This release of Rational® Performance Tester supports
the following new features:
- The new recording framework supports a number of new features,
including recording tests with an HTTP or SOCKS proxy, recording service
tests with the socket recorder, and selecting or creating Firefox
profiles before recording.
- The new recording framework provides a protocol traffic graph
with real-time display of the amount of data recorded.
- The test annotation toolbar is now displayed in a floating window.
- The test annotation toolbar supports all protocols and provides
screen-capture annotations.
- You can copy and paste pages and page elements in HTTP tests.
- You can use the rules editor to write customized data correlation
rules.
- You can also partially or totally disable automatic data correlation.
- You can see a global view of all references in a test.
- Test search-and-replace supports regular expressions.
- Content verification points support a wider variety of conditions.
- User groups support fractional percentages.
- In error handling, you can specify an action to take and a message
to log when a specified condition occurs.
- You can add custom verification point counters to reports.
- You can collect resource monitoring data from Apache Tomcat and
Java Virtual Machines.
- You can collect response time breakdown data from IBM WebSphere
Application Server versions 6.1 and 7.0, and WebLogic Server versions
9 and 10.
- A sequence diagram view is now available, with which you can see
and trace application method calls.
- You can collect response time breakdown for SOA tests.
- You can collect response time breakdown for plain old Java object
(POJO) calls, improving analysis of Web 2.0 applications that use
POJOs that are running in containers.
- New Citrix testing features:
- You can debug a Citrix test by comparing the actual synchronizations
to the expected synchronizations.
- XenApp 5 and the Online Plug-in Version 11.2 are now supported.
- New SAP testing features:
- SAP batch input tests now use the SAP Java connector version 3.0.
- You can split SAP batch input tests.
- SAP batch input tests now support an advanced connection mode
for configuring a SAProuter.
- New SOA testing features:
- Usability improvements have been made to custom security algorithms
and to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file handling.
- Key stores support the privacy enhanced mail (PEM) format.
- You can store HTTP host and port information in variables.
- You can collect counters for the last byte received, so that you
can calculate the request transmission time.
- New socket testing features:
- The TN3270 protocol is now supported, including visualization
and response validation of 3270 applications.