Vista
Linux
Rational Performance Tester Agent
Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and Vista
Linux, UNIX, AIX

Components of Rational Performance Tester
Proxy Recorder
Report Generation Engine
Editor
Test Schedule
Agents
Execution Engine