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Performance Tester

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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...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 0 Not under 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
over 3 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...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 5 Not under consideration

Export project discards library and order history of Generic Service Client

For REST / SOA service testing, RPT feeds a request library (requisitions) as well as a history of executing these requests during the development of the test script. Protocol settings are also created for authenticated services and / or you use S...
over 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 3 Not under consideration

RTW compound Test : User scenario enhancement

When user need to execute a compound test user1. add multiple scripts in to the compound tests2. user need to modify multiple parameters from the script 2 to script n....before the execution of the script.i had added a sample list of parameters ( ...
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Performance Tester / Workbench 4 Not under consideration

Please implement URL encryption feature powered by Wicket Crypt

In Apache project, there is a package called "org.apache.wicket.util.crypt" which can encrypt/decrypt URL in the HTTP communication between HTTP client and server. URLs might be encrypted dynamically by using session as a seed. To handling this fe...
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 3 Not under consideration

Passing performance iterations and load from outside of RIT

Currently we can provide performance test iterations and load only from RIT and we cannot control it from outside of test something like Jenkins. This is very much required for complete end to end automation of performance tests. This is a blocker...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester / Virtualization Server 2 Not under consideration

RTWW – Make “Protocol & features” screen mandatory for “newtests”

While creating a new RTWW test of type “NewTest” it is mandatory for the user to select either of these options. If he is not selecting “mobile and webUIfeatures” then he will not be able to perform adding any application in the consequent screen....
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Performance Tester 3 Not under consideration