This release of Rational® Performance Tester includes a number of new features.
Rational Performance Tester 8.2.1 includes these new features or enhancements:
- Usability improvements have been made to the test-splitting function.
- Packet details are displayed in the recording session editor.
- Recording session files can be encrypted.
- Significant enhancements have been made to the data correlation
rules editor.
- Data correlation rules can be automatically created as you manually
edit a test.
- Potential data correlation errors are now detected and displayed.
- Searches in tests can match encoded and decoded values of the
specified text.
- Random numbers can be generated as built-in data sources.
- Binary data can be automatically transformed when a test is generated.
- You can monitor the progress of a test-log transfer when a test
run stops.
- Error handling support now includes custom verification point
failures and any user-defined conditions that are detected in custom
code.
- You can pass literal strings as arguments to custom code.
- You can change the schedule stage duration during a run.
- Enhanced data correlation enables you to use any data source at
run time to control test parameters such as think times, delays, loop
conditions, transaction names, and content verification strings.
- HTTP tests now have built-in data transformation support for the
Action Message Format 3 (AMF 3) protocol that Flex applications use.
- Recording HTTP traffic can be blocked for specified hosts.
- HTTP applications that do not support SOCKS or HTTP proxies can
be recorded using an enhanced socket recorder.
- Browser cache emulation is now supported in HTTP tests, and new
statistical counters have been added to monitor cache behavior, including
hit ratios.
- Dynamic redirect requests are automatically followed at playback
time to support common usage patterns such as load balancing.
- Reports can display the effect of connection and client delays
on page response time.
- Custom counters can be aggregated from multiple agent computers.
- More events can be displayed on the execution event console.
- You can collect resource monitoring data from Apache HTTP Server,
Oracle Database, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) sources.
- You can collect response time breakdown data from the 64-bit versions
of IBM® WebSphere® Application Server versions 6.1
and 7.0 and WebLogic Server versions 9 and 10.
- New Citrix testing features have been added:
- Citrix XenDesktop is supported
- Citrix XenApp 6 is supported.
- New SAP testing features have been added:
- SAP Scripting settings on the server are logged when you record
or run tests.
- Error handling is supported for connection failures, content verification
points, and server timeouts.
- New SOA testing features have been added:
- Improvements have been made to Web Services Description Language
(WSDL) file handling to make it easier to store SOA tests in source-control
management tools.
- GZIP content encoding is now supported.
- Verification points to validate server responses against an XML
schema are now supported.
- URL binding information is now saved in the test log.
- Usability and logging improvements have been made to the generic
service client.
- A new socket testing feature has been added: Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) is supported.