Rational Performance Tester, Version 8.2.1

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Rational Performance Tester is a performance testing tool used to identify the presence and cause of system performance bottlenecks.

Note: Rollback from version 8.2.1 to versions 8.2.0.5 or earlier is not supported. To work around this issue, install Rational Performance Tester, Version 8.2.0.6 before you install Version 8.2.1. Then you will be able to roll back from version 8.2.1 to version 8.2.0.6, and then roll back from version 8.2.0.6 to an earlier version of the product, if necessary.

• Usability improvements have been made to the test-splitting function.
• Packet details are displayed in the recording session editor.
• Recording session files can be encrypted.
• Significant enhancements have been made to the data correlation rules editor.
• Data correlation rules can be automatically created as you manually edit a test.
• Potential data correlation errors are now detected and displayed.
• Searches in tests can match encoded and decoded values of the specified text.
• Random numbers can be generated as built-in data sources.
• Binary data can be automatically transformed when a test is generated.
• You can monitor the progress of a test-log transfer when a test run stops.
• Error handling support now includes custom verification point failures and any user-defined conditions that are detected in custom code.
• You can pass literal strings as arguments to custom code.
• You can change the schedule stage duration during a run.
• Enhanced data correlation enables you to use any data source at run time to control test parameters such as think times, delays, loop conditions, transaction names, and content verification strings.
• HTTP tests now have built-in data transformation support for the Action Message Format 3 (AMF 3) protocol that Flex applications use.
• Recording HTTP traffic can be blocked for specified hosts.
• HTTP applications that do not support SOCKS or HTTP proxies can be recorded using an enhanced socket recorder.
• Browser cache emulation is now supported in HTTP tests, and new statistical counters have been added to monitor cache behavior, including hit ratios.
• Dynamic redirect requests are automatically followed at playback time to support common usage patterns such as load balancing.
• Reports can display the effect of connection and client delays on page response time.
• Custom counters can be aggregated from multiple agent computers.
• More events can be displayed on the execution event console.
• You can collect resource monitoring data from Apache HTTP Server, Oracle Database, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) sources.
• You can collect response time breakdown data from the 64-bit versions of IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 6.1 and 7.0 and WebLogic Server versions 9 and 10.
• New Citrix testing features have been added:
• Citrix XenDesktop is supported
• Citrix XenApp 6 is supported.
• New SAP testing features have been added:
• SAP Scripting settings on the server are logged when you record or run tests.
• Error handling is supported for connection failures, content verification points, and server timeouts.
• New SOA testing features have been added:
• Improvements have been made to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file handling to make it easier to store SOA tests in source-control management tools.
• GZIP content encoding is now supported.
• Verification points to validate server responses against an XML schema are now supported.
• URL binding information is now saved in the test log.
• Usability and logging improvements have been made to the generic service client.
• A new socket testing feature has been added: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is supported.