Rational Performance Test Server

Apply complex performance test scenarios

• Take advantage of a sophisticated yet easy-to-use workload schedule and test engine.
• Use load stage modeling to simulate workloads that change over time. You can collect and compare performance metrics for each stage to analyze multiple scenarios in a single test run.
• Reuse functional integration tests and blend different interactions to view performance of all components in your composite application.
• Validate application service-level agreements (SLAs) and quality of results at the end of a test run. You can specify criteria at the request, web page and transaction level, or server health resource counters.

Identify and manage run-time problems

• Track real-time events in a multiple-user test run to discover and manage run-time problems. You can also define and identify run-time conditions that could invalidate test results.
• Monitor test event alerts and virtual user activity in real time, and analyze activity in detail.
• Correlate server resource statistics with response time measurements to assess server health and identify resource bottlenecks.
• Gather data from a variety of web and application servers, databases, Java virtual machines (JVMs), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices, and Windows and Linux performance monitoring tools.

Accelerate analysis of test results

• Generate performance and throughput reports in real time to detect performance problems at any point in a test run.
• Use multiple filtering and configuration options for reports that can be set before, during and after a test run.
• Review performance trends from one build to another.
• Use additional reports to conduct deeper analysis of test results such as response time percentile distributions.

Benefit from integration with other tools

• Integrates with IBM Rational Application Performance Analyzer to help you identify performance problems down to the web application code level.
• Provides support for a broad set of web and enterprise applications such as Ajax and Dojo, SAP, Citrix, Oracle E-Business Suite and integration technology from TIBCO, Software AG and more.
• Integrates with IBM Rational Quality Manager and collaborative lifecycle management (CLM) to ensure alignment with business objectives and visibility into quality management activities.