IBM® Rational® Performance Tester® can help facilitate every aspect of effective system performance testing: planning, test design, automated and manual creation of performance test suites, execution against various configurations, reporting and analysis.

This tool provides support for the activities of the following team members: Test Manager, Test Analyst, Test Designer and Tester.

To gain the full benefits from this tool, users need to have the following skills:-

• Testing

Training for this tool can be found in the following courses:-

• Essentials of IBM Rational Performance Tester

To help enable businesses to test system performance efficiently, the IBM Rational Performance Tester:-

• Helps to verify that an application meets or exceeds its response criteria when tested pre-deployment, in production operating environments and under heavy loads
• Has an advanced scheduler that enables testers to emulate complex user behavior without programming
• Points to the source of performance problems, such as a strained CPU or network issues, and reports them graphically
• Enables reuse of functional test scripts in load testing and in production monitoring with IBM Tivoli® Monitoring for Transaction Performance software (sold separately)
• Scales from a few to thousands of users, which are called Virtual Testers; ships with 50 Virtual Testers?additional Virtual Tester packs are available separately
• Offers as an added option IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SQL, which enables performance testing of relational databases