This release of Rational® Performance Tester includes
a number of new features.
Rational Performance Tester 8.3
includes these new features or enhancements:
- Enhancements to reports
- You can view reports and control schedule execution remotely from
a web browser without installing Rational Performance Tester workbench.
For more information, see the Accessing
reports remotely topic.
- You use embedded web browser to create new reports, customize
reports, and export them. For more information, see the Evaluate
results in a web browser topic.
- Enhancements to Rational Performance Tester Agent
- A new Load Generation agent is available to generate load on the
system under test. For more information, see the Working with agents topic.
- The Rational Agent Controller is used to gather data for the Response
Time Breakdown feature and in support of the startup and control of
web services stubs in the SOA protocol. The Rational Agent Controller
cannot be used to apply load in version 8.3.
- You can check the status of the agents from workbench. You can
also share an agent with another workbench. For more information,
see the Checking status of agents topic.
- Support for new web browsers such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari,
and Opera.
- Rational Performance Tester supports
recording and playback for applications developed on Microsoft Silverlight
and Google Web Toolkit. For more information, see the Microsoft Silverlight and Google
web toolkit topics.
- Manually create a Microsoft .NET transport configuration to describe
the transport settings for service requests that use the Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF) protocol. For more information, see the Creating Microsoft .NET transport configurations topic.
- Support for Citrix XenApp version 6.5 and Citrix XenDesktop version
5.6.
- Check the data correlation errors in the new Data Correlation
tab of the Test Log editor. For more information, see the View
test logs topic.
- For Generic Service Client, add static XML headers to service
requests to ensure compliance with WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging,
WS-Coordination specifications as well as other predefined standards.
For more information, see the Adding static XML headers to a service request topic.
- Remove the deployment directory automatically from the Rational Performance Tester Agent
computer after the schedule execution. For more information, see the Manage
deployment directory for agents topic.