[Tutorial] Getting started now with Rational Performance Tester 9.1.0

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Author: Yendra Waney (Gunang)

Download and install Rational Performance Tester Starter Edition. Read the instructions in the IBM Knowledge Center chapter Installing Rational Performance Tester ...

Skipping performance testing is not an option. Before your web application goes live, you want to know whether your application meets the performance requirements.

In most cases, you want to know how your application behaves when a certain number of users connect to your application. Afterward, when performance issues arise, you want to know the cause.Performance testing helps you to discover what factor determines the rate, the “bottleneck”.

To read more and start now with Rational Performance Tester, see the attached document RPTGettingStartedNow.pdf.

RPTGettingStartedNow.pdf

Contents
Chapter 1: Start with Rational Performance Tester.............................................5
Start now............................................................................................................................................................... 6
Chapter 2: Performance testing............................................................................11
Rational Performance Tester...............................................................................................................................12
Chapter 3: Installation details...............................................................................13
Chapter 4: Testing workflow.................................................................................15
Setting performance requirements......................................................................................................................16
Verifying the recorded baseline at playback...................................................................................................... 16
Chapter 5: User load simulation...........................................................................19
Putting more users into a test.............................................................................................................................20
Setting user load stages...................................................................................................................................... 20
Chapter 6: Test results........................................................................................... 23
Glossary.......................................................................................................................................... 25
Index................................................................................................................................................27