IBM Rational Performance Tester provides test authoring, execution, and analysis for enterprise applications. IBM documentation and product availability should be checked for current licensing.
About
IBM Rational Performance Tester is a performance testing software tool designed to validate the scalability, reliability, and performance of web, ERP, and server-based applications before deployment. It provides capabilities for test creation, execution, and analysis, including root-cause analysis to identify performance bottlenecks. It is now often referred to or succeeded by IBM DevOps Test Performance.
Features
- Supports testing for protocols including HTTP, SAP, Siebel, SIP, TCP Socket, and Citrix
- Scalable execution engine
- Integration with remote system resource monitoring (CPU, memory, etc.)
- Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, UNIX, mainframe)
Pricing
Pricing models include Authorized User, Floating, Token, and Processor Value Unit (PVU) licenses. Specific pricing is not publicly disclosed on official product pages.
Author / Company
IBM
AI features
- Automated data variation
- Flexible modeling and emulation of diverse user populations
- Real-time reporting and performance metrics
- Root-cause analysis to pinpoint source code and physical tier bottlenecks
- Scriptless test creation/recording
Latest release
10.5.3 · 2023-06-20
Version 10.5.3 contains new features and fixes for customer-reported and internally found defects.
Sources
- DevOps Test Performance - DevOps Test | IBM ↗
- [PDF] IBM Rational Performance Tester ↗
- Rational Performance Tester Overview ↗
- Rational Integration Tester, Rational Test Virtualization Server, Rational Performance Test Server 10.5.3 ↗
- IBMRationalPerformance Tester ↗
- [PDF] IBM Rational Performance Tester ↗
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