Performance and service testing with Rational Team Concert

IBM® Rational® Performance Tester can be integrated with IBM Rational Team Concert. You can manage performance and service test assets with Jazz™ source control management. You must have a compatible version of Rational Team Concert server set up to use Jazz source control management. To use Rational Team Concert as the source control management tool for managing performance or service test assets, you must install Rational Team Concert version 2.0.0.2 iFix5 or later.

Introduction

You can use Rational Team Concert to connect to compatible Jazz servers, including Rational Team Concert servers and Rational Quality Manager servers.

Use this feature to do these tasks:

If you have installed the Rational Team Concert client, see Getting started to learn more about using Rational Team Concert.

The client version and server version of Rational Team Concert must match. See the Rational Team Concert information center to learn more about server and client version compatibility.

To access Jazz work items, use the Work Items view in the Work Items perspective. To switch to the Work Items perspective, click Window > Open Perspective > Work Items.

Rational Performance Tester version 8.2 does not include the Jazz Eclipse Client as an optional feature. The Jazz Eclipse Client was provided as an optional feature in earlier versions of Rational Performance Tester.

To install and manage Rational Performance Tester assets with Rational Team Concert, you must install Rational Performance Tester in the same package group as Rational Team Concert.

Installing Rational Team Concert client version 2.0.0.2 iFix5 or later

Set up a compatible version of Rational Team Concert server.

You must have a Jazz.net account to download Rational Team Concert client. Register for a Jazz.net account at https://jazz.net/pub/user/register.jsp.

Rational Performance Tester version 8.2 is not compatible with releases of Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 prior to iFix5. Do not attempt to install Rational Team Concert version 2.0.0.2 iFix4 or earlier in the same package group as Rational Performance Tester version 8.2 or later.

  1. Install Rational Performance Tester version 8.2.
    Note: If a previous version of Rational Team Concert client is installed on the same computer, you must install Rational Performance Tester in a different package group.
  2. On the Installation Manager repository preferences page, add the Rational Team Concert client version 2.0.0.2 iFix5 (or later) repository to point to http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/rationalsdp/rtc/v2/client_ext/updates/.
  3. Install Rational Team Concert client version 2.0.0.2 iFix5 (or later) in the same package group as Rational Performance Tester version 8.2.
  4. When the Password Required window for Jazz.net is displayed, type your Jazz.net user name and password.

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