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Performance Tester

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Deliver signed eclipse.exe with Rational test tool packages

Security policies on government provided laptops allow only approved applications to be run elevated. The eclipse.exe delivered and installed as part RPT is unsigned. Every time a new, unsigned version of eclipse.exe is included in a tool upgrade,...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 1 Future consideration

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports.

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports. Use case is to provide a mechanism to exclude statistics for Pages/Request used for polling (heartbeat), setup, teardown, etc. Specific use case: The solutio...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 1 Future consideration

Allow specifying a resolution for RPT Citrix-recording via Web

Currently you have to start the remote desktop session with the same resolution that you want the Citrix recording to happen at. When recording via ICA file you can already choose the resolution. It's very inconvenient to have to log off and log b...
about 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 0 Future consideration

Creating JDBC requests in Rational Performance Tester

RPT should support creating a JDBC requests to perform the database testing plan unline how Jmeter support it. Ref: https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/build-db-test-plan.html
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 2 Future consideration

Need to have Smart Card support restored for Rational Performance Tester

Beyond versions 9.5, smart card support was removed from the products due to a transition with the underlying JRE. Support for Smart Cards remains a requirement for US government clients and should be restored as quickly as possible.
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 3 Not under consideration

pre-populate Test->Recording->Proxy Recording filters with well known junk domains

RPT allows the use of filters when recording to filter out domains at recording time so they don't have to be filtered out at test generation time. The problem is this list is empty, and a bit tricky to use Refer to junk1.jpg for the Preference in...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 0 Not under consideration

Japanese pdf documents should be prepared

Even if click each link from "Product documentation in PDF format" page selected Japanese laungage, the pdf documents are opened in English.These pdf document should be opened in Japanese as well. https://help.blueproddoc.com/rationaltest/rational...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 0 Future consideration

Have an option to automatically delete browser hitory when doing a HTTP reording

Every time I do a http recording it's best practice to delete browing history, even cookies, in fact RPT tells us so, see first picture. Why not have a check box somewhere on this dialog in second picture
almost 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 6 Not under consideration

RPT reporting 0ms in measurements

Currently, RPT can only report times in millisecond precision. Anything below gets rounded up or down. In most cases this is fine. However, it becomes problematic when the time is less than 1ms, where RPT reports 0ms instead. We do not think it is...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 4 Not under consideration

Additional error handling functionality for unattended test runs

As originally discussed on the forums, it was suggested to submit a RFE. (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=7c067db9-35f8-4936-8d86-c29d9848a9e8) We are looking for a solution to automatically stop/exit the test whe...
over 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 5 Not under consideration